Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome Message from Your Instructor

    • RYIC Welcome Message
    • Professional Vitae
    • Bibliography for This Course
    • For Those Who Enjoy Poetry
    • Please introduce yourself
  • 2

    Meet Your Inner Child

    • Introduction
    • Introductory Activities
    • Grieving Your Inner Child activity
    • Ask Your Inner Child What S/he Knows That You've Forgotten activity
    • What Does Your Inner Child Need? activity
    • What Made Your Inner Child Happy? activity
  • 3

    Attachment Styles and the Inner Child

    • Attachment Styles part 1
    • Attachment styles part 2
    • Anxious Insecure activity
    • Anxious Ambivalent activity
    • Fearful Avoidant activity
    • Dismissive Avoidant activity
    • Attachment Styles Closing Thoughts
  • 4

    In Mother's Eyes

    • How Our Parents Form Us
    • Love, Freedom, Safety, and the Psyche four activities
    • Setting and Maintaining Boundaries
    • Setting and Maintaining Boundaries activity
    • In Mother's Eyes Final Thoughts
  • 5

    The Fantasy Bond

    • The Fantasy Bond and Enmeshment
    • Fantasy Bond activities
    • Fantasy Bond activités 1-12
  • 6

    Styles of Intimacy

    • The Origin and Outcome of Intimacy
    • The Balancing Act of Intimacy
    • Are You More or Less activity
    • Must You Trust First? activity
    • Loyalty is Everything and The Nurturer
    • A Health Degree of Detachment
  • 7

    Uncovering Psychological Avoidance

    • Stress and Coping Patterns
    • Identifying Stressors
    • Avoidance vs Engagement Coping
    • Uncovering Avoidance activity
    • Engaging with Defusion and Reframing
    • What Do I Avoid
    • Perceived Powerlessness
    • Finding Your Power
    • Closing Thoughts on Psychological Avoidance
  • 8

    When Your Partner is Emotionally Unavailable

    • When Your Partner is Emotionally Unavailable
    • Ten Signs of Emotional Unavailability
    • The Origins of Emotional Unavailability
    • What Are The Origins of Your Partner's Detachment?
    • What Does This Mean About Me?
    • Taking Care of Your Inner Child
  • 9

    Identifying Self-Defeating Core Beliefs

    • Identify and Rewrite Self Defeating Core Beliefs
    • Identifying Self Defeating Core Beliefs activity
  • 10

    Outsmarting Feelings of Unworthiness

  • 11

    The Origins of Doubt

    • The Origins of Doubt
    • Identifying the Origin of Your Doubt
    • Moderators of Doubt
    • The Third Way
    • From Limiting to Limitless
    • Playing with Antonyms
    • Reviewing Your Choices
  • 12

    Cognitive Dissonance - The Truer Path

    • Cognitive Dissonance as a Fork in the Road
    • Cognitive Dissonance as a Call to Action
    • Cognitive Dissonance Tiptoeing Down the Truer Path
    • Facing Off with Cognitive Dissonance activity
  • 13

    Eclipsed

    • Eclipsed
    • Eclipsed activity
  • 14

    Learning to Trust

    • Learning to Trust
    • Learning to Trust activity
  • 15

    Deserving Love

    • Deserving
    • Deserving Love activity
  • 16

    Keeping It Real in New Love

    • Have You Ever Sabotaged a Relationship?
    • Pretest - Do you really keep it real?
    • Advice for Staying Grounded in New Love
    • Keeping Track of Your Daydreams
    • Daydreamer Data Sheet
  • 17

    Two Kinds of Love

    • Two Kinds of Love
    • In a Perfect World
  • 18

    Afterword

    • Afterword
  • 19

    Please complete my survey

    • Course Completion Survey