Welcome, Innocent Dreamer.
About the Innocent Dreamer Archetype
You have a powerful ability to see the potential for what’s possible in a relationship.
Despite experiencing difficult things in your life, you’ve managed to preserve your three greatest relationship treasures: your sense of wonder, your innocence, and a deep empathy for the suffering of others.
The difficult experiences you’ve lived through have soften you and given you a keen sympathy for those who struggle and those who are vulnerable, especially children and animals.
While others might close their hearts after being broken open by life’s challenges, your own experiences have made you tender and openhearted.
Even though people have disappointed you in the past, you still have a gift for being able to see the innate goodness of others.
People who know you deeply value your ability to see what’s precious within them, especially when they’re not able to see it themselves.
When it comes to those you love, you have a strong sense of loyalty and commitment. You’re willing to invest yourself fully in a relationship, hoping that when you put your love, care, and trust into a relationship, there are no challenges that cannot be overcome.
You have an exceptional—and rare—ability to look beyond the realities of a situation, or relationship, and see its potential.
The challenges you’ve endured in the past have strengthened your belief in your own ability to persevere through a difficult present in the hopes of reaching a brighter future.
Your partners, current and past, have benefitted from your optimism, generosity, and commitment to bringing about the best possible version of reality. Your ability to envision a better future is a gift.
Hold tight to your beautiful and rare ability to see the good in anyone. Now it’s time to also start making more space to focus on your own innate goodness.
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We’ll share what we’ve learned about the unique gifts and challenges that come with being an Innocent Dreamer. We’ll light a path that reveals the next steps along your journey of creating deeply meaningful, satisfying relationships.
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about us
We help those with painful childhood experiences heal their relationship with themselves, deepen their connection with others, and learn the skills for having fulfilling relationships.
We created the Five Relationship Archetypes and the Relationship Yes! Test to help people better understand themselves and their patterns in relationships.
Our work also includes the Ask Angela relationship advice column and podcast, as well as the Alchemy of Connection podcast.
We founded the Institute for Trauma Informed Relationships where we offer certification and consultation provide therapists and coaches in trauma informed relationship counseling.
Angela Amias, LCSW
Fulfilling relationships are an essential part of living a good life. Yet, many of us (perhaps even most of us) have core wounds from childhood experiences that affect our ability to have the kinds of intimate relationships in adulthood that we long to have.
As a licensed therapist, I’ve worked with hundreds of individuals and couples to help them heal past trauma and create more meaningful, satisfying relationships with themselves and with intimate partners.
Alongside Daniel, I developed the Five Relationship Archetypes as a model that reflects the different ways that childhood relationship trauma impacts our adult relationships.
This model takes into account our unique and inborn temperaments as well as the kinds of messages we internalize during childhood — about ourselves and how we need to be in order to have relationships with others. And, more importantly, it lays out a path toward healing, by first helping you reconnect with the parts of yourself that you lost along the way … parts that weren’t accepted or safe to express when you were growing up.
It’s my belief that difficult experiences break us open to become more of who we are meant to be.
As a trauma survivor myself, and as a therapist, I’ve made it my mission to walk alongside others as you find your path toward healing and discovering a life of more meaning and joy.
I’ve been featured in a range of publications, including Today, Oprah, Cosmopolitan, Well + Good, The Independent, Salon, Inc., Forbes, Toronto Sun, Women’s Health, and Refinery29.
Daniel Boscaljon, PHD
The most important relationship you’ll ever have is the one you have with yourself.
It’s also true that your connections with others can never be better than your relationship with yourself, which is why healing painful or traumatic experiences from childhood is such a vital part of having meaningful, satisfying relationships in adulthood.
My own personal search for how to cultivate a meaningful life came after years of feeling disconnected from others and from myself.
Though I entered graduate school focused on the intellectual aspects of earning a PhD in Religious Studies (and then another one in English), I discovered along the way how to use what I learned to repair the inner fractures of my own life.
As I reconnected with myself, I found that I was better able to connect with others as well.
With over twenty years of experience working with individuals, I focus on translating theories of love into practical guidance that helps you create meaningful, fulfilling relationships.
I’ve presented internationally on the topics of love and intimacy, and have been interviewed in publications including NBC News, Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, MindBodyGreen, Forbes, Salon, FastCompany, Business Insider, and Verywell Mind.
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