Episode 2 - Free Your Dating Life From the Influence of Your Unresolved Traumas

In this second episode of Free Your People, we will discuss how trauma influences our dating life and give some tips on how to enter the right relationship for you and feel fulfilled and connected in a relationship. You will learn: 

• The importance of self-awareness to avoid sabotaging your relationships
• Discovering you might not know yourself, your needs or what a healthy relationship
• How toxic relationships can be an opportunity to learn more about ourselves once we are out of them and choose ourselves
• Recognising we can be the insecure or toxic one in a relationship
• Why it is important to follow your intuition and do this on your own pace and not let family, community or society rush you into relationships that are not for you
• Why it is important to heal yourself so as not to bring toxicity into your relationships
• How relationships can be an opportunity to discover our triggers, heal from our past traumas if we do the work
• Accepting we don’t know what a healthy, loving relationship looks like and committing ourselves to learning a different way
• Why it is important to do the work to know ourselves better, what we stand for, our boundaries, love language, etc.
• Why it is important to prioritize taking care of ourselves and prioritizing our space and practise loving ourselves so that when we enter a relationship we can show the other person how we want to be loved
• Building community around us we can reach out to for compassionate advice, going to therapy when needed
• And so much more..!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman
•  Miriam Njoku 
• Candace Career Clarity exercise website
• Free Your People website