97: Tired of Relationship Conflict? Try This Relationship Reset

Ask Kelly your burning questions in our monthly Vital Life Project membership.In this episode, you'll learn how to respond when your partner accuses you of being in victim consciousness or acting too masculine, how to practice self-containment and emotional regulation, how to shift relationship dynamics through behavioural surrender, and why focusing on your own fulfillment can lead to deeper connection.Timestamps:[00:00] Introduction  [00:50] Responding to accusations of victim consciousness  [02:13] Why pop psychology phrases can be harmful  [03:16] The role of containment in relationships  [05:37] Self-soothing versus expecting external validation  [06:58] Why men and women both need self-containment  [08:00] When emotional overwhelm becomes unmanageable  [09:10] How a partner can offer grounding and stability  [10:00] The importance of staying in your lane  [11:25] Why focusing on appreciation shifts relationship dynamics  [12:22] The power of choosing whether to stay or leave  [13:07] Avoiding the trap of making your partner wrong  [13:50] Strengthening the relationship instead of breaking it downWant to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call hereResources Mentioned:The Surrendered Wife by Laura Doyle | Book or AudiobookOm Rupani’s Relationship Training | WebsiteInstagram: @kellybroganmdWebsite: kellybroganmd.comJoin Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here and join the companion program, Reclaimed, here.

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It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.