Sara: Inability to trust

Sara is a professional woman in her 20s with a family and a business. She handles many responsibilities with insight, acuity, and crisp action.

Sara came to me for help with an issue affecting her relationships to men, including her husband. Sara's difficulty was one of trust. Rather than trust a man to come through for her, she preferred to handle things herself. This strategy had worked well for her in starting her business, but was undermining the long-range promise of both her business and her marriage.

We met for a total of six sessions over a period of four weeks. At the bottom of this page are links to summaries of the four phases of our work together. In the Exploration phase, I share notes from our first conversations about her experience of the issue. In Mapping, you can see a summary and details of the feelings we mapped. In Liberation you can see Sara's experience after we released the feelings to freedom. And in Integration, I share how Sara is naturally integrating the rewards of the work she did.

Immediately below is an overview of all the feelings we mapped on the left, with the liberated feelings on the right. Click any feeling name or image to go to a detail page for that feeling-state.

Attempted control Fluid accomplishing
Fear of regret Trust in my intuition
Cutting ties Inner strength
Catapult Excitement
Lack of trust Right here
Fear of regret Fairy planning
Claustrophobia Genie powers
Quicksand Trusted surroundings
Distrust of my motives Inner light
Bafflement Contentment
Simple me
Simple me

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