intimacy — Blog — Antesa Jensen

Great relationships are created, not found.

What is one thing you’ve learned about yourself over the years that has dramatically improved your relationships?

The world is a mirror.

The world is a mirror. As within, so without. You see what you think/believe.

Antesa JensenSeptember 10, 2024spiritual growth, relationship tools, intimacy, spiritual partnership

The 80/20 Rule

I teach four tenants of giving great feedback, and this one is by far the most popular.

Unmet needs and reparenting yourself.

Without understanding how and why it happens, we inadvertently recreate the very dynamics we abhorred from our childhood, and pin our unmet needs from the past, and the expectations we have about intimacy, onto our partner(s), instead.

Antesa JensenOctober 28, 2023reparenting, healing, intimacy, relationship, parenting, childhood, transformation

How to have an emotionally intelligent conversation about racism.

We have a lot of examples of what not to do, just look anywhere on social media. In this article, I’ll discuss how to engage in an emotionally intelligent conversation that helps bring actual progress to systemic racism.

Dear men: being real is more important than being strong.

Men spend most of their lives being told to stop feeling their feelings. What would change in the world if we started making space for them?

Antesa JensenJune 26, 2019emotional expression, intimacy, emotional needs, healing trauma, self development

We need one another.

My heart broke into a million pieces knowing I had hurt him while trying to protect myself. In that moment I knew I only had one choice: tell him what I was so afraid of.

Antesa JensenFebruary 11, 2019healing, sacred relationship, vulnerability, intimacy, interdependence

Why I decided to unfriend Facebook.

We go about our lives doing a lot of things that we never bother to question. It was time to question my relationship with Facebook.

A relationship tailor-made for me.

For a long time I thought there must be an elusive thing I was missing. Like, some relationship gene that didn't get passed down to me. I looked at it like this failure in my life, and all the while, I was not actually taking active measures to date.

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