My partner and I have been doing couples therapy with someone who integrates TCM emotional-organ work, and we keep getting stuck because he processes everything through his heart fire and I process everything through my liver wood, and our therapist says this creates a cycle where his emotional intensity triggers my anger which feeds his fire more. We understand the pattern intellectually but we can't seem to break out of it even when we see it happening.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual understanding of traditional energetic patterns is insufficient to transform embedded relational dynamics, creating frustration about knowing what's happening without being able to change it.
“Where Are You with TCM and emotional-organ relationships?”
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