Center for Healing Arts

Center for Healing Arts Center for Healing Arts is a local Philadelphia Spiritual Healing Center and Community. Please check back for info and events throughout the year!

05/18/2026

One of the most confusing experiences for women is when someone becomes distant immediately after emotional closeness.
The connection was real.
But for someone who fears deep intimacy unconsciously…
closeness itself can become activating to the nervous system.
This doesn’t excuse hurtful behavior.
But understanding the pattern can help women stop internalizing the withdrawal as proof they weren’t enough.




05/18/2026

Sometimes what feels like “obsession” is actually nervous system conditioning.
Intermittent closeness and emotional withdrawal can create deep attachment patterns in the body — especially for women who learned early in life that love was inconsistent or emotionally unsafe.
Healing begins when we stop asking:
“Why can’t I let go?”
and begin asking:
“What inside me learned to equate love with emotional unpredictability?”
Awareness changes everything.




05/14/2026

You cannot heal abandonment by abandoning yourself.

Many women in emotionally inconsistent relationships begin:
over-pursuing
over-explaining
over-accommodating
over-waiting…

hoping to finally feel chosen.

But chasing emotional availability from someone who repeatedly withdraws often deepens the wound instead of healing it.

The real shift begins when you stop asking:
“How do I get them to stay?”
and start asking:
“How do I stay connected to myself?”

Healing is not about becoming less loving.
It’s about becoming less willing to self-abandon in the name of love.





Healing is not becoming someone else. It is remembering who you were before the survival, the heartbreak, the condition...
05/13/2026

Healing is not becoming someone else.
It is remembering who you were before the survival, the heartbreak, the conditioning, and the disconnection. 🌿

Heal. Remember. Rise.

Softening back into the body.
Rebuilding safety within.
Returning to the heart. 💛

TraumaInformed HeartCenteredHealing RememberWhoYouAre Rise

05/12/2026

Women Who Over Function in Love, Many women believe they are being loving…when they are actually abandoning themselves. A healthy relationship allows you to stay connected to the other person AND to yourself! “Love should not require self-erasure.”

05/11/2026

You Keep Trying to Get Back the Good Version of Him, You’re not crazy for remembering the good moments. They were real.” Idealization phases * deep bonding moments * why women stay * grief/confusion “The problem isn’t that the love wasn’t real. The problem is that it wasn’t sustainable.”

05/11/2026

The Push Pull Cycle that Breaks Women, The hardest relationships aren’t always abusive…they’re inconsistent. Nervous system dysregulation, closeness to withdrawal, love to confusion and trauma. Inconsistency in love. calendly.com/asttartedeva

05/10/2026

Why Men Pull Away When Things Get Close, Some men don’t pull away because they don’t care…they pull away because intimacy feels unsafe. Women who love men that are emotionally avoidant and have intimacy anorexia. Loving them harder doesn’t make them heal. http://calendly.com/asttartedeva

05/06/2026

Healthy Polyamory does Exist…but that’s not what this is about. Helping people decode the difference between polyamory and intimacy avoidance. People who say they’re polyamorous but really they’re scared of closeness because of wha got brings up in them. The pattern of avoiding intimacy and keeping someone at arms length. Intimacy Avoidance is the real work, in marriages and in dating relationships. For both men and women - those who haven’t healed their shadow will still run to create space.

05/05/2026

The Men Who Say They’re Poly…But Can’t Stay. So men say they’re polyamorous, but what they’re really avoiding, is being deeply known. Some men use the idea of polyamory as their reason for not having capacity to go deep with one woman. They’re really wanting someone to dilute the intensity of closeness, because in reality, they’re scared of something becoming known. They’re scared of something they haven’t fully looked at deeply from their past. And the one that loves them the most in the present, brings all these feelings up the surface.

05/05/2026

Incompatibility vs Avoidance, How do you know if it’s real incompatibility….or avoidance? Here is discussed the difference between the two. Avoidance of Intimacy, and Intimacy Anorexia. You may actually be really compatible with your partner. But your partner is scared and using excuses to push you away. Here’s another one!

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