The Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern

  • Has your relationship gone dead?
  • Do you long for the closeness you used to have?
  • Is the passion and sexual excitement gone?
  • Is there an atmosphere of hostility between you?
  • Do you pretend that you don’t need anything in the relationship?
  • Have you pulled away from your partner?
While the problems in the relationship may come from your partner,
you can explore the ways that you may be avoiding intimacy and change them.
This is the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern. Click here for more information.
XIf you have the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern, when you are in a love relationship, you aren't as intimate as you're capable of being because a part of you is blocking closeness. For example, you are not as sexual, affectionate, or loving as you know you can be. This often comes from the childhood experience of "avoidant attachment." 

Perhaps you do not share much of yourself with your partner. Or you’re not as caring toward your partner as you know you could be. You might be avoiding intimacy in only one or two of these areas, or in all of them.

Of course, it takes two to tango, so the lack of intimacy in your relationship is likely due to some difficult dynamics between you and your partner. For example, you may have pulled away from your partner because it feels like your partner is so judgmental toward you. There could be smoldering resentment that has built up between the two of you, and neither of you feels open and loving anymore.


You can transform your Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern
and have the love and closeness you want.

Self-Therapy Journey is an interactive online tool
for resolving psychological issues such as the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern.
With Self-Therapy Journey, you can transform your Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern into the Intimacy Capacity, which means you can...
  • Have the love and closeness you want.
  • Have someone who will really listen to your feelings.
  • Regain that passion and spark!
  • Enjoy deep affection and caring.
  • Feel free to be fully yourself with your partner.
  • Have that special someone to share your life with.
 Click here  for more information on the Intimacy Capacity.

You can create a personalized practice
for activating the Intimacy Capacity in your life.

Learn How Self-Therapy Journey Works with the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern

Self-Therapy Journey is a powerful tool
for transforming your Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern
and cultivating your Intimacy Capacity.

But that's not all!
It works with many other psychological issues as well. It will help you work through a wide variety of patterns and develop many different capacities.

You Can...

  • Take command of your personal growth
  • Work at your own pace in your own time
  • Heal your emotional wounds
  • Gain self-confidence and courage
  • Open to intimacy and love
  • Feel hope and optimism about your life
    - each and every day
Discover how the powerful inner process of Self-Therapy Journey can change your life. It is an interactive web application that includes...

  • Check lists for understanding behavior, feelings, and motivations
  • Stories
  • Guided meditations for healing emotional wounds
  • Journaling
  • Customized reports
  • Personalized homework practices for behavior change
  • An online community for support
  • Systematic tracking of your progress
  • And much more

You can have the life you have always dreamed of,
at a tiny fraction of the cost of therapy.

Learn How Self-Therapy Journey Works with the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern

Self-Therapy Journey is brilliant. It's been an absolutely great experience to use it. Every time I had a thought like, "What about this?" there was something in the online system to handle it.

-- Athena Murphy
I think Self-Therapy Journey is immensely helpful. You can go as deep as you want.

-- Elizabeth Moulton,
Clinical Psychologist
It is impressive that this tool was so helpful to me considering that I have done ample self-work for over 25 years.

-- Faith Curtin, MA
Clinical Psychology

Working with Self-Therapy Journey will help you:

  • Dramatically increase your self-awareness
  • Understand your partner's behavior (and that of other people close to you)
  • Recognize when you are caught in self-defeating patterns - and change them to positive actions - right in the moment
  • Significantly lower your level of stress and reactivity
  • Be free of the constricting hold of old emotional wounds
  • Work through your fears so you can live authentically and courageously
  • Become emotionally stable and healthy, leading to peace and satisfaction
  • Enhance your ability for love, creativity, personal power, and living a life of purpose

Hi,

I have been a psychotherapist for 40 years. I have helped hundreds of therapy clients to resolve troubling psychological issues and find love, success, and peace. And hundreds more people have used Self-Therapy Journey to make similar changes. My self-published book Self-Therapy has sold nearly 20,000 copies, and I constantly get emails from readers telling me how much the book has changed their lives.

