Pathway 2 Empowerment
We strive to empower people on their journey to complete wellness of mind and body through emotional growth, healing, movement, and exploration. People are meant to thrive and live happy fulfilling lives, and our mission is to help everyone go from surviving to thriving.
Episodes
99 episodes
Weaponized Incompetence- The Over Functioning Trap
When one partner feigns inability or ignorance to successfully offload labor, be it emotional, mental, or domestic, it forces the other partner into an over-functioning parental role within the relationship which is like poison to a relationshi...
Weaponized Incompetence - Claiming Confusion
In today's episode we discuss examples of the claiming confusion aspect of weaponized incompetence. Where one partner may manage companies at work but then come home and claim to be confused about simple household tasks. How can we navigate cha...
Shutting Down A Partners Feedback by Labeling It As Unsupportive Of Your Diagnosis
In this episode we share real life examples of partners shutting down their partners valid emotional feedback by labeling it as triggering or unsupportive of their neurodivergent or mental health diagnosis. We sprinkle in information on how the...
Using Your Mental Health Diagnosis To Avoid Changing Behavior
For the month of July we are switching things up a bit and giving more personal examples of each topic we discuss while still answering questions and giving information about the topic and how things could have been handled better. In today's e...
Cultivating A Secure Attachment In Your Children
Children learn whether or not the world is safe, whether they are inherently worthy, and whether or not emotional expression is safe long before they learn to read or write. We as primary caregivers are tasked with this foundational learning th...
Challenging Your Attachment Style To Become Secure
Your attachment style is a better predictor of your physical health, longevity, and overall happiness than wealth or genetics. This makes challenging your current style to become more secure a crucial point on your wellness journey! In this epi...
How Attachment Styles Affect Relationships
Your attachment style plays a huge role in the way you function within the relationships of your life. In this episode we discuss how attachment styles affect our relationships.
Secure Attachment Style
Having a secure attachment style is about having a nervous system that knows how to return to calm. Understanding what secure attachment is, is an essential piece of building healthy relationships and living a healthy, happy life. In this episo...
Fearful Avoidant Attachment Style
In this episode we talk about how the fearful avoidant toggles between polar opposites, they simultaneously possess the highest anxiety of abandonment and the highest avoidance of intimacy, creating a vicious push-pull cycle. We talk about how ...
Dismissive Avoidant Attachment Style
Exploring the attachment styles is not about labeling, it is recognizing trauma-based self-protection strategies and bridging the gaps necessary to move toward a more healthy secure attachment. In this episode, we are discussing The Dismissive ...
Anxious Preoccupied Attachment Style
This episode explores the behaviors that are present for people operating with an anxious preoccupied attachment style, how relationship dynamics work within those partnerships, and how the attachment style was formed. Understanding attachment ...
Attachment Styles Overview
The 4 primary attachment styles dictate how we navigate intimacy, trust, and emotional closeness. Understanding yourself and which attachment style you operate out of serves as a powerful roadmap for deconstructing unhealthy dynamics and improv...
Communicating Your Emotions
Now that we have a base of knowledge about what emotions we are experiencing, it's time to dive into how we communicate our emotions to the people in our lives in an effective and healthy way. This episode discusses why it is important to commu...
Honoring Your Emotions
The truth is some of our darkest or most uncomfortable emotions can actually be our most valuable guides. The moment we learn to stop ignoring, numbing, or feeling burdened by our emotions and instead honor them, gives us the freedom and permis...
Trapped Emotions
How can we work through our trapped emotions so that we can release them as well as the tension they were holding in our bodies? This episode discusses trapped emotions, how to work through them, as well as ways to prevent them from becoming tr...
Guilt Versus Shame
This episode breaks down the fundamental differences between guilt and shame, offering a powerful roadmap to break free from toxic shame patterns. Our hope is that we can take these steps to detach our identity from our mistakes and rewrite our...
Trauma Responses
Most of us have heard of flight, fight, freeze or fawn... these are our trauma responses. Do you know which response you tend to react with? In this episode we discuss the trauma responses, what they look like, why they show up for us, and how ...
Triggers
We have all heard the word Triggered being thrown around a lot in the past few years. But what are triggers? What does it mean? And how can we cope with and manage our triggers when they come up?
Where Emotions Live
This episode explores different disciplines beliefs in where certain emotions live within our bodies, including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Yogic Chakras, Ayurveda, and Somatic Mapping. Learning where emotions may live, be experienced, or get...
What Do Emotions Feel Like In Our Bodies?
Does everyone experience emotion the same way? Do we all carry each emotion in the same area of the body? How can we be aware of which emotion is coming up for us based on the physical sensation. These are some of the questions that we will be ...
Identifying Emotions
Many of us struggle to identify our emotions, in this episode we discuss why it is important to identify them as well as give tips and tricks that you can do to grow your ability to identify what emotions you are experiencing as they come up. E...
What Are Emotions?
Are emotions good? Can they be bad? Emotions are neither good or bad, they are simply a means of communication and an attempt to keep you safe. It's what we do with those emotions that creates the positive or negative connotation. In this episo...
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The term Narcissist has been thrown around a lot in recent years, however, not always correctly. This conversation should shed some light as to what NPD actually is and what characteristics are exhibited.
Panic Disorders
Continuing our monthly topic of mental health disorders, we are discussing the in's and out's of panic disorders, how they differ from panic attacks, what the symptoms are, and what therapy modalities work best as well as learning some groundin...
Borderline Personality Disorder
Have you ever wondered what causes borderline personality disorder? Or what symptoms may present for some people with it? Well today we are talking about the possible causes, symptoms, when it's usually diagnosed, as well as different therapy m...