#256: How to Balance Accepting Your Partner & Supporting Their Growth (Ask Steph)

About this episode

This episode discusses how to balance accepting your partner while encouraging their growth.

Subscribe to my YouTube Channel In today's Ask Steph episode, we're talking about how to balance accepting your partner for who they are, while also encouraging them to grow. This is a delicate dance for many of us, and can reveal our own patterns of wanting to fix and save people. We'll talk about where the healthy middle lies between acceptance and change, and how you can create a relational environment that supports growth. Links Free resources for attachment healing Take my attachment styles quiz

People in this episode

Host: Stephanie Rigg

Topics covered

• acceptance
• partner growth
• relationships
• attachment styles
• personal development

Keywords

• accepting partner
• supporting growth
• attachment healing
• relationship dynamics
• personal growth

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