{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Emotion and Hope - Dr. Laura Craig-Bray","description":"Dr. Laura Craig-Bray talks about the use and benefits of EFT (Emotion Focused Therapy) - a tool for strengthening relationships through the awareness of emotions and their ties to identity and behavior. Dr. Laura explains what EFT is and details the two \u201ctypes\u201d of people in relationships: The Pursuer - and - The Withdrawer. This episode is a great look at how therapy can be used to strengthen relationships even when there is no apparent \u201cneed\u201d or \u201cproblems\u201d.    Highlighted Quotes \u201cAssumptions\u201d We live our lives with unquestioned beliefs about relationships, the world, and ourselves that impact our relationships with other people. \u201cBlame\u201d What I love about EFT is that we don't focus on blame or who is \u201cwrong\u201d. Rather, because of our history we often carry into our relationships barriers to intimacy\u2026 and by trying to understand those, understand yourself, and make yourself predictable to your partner and to yourself\u2026 then you can feel safe.    \u201cTrauma\u201d We talk about Trauma with a capital \u201cT\u201d\u2026 but there is also trauma with a little \u201ct\u201d \u2026 and what many people experience growing up is that there is no one there to help them learn about their emotional world\u2026 in some ways that is a form of neglect because there was no one there to help you understand your emotions and tell you that emotions are ok\u2026 that's a small \u201ct\u201d trauma that we see an awful lot of.   Resources\/Mentions: People  Sue Johnson (website) Sue Johnshon - Youtube  Podcast Episodes Episode 59 - Therapist Uncensored  Organizations  New England EFT Seacoast EFT Guest Links: Laura Bio Laura Linkedin  Podcast Links: Instagram: @Hopestrategy  Facebook: @hopestrategy  Twitter: @thehopestrategy Youtube The Hope Strategy  ","author_name":"The Hope Strategy Podcast","author_url":"http:\/\/hopestrategy.libsyn.com\/website","html":"