Listen "Loving Connection: Overcoming Differences Through Vulnerability and Compassion with Lauren Pick"
Episode Synopsis
This episode discusses how to maintain loving connections with people despite differences in perspectives or disagreements. Lauren Pick shares a vulnerable moment from her therapy practice where a client felt misunderstood after an emotional outburst, but Lauren responded with even more love and empathy. She emphasizes the importance of drawing closer together rather than separating during conflicts.
Lauren discusses relationship dynamics and how disagreements don't need to divide people if they are willing to work through issues with curiosity rather than avoidance. Connecting during conflicts requires seeing the disagreement itself as a separate entity rather than each other. Speaker 1 agrees and notes this allows focusing on the relationship itself rather than individuals.
Lauren also provides an example of vulnerability in her own therapy session and how matching that vulnerability with openness and care can help clients release tension and connect on a deeper level. Postpartum care is discussed, highlighting the need to meet new mothers where they are at by providing information gradually to build trust and comfort.
The talk explores how prioritizing information over connection has imbalanced modern communication skills. Emotional intelligence is framed as a kind of wealth passed down through families via modeling communication skills. While these skills lie dormant within all people, conscious practices like eye contact and breath awareness can help activate deeper human connection.
Lauren's Bio:
Lauren Pick is a psychotherapist who focuses on grief, trauma and life transitions.
This is her story and what she has personally worked with.
She studied and is from Louisiana.
She’s been practicing for 12 years and works with clients in Lincoln NE.
She is a yoga teacher, a mind/body dance and fitness instructor.
She is a mom to two children and she is a passionate supporter of postpartum caregiving.
http://www.laurenpick.com
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Lauren discusses relationship dynamics and how disagreements don't need to divide people if they are willing to work through issues with curiosity rather than avoidance. Connecting during conflicts requires seeing the disagreement itself as a separate entity rather than each other. Speaker 1 agrees and notes this allows focusing on the relationship itself rather than individuals.
Lauren also provides an example of vulnerability in her own therapy session and how matching that vulnerability with openness and care can help clients release tension and connect on a deeper level. Postpartum care is discussed, highlighting the need to meet new mothers where they are at by providing information gradually to build trust and comfort.
The talk explores how prioritizing information over connection has imbalanced modern communication skills. Emotional intelligence is framed as a kind of wealth passed down through families via modeling communication skills. While these skills lie dormant within all people, conscious practices like eye contact and breath awareness can help activate deeper human connection.
Lauren's Bio:
Lauren Pick is a psychotherapist who focuses on grief, trauma and life transitions.
This is her story and what she has personally worked with.
She studied and is from Louisiana.
She’s been practicing for 12 years and works with clients in Lincoln NE.
She is a yoga teacher, a mind/body dance and fitness instructor.
She is a mom to two children and she is a passionate supporter of postpartum caregiving.
http://www.laurenpick.com
Are you feeling the call to know more about Conscious Postpartum Care?
Learn about our programs at www.sacredwindowstudies.com
Follow us on Instagram at @sacredwindowstudies
Facebook at @AyurvedaForPostpartum
Join our Facebook Group
Reach out! Schedule a time with Christine to find out if our programs are a good fit for you!
Here is the link to out free class
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