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Episode 2: Feeling Smothered? – Learn How to Live Your Truth and Be in RelationshipDoes the traditional model for relationship feel limiting to your true nature? Do you feel like you constantly have to compromise your authenticity to avoid conflict with your partner? We have, and we’re learning that it doesn’t have to be that way.In this episode we’re talking with psychotherapists Alyson Schwabe and Reuvain Bacal, relationship experts and specialists in women’s and men’s issues. They let us in on something the therapists call ‘differentiation’ and what we think of as ‘the opposite of a shitty relationship.’Healthy differentiation means maintaining autonomy while in relationship to another. The lack of differentiation is perhaps at its strongest in our romantic relationships, where desires, social models, and insecurities pull us into dependence. If we can learn how to establish healthy differentiation our relationships may take on a whole new level of reward and freedom. Listen as we learn what it looks like to lack differentiation and learn some techniques for how to get to a healthier relationship.This is part 1 of a two-part series. Listen to part 2: I’m Not Calling You Fat….