There are research studies coming out daily that show significant benefits to when it comes to helping couples build positive communication skills. For one, trauma bond couples therapy uses holistic therapies and yoga therapy techniques.
These mind-body skills help high conflict couples who resort to yelling, learn to share emotions calmly. Sometimes, growing up in an abusive childhood environment leads to a need for trauma bond couples therapy. Anger, jealousy, and insecurity can increase due to an emotional or physical injury and childhood abuse.
Let’s talk about trauma bonds in marriage counseling
In a trauma bond, couples get into high conflict disagreements. Unfortunately, this way of communicating can fall into an abusive category. Sometimes, both people use abusive language and communication tactics. In a high conflict relationship, yelling becomes normal. There may be threats, accusations, and a lack of healthy communication skills as a whole.
At times, a victim begins to agree with the abusive person’s reason’s for treating them badly. An abusive person may make excuses for why the victim deserves poor, disrespectful treatment.
Traits of a trauma bond before starting couples therapy
There is a cycle of blame and lack of accountability in an abusive relationship. As well, a victim may try to cover for the abusive person or alcoholic.
An abusive person may show extreme jealousy and anger, show domestic violence, and be sexual abusive. A victim may feel distant from friends, family members, or neighbors. Trauma bond couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples who want to change together. Both people in a relationship need to want to grow in a healthier direction in order to build lasting love.
To begin, book your free phone consult for trauma bond couples therapy below.
Holistic, mind-body therapies help high conflict couples in counseling to gain better balance over intense emotions like anger.
In addition, yoga therapy for trauma bond couples is very different than hot yoga classes. As well, holistic coping tools can help high conflict couples find alternatives or skills in addition to psychiatric medication.
Holistic counseling improves anxiety reduction skills. Holistic, mind-body therapies help fighting couples in counseling learn how to take a deep breath together.
What is trauma bond couples therapy and how can positive coping tools in marriage therapy help?
In a trauma bond, which is an addictive form of abusive love, there are negative communication habits. Often, these negative ways of interacting have roots in abusive childhood experiences. Maybe, as a child, you had a parent who was an alcoholic. And, you identify as an adult child of alcoholics.
Perhaps, your parents, siblings, family, or caregivers were physically abusive, sexually abusive, or emotionally neglectful. In trauma bond couples therapy, couples can learn healthy communication skills to replace negative ones. For instance, in trauma bond couples therapy, you can learn about love bombing, gaslighting, manipulation, lying, trust, and the cycle of abuse.
Love bombing is a negative communication skill that is common to talk about in trauma bond couples therapy
In trauma bond couples therapy, you can talk about respect, loyalty, trust, and how to share emotions in calm ways. On common way an abusive person will try to win back their victim after an abusive episode is through love bombing. Love bombing involves a sudden gift to repair rather than apologizing.
Likewise, love bombing is an intense attempt to create a new bond in a relationship. An abusive person may buy gifts, flowers, or jewelry to try to repair after saying hurtful things or being overly critical.
This creates a dependency on the abuser for validation. Manipulation and gaslighting are very common in high conflict couples and trauma bond couples. Love bombing may also be a pattern from childhood that get carried into an adulthood romantic relationship. Trauma bond couples therapy sessions at Wisdom Within Counseling help couples who want to stay together stay grounded, calm, and centered while communicating.
To begin, book your free phone consult for trauma bond couples therapy below.
What Is Yoga Therapy and Holistic Trauma Bond Therapies for Couples?
Yoga therapy is a type of yoga where you get to have a personal and intimate relationship with your partner. Just like talk therapy, yoga therapy can include talking about worries, anxiety, depression, stress, pain, and your relationship.
Yoga therapy helps high conflict couples who feel intense emotions take over. You can learn to release rage, anger, jealousy, sadness, and betrayal through holistic, creative, yoga therapies. Trauma bond couples therapy helps couples break down protective walls and be emotionally vulnerable.
Trauma bond couples therapy for sexual trauma
Through trauma bond couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling, we also help victims of sexual trauma to heal. Childhood sexual abuse and being molested can lead to high conflict fights in relationships. Trauma bond couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps partners share about hurt and sexual trauma from the past. Holistic, creative therapies help each person feel safe and connected to their mind, body, and spirit.
Trauma bond couples therapy at Wisdom Within Counseling helps partners overcome and attract more positive, safe friendships too.
Painful memories and stories are held in the physical body. For instance, a harsh, heated, angry conversation may leave your energy changed and resentful. As well, yelling leaves a knot in your neck and your mind frazzled for hours. Likewise, feeling unsafe in a relationship can lead to painful vaginal intercourse, a low libido, a low sex drive, and problems orgasming.
Overcome childhood trauma and sexual abuse as a couple
If you or your partner has endured sexual abuse, couples therapy can help release this painful story. Sexual abuse history can lead to sexual dysfunction, premature ejaculation, anorgasmia, and painful sexual intercourse.
In yoga therapy and holistic therapy, we help victims who have been inappropriately touched find solstice. Trauma bond couples therapy can help you create inner peace, and move through sexual trauma into a safe, happy life.
Yoga therapy and holistic couples therapy can be a safe place in the world to build a positive relationship with your mind, body, and spirit to be your own best friend!
I would love to help you on your journey through yoga therapy.
Written By
Katie Ziskind, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, RTY500 provides experiential therapy in Niantic, CT. At Wisdom Within Counseling, Katie and her team help frustrated couples, teens and young adults build confidence by integrating art, yoga, music, and animal therapy with traditional talk therapy. We focus on self-love and self-acceptance skills for couples and children. Couples and children can learn self-regulation, trust, and emotional release tools.