I created Self-Therapy Journey as a place for you to do your own inner work. I want to make psychological healing available to a wide range of people. When you enroll, I will be personally available to support you in using it. I hold free teleseminars and webinars regularly on Self-Therapy Journey. Please join me.

Try Self-Therapy Journey so you can experience how powerful it is and how easy it is to use.

Jay Earley, PHD

Introductory Video with Jay Earley

Learn How Self-Therapy Journey Works with the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern

Self-Therapy Journey is based on
two comprehensive and powerful systems!



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1. The Pattern System®

The Pattern System is a breakthrough in understanding personality, a Periodic Table for psychology, created by Jay Earley, PhD.

It is a systematic approach to understanding your personality oriented toward psychological healing and personal growth, Self-Therapy Journey contains about 25 patterns, which are ways of behaving and feeling that you might want to change, such as people-pleasing, perfectionism, self-criticism, or avoiding intimacy.

Self-Therapy Journey helps you transform each pattern into a healthy capacity, such as assertiveness, ease, self-esteem, or cooperation. It also allows you to heal 14 different emotional wounds from childhood, such as being deprived or judged or feeling unlovable.

Everyone is unique! And the Pattern System recognizes this. You aren't put into a box. You get to understand the details of your particular personality.

The Pattern System provides the psychological content and IFS provides the therapy process.

Click here to learn more about the Pattern System.

2. Internal Family Systems Therapy

Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) is on the cutting edge of psychotherapy. It allows you to understand your psyche in a new way and create deep, powerful healing of old emotional wounds and trauma. IFS is a recognized, proven method for individual psychotherapy with a robust training program and thousands of certified therapists.

IFS enables you to understand each of the parts of your psyche, sometimes called sub-personalities. You can think of them as little people inside you. Each has its own perspective, feelings, memories, goals, and motivations. For example, one part of you might be trying to lose weight, and another part might want to eat whatever you want.

We all have many different parts, and we each have a spiritual center, the Self, which is compassionate, understanding, and grounded. Through IFS you can learn to stay in Self, develop a relationship with each of your parts, and heal them.

The key is that the your healing comes from you! This means that you can do IFS on your own, without a therapist, which is what makes Self-Therapy Journey possible.

Click here to watch an interview of Jay Earley on IFS by Tami Simon of Sounds True.

Support and Witnessing

You can work on Self-Therapy Journey completely on your own, or you can find a buddy or mentor from our online community to witness your work and support you in making changes in your life. You can also find a therapist guide from our list of professionals who will guide you in using Self-Therapy Journey and provide additional therapy if you want it.

In our online community, you can join a group of people who are dealing with the same issue. You can share with them your progress in your Self-Therapy Journey work and get answers to questions.

Learn How Self-Therapy Journey Works with the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern

I was amazed with the ease of use of STJ and how quickly it helped to identify areas in which I was having difficulty. The guided mediations helped me understand the underlying intention behind my pattern. The homework practice turned out beautifully, allowing me to be more cooperative with others. I learned to re-state confusing feelings in an accepting and loving way. I can now let go of those parts that are no longer serving me.

-- Colleen A.
The greatest benefit of Self-Therapy Journey is its ability to reveal the hidden motivations behind our limiting patterns. I recommend it highly.

-- Nick Lal,
Personal Development
Practitioner
The problems that I worked on using Self-Therapy Journey have been resolved. The Pattern System has jump-started a lot of my clients in understanding their issues at the beginning of their work.

-- Cathy Duke
Licensed Counselor

Have other issues you need help with?
Wondering if Self-Therapy Journey deals with them?
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Learn How Self-Therapy Journey Works with the Intimacy-Avoiding Pattern

XThe Intimacy Capacity involves your ability to be open to love and closeness with your partner. It means being both emotionally and physically open to your partner and receptive when he or she reaches out to connect with you in an intimate way. It also means being able to initiate those aspects of intimacy that you want in the moment. 

For example, to be able to reach out to your partner for affection or sex; to share what is important to you that day; or to ask your partner what is going on emotionally when you sense some unspoken feeling. It might mean arranging times for you to have fun together, or share a meaningful hobby.