Self Love is the Foundation of Any Good Relationship with Barry Selby

In this episode, Sophia sits down with Barry Selby who is an inspirational speaker, relationship expert, author, and spiritual guide, with over 35 years of experience and a master’s degree in spiritual psychology. He helps strong successful women to create greater balance in their love, life, and businesses. His friends and clients affectionately call him the Love Doctor. They talk about the role self-love plays in building strong relationships. Recognizing and dealing with negative patterns, creating balance, escaping into romance, and avoiding co-dependency. He also explains why we must be aware of what we learned as children about relationships and why we need to fully process what has happened with past partners.  KEY TAKEAWAYS If you want to live in wholeness, you need to learn to love yourself.We all repeat patterns in relationships. Recognizing the negative ones and guarding against them is essential.Much of the way we act in relationships comes from what we experienced as a child.Having a conversation with your inner child is a powerful way of understanding the belief system you have about relationships. Barry explains how that can be done, during the episode.Writing things down is incredibly powerful for revealing things and disposing of toxic energy. Barry and Sophia share several techniques.You have to deal with past wounding and your baggage before you can be truly open to love.Focus on what you want in love, instead of what you don’t want.Co-dependency is not healthy; interdependency makes for far better relationships. BEST MOMENTS‘You´ve got to be willing to unpack and make peace with the past.’‘You need to start rewiring the childhood programming.’‘The trap of codependency is we don't love ourselves first.’ EPISODE RESOURCESWebsite: https://www.barryselby.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryselbyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/barryselbyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/therealbarryselbyClubhouse: https://clubhousedb.com/user/barryselbyTwitter: https://twitter.com/barryselby50Ways to Love Your Lover by Barry Selby - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ways-Love-Your-Lover-Relationships/dp/0989885208/Where to buy the book in all formats - https://www.barryselby.com/book/  ABOUT THE GUESTBarry Selby is an inspirational speaker, relationship expert, best-selling author, and spiritual guide. He is a passionate champion for the divine feminine, dedicated to helping strong successful women create greater balance in love, life, and business. He is on a mission to awaken women to own and express their feminine magnificence and majesty, in love, and in the world. He helps his clients attract relationships that equal who they really are. As an expert coach and guide for singles seeking relationships and self-love, Barry is affectionately known as the Love Doctor to his friends and clients. With over 35 years of training and experience, including a Master’s Degree in Spiritual Psychology and over 20 years as a professional spiritual counselor, he has helped thousands learn to love themselves and live in wholeness. His #1 best-selling book, 50 Ways To Love Your Lover, helps singles and couples embody powerful principles for passionate and richly rewarding relationships. He brings deep compassion, a gentle and calm masculine presence, and wise guidance to assist his clients in their journey to true love.  VALUABLE RESOURCES Webste: www.thereikihealingcoach.com ABOUT YOUR HOSTSophia is passionate about traveling the world and personal development. She gets off on the power that travel has to change your perspective and also realizing that everywhere you go there you are. So, continuously working on herself is important so she can give the best of her to those she serves. With over 15 years in the helping/ healing space, Sophia holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology, is a certified life coach, and has built her healing toolbox with lots of tools. She uses these tools to help women move from thinking there has got to be more to life than this to knowing fulfillment, more satisfying relationships, loving who they see when they look in the mirror, and stepping into their power. CONTACT THE HOST Webste: www.thereikihealingcoach.com  Podcast Description The travel and transformation podcast is for women who enjoy traveling and personal transformation. You can be anywhere on your journey, just starting to travel or working on yourself, or seasoned at either or both. All are welcome. You’ll be getting the tools you need to start living the life you want to live by creating life your way. Forget living life for other people, whether it’s the job they want you to have, getting married, having kids, or any other people’s wants. It’s about finding a way to do you especially if you are single and over 40. You’ll hear from Sophia individually and the coaches, healers, and others that she interviews. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.