Jennifer Nurick

01/12/2020

🌟 December 2020 - Emotional Intelligence Edition🌟 -

Hello my friends, I am sat in my garden after one of the hottest November weekends on record. Tomorrow is the first day of summer. I have to say, I love summer. I love the feeling of the sun on my body, I love everyone being on holidays and the holiday vibe, I love it all. It is odd for me (coming f...

01/11/2020

🌟 October 2020 - Assertiveness Edition🌟 -

Hello my friends, I am sat here wondering how you all are. I have relatives and clients in the US, UK, Canada and Melbourne where the last few months have been VERY different to my experience here in Sydney.  My children have been at school for most of the year, the cafes, bars, restaurants and hai...

02/10/2020

🌟 October 2020 - Highly Sensitive People 🌟 -

Hello my friends, I hope you are staying safe, well and are managing to stay connected to people around you, to self-care and keep your body moving.  I have had a busy month personally. I completed a 3 day training in Schema Therapy - something that uses a combination of cognitive behavioral ther...

01/09/2020

🌟 September 2020 - The Power of Self-Validation 🌟 -

Hello my friends, I hope you are staying safe, well and are managing to stay connected to people around you, to self-care and keep your body moving.  As we collectively move through everything that Covid has bought, it is good to remember the impact of UNCERTAINTY. Uncertainty brings fear. We like...

04/08/2020

🌟 August 2020 - Re-Parenting Newsletter 🌟 -

Hello my friends, I hope you are staying safe, well and are managing to stay connected to people around you. We are definitely living in difficult times with new challenges presenting themselves on a daily basis.  For us in Australia, we have been relatively unaffected by the Covid outbreak thus fa...

29/07/2020

Hello! I have moved all social media onto .central . Find me there & let’s stay in touch 💛💛😊

01/07/2020

🌟 July 2020 - Working with Trauma Newsletter 🌟 -

Hello my friends, Well, it seems to be one HUGE month after another. Is anyone else feeling like that? This month started with the tragic murder of George Floyd in the US and the global uprising of the Black Lives Matter movement. As a therapist and human it was time for me to look deeper. If system...

05/06/2020

01/06/2020

🌟 June 2020 - Heal the Mother Wound - Newsletter 🌟 -

Hello my friends, I hope this newsletter finds you well and managing this new life as well as you can. This month started with one of the best Mother's Days I have ever had! Having spent a lot of last month writing about attachment styles and attachment wounding, I found myself on the Saturday befor...

16/05/2020

Wonderful article...

In his opening keynote, Canadian physician Gabor Maté called on therapists to expand their frame of reference and recognize how their job is too often a kind of mopping up after the cruelties and injustices of the larger systems that shape our lives.

14/05/2020

Hello! You may know one of the side projects I am working on is with the International Energetic Healing Association. It started when we were applying for accreditation for our signature course - GWC Mastery Foundation Course. As we were in the meeting with the beautiful Siina I had a knowing that I wanted to get more involved with what they were doing. There was a feeling that there was something there for me to do or be part of. I followed that guidance and contacted the organisation and here we are a few months later! Feeling very blessed to be part of something wonderful!

Here is the interview about the International Energetic Healing Association and some of the things we have brewing! Such a wonderful organisation focused on increasing the visibility of alternative therapies globally.

We're excited to share that we have now separated out the roles of Director and President, both of which our wonderful Irina has been filling simultaneously,...

14/05/2020

🌟WHAT IS YOUR ATTACHMENT STYLE?🌟⁣
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🧠 Up until the age of two our brain is growing at a furious rate. The neurons are connecting, and the brain is being wired, literally. In the relationship with our primary care giver (usually the mother) we are being wired for relationship. As children we depend on this person for food, love, understanding and survival, so we adapt out behaviour to suit the situation we are experiencing in that relationship to stay live, fed and loved.⁣
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If the mother was not available or inconsistent in their availability or even abusive, the attachment bond that was created is called ‘insecure’. Three distinct insecure styles have been identified by researchers:⁣
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🔅Ambivalent / anxious – develops clingy and insecure traits as an adult⁣
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🔅Avoidant – develops intimacy issues and can be ‘cold’ as an adult⁣
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🔅Disorganised – this is a combination of the two above – flips between being clingy and distancing. Often the result of trauma in the relationship with the mother.⁣
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This first relational ‘imprint’ continues into adulthood. We have unconscious expectations that the person we are in an adult intimate relationship with, will behave the same way as our mother did. So, if she was unavailable and cold, we will have an expectation that our needs won’t be met by our partner and there is no point in sharing. We may want to be intimate but have no experience of what that feels and looks like from the inside.⁣
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If you read through the list and feel that you fall into one of the three insecurely attached groups and have felt the pain of that attachment style over and over again in your intimate relationships, in your friendships and at work, know that you CAN help yourself.⁣
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After our detailed exploration of the four styles we will be looking at practical ways we can rewire our personality for more fulfilling relationships.⁣
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🦋 You CAN go back and rewire that original attachment to create profound shifts and healing in your adult life. I have seen it happen again and again in therapy, so have hope.⁣
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@ Sydney, Australia