Decoding Relationships by Jen Parrella

This is one of my favorite topics! In this episode I talk about anger and where it come from. I describe stories about people affected by anger, as well as the downfalls of avoiding expressing vulnerable emotions. I also talk about how to deconstruct anger and change how we are expressing ourselves to the world, in order to connect with others in a healthier way.

In this episode I talk about overt and covert control in relationships. I talk about the behaviors associated with covert control as well as how it affects partners. I address about how to fix it and what healthy relationships without control look like!

Daily life, weekends, date nights, and vacations: All will be happier, and less likely to result in hurt feelings, when we make expressing expectations and planning/scheduling with our partner a priority.

This episode of Surviving Coronavirus is about how to structure our homes so that everybody has a workspace. The boundaries and structure we create at home can save our relationships!

In this episode I teach you about the perfect apology. Particularly, I talked about laying the sod… How to say you are sorry, on what you did, and say what you will do differently. The more we can apologize genuinely the happier our relationships will be!

We talk about the 3 more couples representing the patterns of anger, ignoring, and control, and how they also interfere with sex and closeness.

In this episode I describe how intimacy is broken down into three parts: (1) physical intimacy, (2) emotional intimacy, and (3) emotional safety. Additionally, I describe five relationship patterns that interfere with intimacy through stories of of actual couples I've worked with.

Hi! Can’t wait to connect with you all! Send me messages if you have topics you are interested in, otherwise I am going to talk about different relationship patterns I see in couples on the therapy couch!