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Why the Person You Love Feels Impossible To Reach Sometimes | Donna Eden & David Feinstein

The Tony Robbins Channel

Tony Robbins

Business, Education

4.36.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Why does the person you love most suddenly feel impossible to reach? In this powerful talk from the Tony & Sage Robbins 2025 Platinum Partners Relationship Event in Tulum, Mexico, renowned energy medicine pioneer Donna Eden and psychologist David Feinstein explain what's really happening in your body during conflict and why you can suddenly feel like you're on completely different wavelengths than your partner. 


It's not just communication. 


When stress hits, your body shifts into a survival response, and in that moment, you lose access to the part of your brain that helps you think clearly, listen, and connect. That's why small moments can escalate so quickly… and why connection can break down almost instantly.


What makes this different is their lens of energy, how your internal state directly shapes the way you show up, react, and communicate in real time.


Throughout this session, Donna and David share simple, practical ways to shift that state, so you can interrupt the pattern, regulate your response, and reconnect even in the middle of conflict.


If you've ever felt stuck in the same arguments or patterns in your relationship, this will change the way you understand what's going on, and give you tools you can use immediately.


Please enjoy!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Have you ever had that experience of feeling you were on completely different wavelengths than your partner?

0:06.0

David and I have been together for 48 years.

0:10.0

And those first years were tough.

0:12.0

You know, we were totally incompatible.

0:16.0

You've got to get your energies balanced in order to be with another person. What Donna works with is a different level of energy.

0:24.6

I'm just going to show you how everybody in here can shift somebody else's energies and you can shift your own.

0:36.6

Our sensory system is what...

0:40.3

Our sensory systems govern your instincts.

0:45.3

They govern your instincts.

0:47.3

And when your instincts take over, your brain is not there.

0:50.3

I'll show one more thing about that.

0:52.3

Somebody else, pop up. Okay. Okay, now I'm going to show,

1:04.3

I'm going to show you what happens to every one of you when you get in one of those awful

1:09.8

experiences with your partner where it just feels so dreadful.

1:13.7

Okay?

1:14.2

You hold your arm real strong.

1:16.4

She's really strong to begin with.

1:18.7

Now think of something.

1:19.9

I'm going to do it like this so that nobody has to.

1:22.4

Okay, now hold your arm up.

1:25.0

Yeah.

1:25.6

Now think of something that bothers you.

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