Michael Kluba - Integrative Virtual Therapy Counselling + Assessments

06/14/2026

06/13/2026

06/07/2026

🔸You are rare. Compassion, empathy, kindness, and generosity are infrequent traits. Part of your healing might be the recognition that, if you continue to offer these parts of yourself to those who cannot (or will not) reciprocate, the pattern of chronic loneliness in unfulfilling relationships - romantic, platonic, or otherwise - will continue.

🔸You cannot keep, “[setting] yourself on fire to keep other people warm” (author unknown). Choose people who mutually build the fire with you.

Disclaimer: This post does not account for the actions, and inactions, of other people, and this post is not meant to blame you. This post also does not account for the historical, sociocultural, and relational factors that have contributed to orientating you towards people who do not reciprocate.

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06/05/2026

🔸Holding it all together became a role that was foisted onto you.

Post quote by: .holistic.psychologist

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06/04/2026

🌱…or until we stop to process it and heal.

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06/02/2026

🌱Our family systems, and the dynamics within them, are shaped by sociocultural factors and relationships separate from family.

05/30/2026

🌱Sometimes love is doing the hard thing.

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05/29/2026

🌱Sometimes it’s about what could’ve been, what would’ve been, or what no longer can be.

05/27/2026

🌱You are not broken, needy, or clingy for requiring validation from time to time.

🌱When we adapt by choosing people as the post describes, we learn to shut down a part of ourselves to preserve the other person’s autonomy.

🌱In this attempt to feel loved, worthy, or enough, we might experience it, but only for a moment until it passes again. It is often inconsistent, and it is often based on the other person’s tolerance for meeting the needs of a partner and relationship.

🌱In this way, we may find ourselves in a pattern of similar relationships just with different people.

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05/25/2026

🔸When we’ve experienced betrayal, in one way or another, it’s common to lose trust in, not only the other, but ourselves too.