Hi everybody. Welcome to the women's dating and confidence podcast. My name is Amber, and today I want to talk to you

about how I created the emotion of feeling safe while I was dating.

Before we get into that, I want to share with you my free guide called copy and paste

texts for when he's pulling away or acting flaky. The link for that is going to be in the show

notes. And then if you're interested in working together, coaching will be open again in

October. Until then, I have a mini dating anxiety course that can be found on my website and

the link is in the show notes as well. So if you are struggling with dating anxiety, this course has

10 meditations and written reflections to

help you process through that anxiety and to relieve some of the biggest causes of that

dating anxiety that can come up. So let's dive into today's episode, which is about creating

safety. And I really want to clarify what I mean by that.

So when I was dating, I had my own shit to work through and my own fears and insecurities and challenges

and disappointments and getting discouraged and all of the stuff that you deal

with as well and also that my clients deal with in the group.

And what I would do to work through those emotions and those challenges was a journaling

process that I got from my business coach,

actually Elizabeth Salazar, called The Daily Work. And I kind of made some tweaks to it to make it

my own and kind of adjusted some of the exercises to work for me and what I needed. And one of the exercises that I gave myself was thinking about

my vision and my goal and what I wanted to create in this area of my life. So for example,

I wanted a playful, sexy, fun, and deep relationship with somebody. And I would imagine how would I feel if I

actually had that? Like, what is it that I think that will give me when I meet this person and create

that kind of relationship? And I would write down three emotions that I think I would feel

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