Trouble with Dating? Maybe it is Time to Start your Journey Instead

Dr. Jennifer B. Rhodes
6 min readApr 2, 2024
Photo by Javier Quiroga.

If I knew half the things that I know now, almost every single piece of advice I have given in the past that had “tips or tricks” would have been thrown out the window. What I now know personally and now professionally working in a more spiritual and shamanic way with my clients is this — if you are struggling with dating, it is a symptom of something larger that needs to heal. When we are in balance physically and emotionally, relationships are not that difficult. It is the reason why therapy hasn’t always been needed. But in modern times, when we are so disconnected from our ancestors and spirituality, any help you can get is a start to the path.

Oftentimes our complaints with dating are really about not getting our needs met. After a lot of healing, you will learn that it is not the other person’s job to assist you in getting your needs met but, yes, there needs to be teamwork and collaboration on a bigger vision. Otherwise the relationship will cease to go anywhere. Sometimes we discuss those needs as sexual and sometimes we discuss those needs as more love based. Whatever the complaint is, we now know that it represents an energetic imbalance in the body. It is very common, from an energetic perspective, that the sacral chakra which represents our emotions, desires and relationships is out of balance with the throat chakra…

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Dr. Jennifer B. Rhodes

Sex & Relationship Alchemist | Author & Speaker | Intuitive | Psychologist @jenniferbrhodes