Emotional Boundaries in Marriage - Michelle Pomeroy, LMFT
See the importance of taking ownership of your emotions and allowing your significant other to do the same. Understand how to support your partner while not taking on their stuff. Learn how to better regulate your emotional experience by understanding your nervous system. Explore the paradox of what it means to be securely dependent in your relationship. Experience how to co-regulate with your partner.
Time Markers
0:00 – Introduction: Who is Michelle Pomeroy?
4:40 – Our first language: Emotion
6:00 – Process of emotion
8:31 – Emotion and the brain
12:28 – Neuroception internal alarm system: What happens when we “blow up”
16:34 – How do I regulate my emotions?
23:08 – Self-evaluation after mediation
25:47 – Emotion in relationships
29:05 – Setting helpful emotional boundaries
34:00 – Damaging behaviors in developing healthy emotional boundaries
37:00 – Examples of setting healthy emotional boundaries
40:39 – Boundaries open space for compassion
41:40 – Boundaries leading to empathy
42:40 – Ways to co-regulate your emotions with your partner
46:25 – Question and Answer
About Webinar guest:
Michelle helps couples and families find healing and peace in the face of disconnection, trauma, infidelity, betrayal, poor communication, grief, and sexual issues. She is trained in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) a research-based approach to help couples and families break negative patterns, explore emotion and develop lasting closeness. She is also trained in EMDR, an effective intervention for mild to severe trauma, and has received advanced training in treating infidelity and betrayal trauma. Michelle also runs an Instagram account @therightfittherapy to help connect couples to each other.
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