Breaking the Cycle of Pain

It’s been said that relationships are containers for growth and that, while we’re hurt in relationships, we heal in relationships too. But it’s a lot easier to accept this concept as true than it is to embrace it in real life.

It’s hard to feel triggered by behavior that activates our childhood wounds—when someone ignores our needs or minimizes our feelings, for example—and create space to recognize that our pain goes deeper than that one individual encounter.