Coaching practices for Raw Spots Sue Johnson
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- Something small my partner does
- I want to actually tell my partner how scared I am of losing them, in a real way and not in the middle of a fight
- We have the same fight over and over with different words on top, and in the moment it always feels like it’s their fault
- My days blur past on autopilot and when I finally sit down to make something the well is dry
- There’s real friction on my team
Practices that may help
- Find and understand your raw spots
A raw spot is a point of attachment vulnerability -- a past wound that current events trigger disproportionately.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - Emotionally Focused Therapy: Sue Johnson's Framework for Lasting Bond Repair
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Sue Johnson, is a couples intervention grounded in attachment theory: it treats distress in close relationships as an attachment injury, and focuses on creating new emotional experiences that rebuild the sense of safe, reliable connection. EFT has one of the stronger evidence bases in couples therapy, with multiple randomized controlled trials showing sustained improvement -- though findings are not uniformly positive and many studies are small. - Have a Hold Me Tight conversation
Sue Johnson's structured conversation for reaching past defensiveness to the attachment need underneath.
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Sue Johnson's Framework for Lasting Bond Repair - Recognize your demon dialogue -- the negative cycle running your relationship
Every stuck couple has a predictable negative loop; naming it together is the first step out.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love
Hold Me Tight is Sue Johnson's framework -- derived from Emotionally Focused Therapy -- for strengthening adult attachment bonds through seven structured conversations about accessibility, responsiveness, and emotional safety. The therapist-guided EFT version has strong trial evidence; the self-guided book program is less studied but grounded in the same mechanisms. - Cultivate awareness as your primary creative tool
Pay unusually close attention to what you notice, what you feel, and what catches you — these are the raw material.
The Creative Act: Rick Rubin’s Approach to Making - Storming: name the conflict without taking sides
Surface the tension that’s already there rather than managing it away.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Have the core Hold Me Tight conversation
Share what you most need to be heard saying, and receive what your partner most needs you to hear.
Hold Me Tight: Sue Johnson's Seven Conversations for Lasting Love - The accusation audit
Say the worst thing they might be thinking about you — out loud, first — to defuse it.
Never Split the Difference, In Practice - Create corrective emotional experiences together
The goal is not to understand the pattern intellectually -- it is to have a new emotional experience of safety within it.
Emotionally Focused Therapy: Sue Johnson's Framework for Lasting Bond Repair
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- Hold Me Tight Sue Johnsons Seven Conversations For Lasting Love At Work
Hold Me Tight is Sue Johnson's framework -- derived from Emotionally Focused Therapy -- for strengthening adult attachment bonds through seven structured conversations about accessibility, responsiveness, and emotional safety. The therapist-guided EFT version has strong trial evidence; the self-guided book program is less studied but grounded in the same mechanisms.
- Sue Johnson Hold Me Tight
Hold Me Tight is Sue Johnson's framework -- derived from Emotionally Focused Therapy -- for strengthening adult attachment bonds through seven structured conversations about accessibility, responsiveness, and emotional safety. The therapist-guided EFT version has strong trial evidence; the self-guided book program is less studied but grounded in the same mechanisms.
- Eft Couples Therapy
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Sue Johnson, is a couples intervention grounded in attachment theory: it treats distress in close relationships as an attachment injury, and focuses on creating new emotional experiences that rebuild the sense of safe, reliable connection. EFT has one of the stronger evidence bases in couples therapy, with multiple randomized controlled trials showing sustained improvement -- though findings are not uniformly positive and many studies are small.
- Demon Dialogues Sue Johnson
Give the inner critic a voice on paper and then respond — the goal is dialogue, not silencing.
The inner critic dialogue
- Eft Emotionally Focused Therapy Couples
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Sue Johnson, is a couples intervention grounded in attachment theory: it treats distress in close relationships as an attachment injury, and focuses on creating new emotional experiences that rebuild the sense of safe, reliable connection. EFT has one of the stronger evidence bases in couples therapy, with multiple randomized controlled trials showing sustained improvement -- though findings are not uniformly positive and many studies are small.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy Sue Johnsons Framework For Lasting Bond Repair After A Loss
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), developed by Sue Johnson, is a couples intervention grounded in attachment theory: it treats distress in close relationships as an attachment injury, and focuses on creating new emotional experiences that rebuild the sense of safe, reliable connection. EFT has one of the stronger evidence bases in couples therapy, with multiple randomized controlled trials showing sustained improvement -- though findings are not uniformly positive and many studies are small.
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