037: Relationship Dynamics: Creating Secure, Connected Partnerships by Breaking Unhealthy Patterns
About this episode
This episode explores the underlying emotional and nervous-system patterns that affect relationship dynamics and how partners connect and resolve conflicts.
Relationship struggles aren’t really about communication. They’re about the patterns running underneath. In this episode of The Shift Show, Andrea McTague is joined by Geneviève Malena, Registered Social Worker at ShiftGrit, to explore relationship dynamics — the emotional and nervous-system patterns that shape how partners connect, argue, withdraw, pursue, and repair. Many couples believe they’re fighting about chores, parenting, intimacy, time, or effort. But as this conversation unpacks, t...
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