Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After — Why Breakups Become Battles
A breakup can end a relationship while keeping its emotional system alive.
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After by Katherine Woodward Thomas as our lens, this episode investigates why the end of a romantic relationship can activate fear, shame, anger, obsessive attachment, blame, and retaliation—and how those reactions can begin reinforcing one another.
Thomas challenges the assumption that a relationship ending automatically means it failed. Her five-step Conscious Uncoupling process…
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