{"id":11939,"date":"2018-07-24T06:44:35","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awakening-com-au.us.stackstaging.com\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2018-07-24T06:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T06:44:35","slug":"islandorwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/2018\/07\/24\/islandorwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You an Island or a Wave?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Soothing Each Others Nervous System in Relationship<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">by Brenda Sutherland<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Winter is a time of regrouping, revisioning, renewing as we are asked to go inwards and assess what is working and what is not, at the same time rest. Over the last weeks I have witnessed many couples fighting more than usual, separating or contemplating separation. One of the key factors missing in staying connected and creating a secure functioning relationship\u00a0is understanding how to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Keep each other safe \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02. Stay connected daily<br \/>\n3. Soothe each others nervous system \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 4. Misreading cues<br \/>\n5. Identify each others attachment styles \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a06. Protect\u00a0vulnerabilities<br \/>\n7. Manage Thirds (Competing Forces) \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These are only a few!<\/p>\n<p>The missing information, is its\u00a0not personal, it is psychobiological.<\/p>\n<p>How do you trigger your partner off? As Stan Tatkin author of &#8216;Wired for Love&#8217;\u00a0puts it<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;There are\u00a0No Angels, No Devils in relationships&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If your partner is an\u00a0Island (Avoidant) do you give them an escape route when you ask them to connect, or demand they hop off their island immediately? <strong>Key:<\/strong> Give them an escape route: i.e. <em>&#8220;When you are ready&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to stop you from what you are doing but before you go could you hug me&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The reality is Islands need an OUT (as they are auto-regulators &#8211; I do me) and need an exit route to be available.<\/p>\n<p>If your partner is a Wave (Anxious\/Angry-Resistant) and reject your praise, feedback do you retreat or approach them with loving words? <strong>Key:\u00a0<\/strong>Go towards them with loving words, even if they reject them!<\/p>\n<p>Waves (external regulators &#8211; you do me)\u00a0need an IN i.e.\u00a0loving words, as their greatest fear is to be abandoned and rejected. But here&#8217;s the key a wave attachment style will reject the first loving words just to see if you can hold them, then if you approach again they soften.<\/p>\n<p>We are complex yet so simple when we develop a manual, from a psychobiological approach, on each other!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Soothing Each Others Nervous System in Relationship by Brenda Sutherland &nbsp; Winter is a time of regrouping, revisioning, renewing as we are asked to go inwards and assess what is working and what is not, at the same time rest. Over the last weeks I have witnessed many couples fighting more than usual, separating or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[19,20],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-attachment-styles","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awakening.theteamserver.com\/lms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}