Ep 305 Vulnerability and Intimacy with Dr. Jessica Higgins
Marriage Therapy Radio
MTR
4.6 • 690 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Zach and Laura welcome Dr. Jessica Higgins to the podcast. They discuss the importance of acknowledging and expressing emotions, modeling vulnerability, and using language that promotes curiosity and understanding in communication. They emphasize the need to slow down, bring awareness to interpretations, and create space for regulating emotions during interactions.
Learn more about Dr. Higgins and her work at https://drjessicahiggins.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome and thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio. |
| 0:05.8 | My name is Zach Brittle. |
| 0:06.9 | I'm here with Laura Heck and also with Dr. Jessica Higgins. |
| 0:10.9 | Jessica is a delight to talk to. |
| 0:13.0 | She's got all kinds of wisdom about how to help move the needle in the relationship. |
| 0:18.1 | I always say that move the needle in the relationship, but everybody does it a different way. And she brings a unique degree of empathy and insight and wisdom and |
| 0:26.8 | experience. It's really cool to hear about her story, her personal story with her husband, |
| 0:32.0 | and also just how she's organizing her work in a time of sort of constant transition for her. I think there are a lot of really cool insights. If you're a couple looking for help, can't find somebody or can't get in with a, you know, a therapist in your town, she is able to meet with you from kind of wherever you are. And so I would encourage you to check out her work, what you can do at Dr. Jessica Higgins.com. |
| 0:55.7 | And if you don't believe me, just check out the interview with this. |
| 0:58.3 | It's a very cool conversation. |
| 0:59.3 | Stick around. |
| 1:00.7 | I did want to go back to this idea of vulnerability, which is how do you navigate vulnerability? |
| 1:07.9 | Because I find that a lot of what we do in our sessions as couples therapists |
| 1:12.8 | or coaches is having to model our own vulnerability or creating that space of vulnerability. |
| 1:20.3 | And I'm just wondering, how do you create a space for vulnerability with either an individual |
| 1:26.7 | client that you're working with where maybe you're modeling that or you're trying to create a space where they with either an individual client that you're working with where |
| 1:28.2 | maybe you're modeling that or you're trying to create a space where they can be more vulnerable |
| 1:31.9 | with you or holding space for a couple in order to exchange vulnerability with one another. |
| 1:37.9 | How does that work with your work? |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.4 | I think with each person and their comfort and where they are in the continuum of |
| 1:46.5 | what they're operating with, whether or not it's a lot of protection and maybe even trauma or |
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