Juliet Grayson: Do I have to give up me to be loved by you

One of the toughest challenges in a relationship is being able to forge our own individual selves. And it isn’t always something that gets easier over time.

Our ability to create a strong separate self independent of a couple relationship is strongly influenced by how we grew up, and what our relationship with our parents was like.

In this episode Andrew talks with psychosexual therapist Juliet Grayson about the question “Do I Have to Give Up Me to Be Loved By You?

Juliet Grayson provides extensive training courses and workshops for therapists, including training in attachment informed couple therapy, creative writing in the therapeutic encounter, and the Pesso Boyden system of psychotherapy. Her website hosts many informative webinars, covering numerous topics including shame, death and relationships.

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- Three things Juliet Grayson knows to be true.

- How to Feel Less Guilty

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