The Post-Separation Abuse Podcast

114. The good girl contract - part two: The moth and the flame

The Post-Separation Abuse Podcast

Show Notes

Their woundedness was a moth to a flame to your overfunctioning. Part 2 of The Good Girl Contract walks through what happened when you took the Contract into your adult intimate relationships. Why the men who found you were not random. Why your nervous system recognised them as home. Why leaving felt so much harder than the surface story would suggest - and why so much of what has been sold to you as insight about your ex has been missing the more important insight about you...

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