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Transforming Domination Culture from the Inside Out

Where can I help you get unstuck?

April 23, 2024 By Angela Watrous

Illustration of person sitting alone in a deep rut.

Dear one, have you been feeling stuck lately?

—Are there painful memories or thoughts looping in your head, hurting you over and over?

—Do parts of your life get consistently neglected because it hurts to turn toward them?

—Are repeating relational patterns wearing you down?

—Do your biggest dreams keep getting back-burnered?

If yes, I have so much tenderness for the pain and frustration of your stuck places. Are you’re longing for movement, relief, and the joy of unencumbered progress?

How we respond to obstacles has everything to do with our experience of early challenges. What do you do when you get stuck?

If your family or school systems used harshness as motivation, you may berate yourself and call it “tough love.”

If as a child you found yourself alone without guidance when things were too hard for you to handle on your own, you may collapse, panic, or give up at the first obstacle.

If your early environments tried to coerce you with rewards and punishments—rather than accompany you with loving, attuned guidance—you may attempt those same uninspiring approaches with yourself and wonder why you can’t make them work.

And if your familiar approaches don’t work again, perhaps you try to convince yourself what you want just isn’t in the cards for you, and sink into chronic numbness or depression or anger.

What allows us to take forward movement from even our most entrenched stuck places is warm, responsive attunement and guidance, both in the current moment and in the past moments where our life energy got stuck in the first place.

If you’re ready to receive the warmth, support, and healing guidance your stuck places need, I’m here. Together, we can explore and lovingly tend the stuckness, with gentle curiosity, fierce protection, and new strategies that respond to what you truly need.

Message me today to schedule your exploratory session. There’s room in my heart and my calendar for one new weekly client and one new biweekly client, and I would love for one of those to be you!

Much love and empathy,
Angela

Filed Under: Collaboration, Companionship, Empathy, Resonant Empathy, Uncategorized, Warm Resonant Support

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