{"id":408190,"date":"2010-03-09T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/09\/how-does-fear-affect-your-relationships\/"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T18:00:00","slug":"how-does-fear-affect-your-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408190","title":{"rendered":"How Does Fear Affect Your Relationships?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/love-and-relationships\/\" rel=\"tag\">Love &amp; Relationships<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/category\/advice\/\" rel=\"tag\">Advice<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.thatsfit.ca\/media\/2010\/03\/fear2.jpg\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">We all have fears that affect the ways in which we interact with those around us. But sometimes those fears are so powerful that they prevent us from achieving true intimacy and trust with those we love. Psychologist and relationship counselor <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendashoshanna.com\/\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Dr. Brenda Shoshanna<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, author of the upcoming <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Fearless-7-Principles-Peace-Mind\/dp\/1402770677\" ><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Fearless (The 7 Principles of Peace of Mind)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> explains how fear can ruin a relationship &#8211; and how you can take steps to get rid of the fear that gets in the way of living a full, satisfying life.<\/span><br \/><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q: How does fear change the way we behave?<\/p>\n<p><\/span>A: Fear is a toxin that infiltrates every aspect of our lives. It lowers our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/search\/?q=immune%20system\">immune system<\/a>, clouds thought and creates all kinds of catastrophic expectations that will never take place. Our lives become constricted and [we&#8217;re] unable to live with joy, spontaneity, well being and ease.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Q: Where does fear come from?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/09\/how-does-fear-affect-your-relationships\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Continue reading <em>How Does Fear Affect Your Relationships?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/09\/how-does-fear-affect-your-relationships\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/forward\/19372021\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/03\/09\/how-does-fear-affect-your-relationships\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Love &amp; Relationships, Advice We all have fears that affect the ways in which we interact with those around us. But sometimes those fears are so powerful that they prevent us from achieving true intimacy and trust with those we love. Psychologist and relationship counselor Dr. Brenda Shoshanna, author of the upcoming Fearless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}