231 - Why Your Relationships Keep Triggering You Even After You've Done the Work w/ Patrick Teahan
About this episode
Patrick Teahan discusses how unresolved childhood trauma continues to affect adult relationships and emotional triggers.
Doing the work means you start picking healthier people. It doesn't mean stuff stops coming up when you do. Patrick Teahan is a psychotherapist, childhood trauma educator, and YouTube creator. In today's conversation, he shares about how he kept trying to save his alcoholic mother through the women he dated, the relationship in his mid-twenties that surfaced wounds he thought he'd already healed, and what's still getting revealed inside his marriage decades later. ✨ What this episode explores ▪️ More Will Always Be Revealed — Why long-term relationships keep pulling up wounds you swore were worked through, and what those triggers are actually for. ▪️ Chasing Unavailable People — The unconscious pattern that turns every adult relationship into another attempt to get a parent to wake up. ▪️ The Therapy-Resistant Partner — What's actually happening when someone close to you keeps asking "why aren't you better yet," and the projection running in both directions. ▪️ The Self-Righteousness Trigger — How childhood trauma turns every trigger into a moral failing, and the self-righteousness hiding inside legitimate pain. ▪️ Why Kids Choose Self-Blame — The protective mechanism that turns…
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