Welcome, Passionate Warrior.
About the Passionate Warrior Archetype
When it comes to what matters to you most in life, you wear your heart on your sleeve.
While others might talk about love, your love is expressed through action. Those on the receiving end of your love feel it deeply.
Your loved ones both admire and rely on your courage and your loyalty. You have the ability to champion your relationships, fearlessly fighting for the good of those you care about. Those you’re closest to know exactly how valuable it is to have you in their corner during a time of crisis.
Not only are you capable, you’re also disciplined and guided by an inner sense of right and wrong.
You hold high standards for yourself and others—standards that are guided by your internal compass of what’s just, fair, and good.
You have clarity about your values and you’re not afraid of ruffling a few feathers when it comes to standing up for something that’s deeply important to you.
In a relationship with a partner, you’re willing to have spirited disagreements and you see this as a way of fighting for a better relationship.
You value mutual understanding. You know that being on the same team requires being on the same page about important topics.
Because you care deeply about these topics, you’ve thought a lot about them and you’re quite articulate about explaining how you see things.
As a Passionate Warrior, you’re great at identifying problems and creating solutions. And you possess the skills, talent, and drive to make real change in your own life and in the world at large.
You’re able to translate your past experiences into guiding principles of what works and what doesn’t, which makes you a great teacher and leader, especially because you focus on the greater good. You have a clear connection to an inner truth, which makes it easier for you to assert what you believe with confidence and defend your boundaries when necessary.
Hold tight to your passion for what you believe. Now it’s time to also start making more space to welcome the riches that come with a diversity of perspectives in relationships.
Check your inbox for our welcome email, which has a link to download your guide to the Passionate Warrior.
We’ll share what we’ve learned about the unique gifts and challenges that come with being a Passionate Warrior. 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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