Your Protection Patterns Are Running You | Awakened Couple Podcast

What if the reactions you dislike most about yourself aren't flaws... but protection strategies?

In this episode of the Awakened Couple Podcast, Steph and Lane explore protection patterns — the automatic behaviors that emerge when our core beliefs, nervous system, and reflection process get activated.

We discuss why people fight, flee, freeze, or people-please, and how these patterns often develop as intelligent solutions to early experiences of pain, shame, fear, or disconnection.

In this episode, we explore: • what protection patterns are and why they form • the connection between core beliefs, emotional triggers, and behavior • how protectors help us avoid painful feelings in the short term while reinforcing old beliefs in the long term  ...