Soulful Insights

What is it that determines if a behaviour or a pattern is an addiction or just habitual? In this episode, Ruth and Rebecca explore ideas around addiction. They chat about some of the defining features of addictive behaviour, some of the causes and its potential impact. They also speak about some of the shifts that need to occur to understand, and heal from an addiction and again, advocate strongly for the employment of self-compassion.

 Grief is a universal human emotion, but not an easy one to traverse. In this episode Rebecca and Ruth chat about the nature of grief and some of its theoretical stages, and they discuss factors which may impact how we move through a passage of grief. They share some of their personal experiences and subsequent insights, explore why different individuals might respond uniquely to loss, and speak about forgiveness.

In this, the tenth Soulful Insights episode, Ruth and Rebecca investigate intimacy. They offer their take on what intimacy is, and discuss the idea that levels of intimacy exist upon a continuum. Rebecca and Ruth chat about the components they believe might need to be present for intimacy to develop, speak about the nature of intimacy that exists within a therapeutic relationship, and also explore what some of the barriers to intimacy might be.

People pleasing - is it something you do? A pattern you're trying to shift? In this episode Rebecca and Ruth chat about people pleasing and how and why it may develop as a protective mechanism. They chat about what some of the behaviours look like, what happens when it persists and speak about some of the factors that can be involved in moving beyond it.

In this second episode on the Family of Origin, Rebecca and Ruth chat about familial expectations, the assumption that we always feel a close bond with other family members, and the idea of 'chosen family'. They speak about conscious parenting, about their respective journeys toward being parents, and they explore how we might consciously establish new patterns of relating that are different from those we experienced growing up.

Why is our Family of Origin so significant in shaping who we are and how we relate? In this episode Ruth and Bec chat about the ideal environment for the developing small person and how patterns of relating in our early years impact our future relationships. They touch briefly on Attachment Theory, and speak about the fact that despite patterns being often unconscious, they can be transformed.