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~Illustrated Concepts~

Emotional Thermometer

Knowing your emotional temperature is the first step to regulating it. This simple visual helps you recognize your level of activation and choose what you need next.

Manipulation BAITT

Manipulation is often much subtler than we think. BAITT helps you recognize five common ways people try to influence each other indirectly—so you can respond more clearly instead of getting pulled into the pattern.

Betrayal Bridge

The Betrayal Bridge is a visual guide to the repair process after betrayal. It helps couples understand what rebuilding trust requires and why healing often happens in stages.

The 4 Protections

When we feel threatened, we all have ways of protecting ourselves. The 4 Protections help you recognize whether you tend to demand, overdo, reject, or hide—and what those reactions are trying to protect.

Team Time-outs

A time-out shouldn’t feel like abandonment or punishment. Team Time-outs are a structured way to pause an escalating conversation, regulate, and come back together with a plan.

Relationship Container

A healthy relationship has room for both people. The Relationship Container helps you see what happens when one person’s needs, emotions, or priorities start taking up all the available space.

Conversation Catch

Conversation Catch offers a simple metaphor for helping one person share while the other actually receives what’s being said.

Door Between Us

Conflict often becomes a tug-of-war over who gets to be right, heard, or understood. The Door Between Us helps you notice the moves that shut connection down—and the ones that keep the door open.

Layers of Disagreement

Most arguments aren’t just about the thing you’re arguing about. The Layers of Disagreement helps you look beneath the surface issue to the feelings, meanings, fears, and needs underneath.

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