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The pattern

You may have built a life that looks good from the outside: the business, the partnership, the family, the success.

And still, there is a fight — or a silence — that keeps finding you.

A partner says something that gets under your skin. A co-founder challenges you. Someone disappoints you. Somewhere in the middle of it, you lose contact with what you feel and what you need.

The pattern does not begin with the other person. It begins when you leave yourself.

You may already understand why. You have done the therapy, read the books, gone on the retreats. But insight alone does not change what happens in the moment friction starts.

This is for you if…

You are a founder, an entrepreneur or a creative — and in many ways, you are your work.

✺ You built something from nothing, and you still carry most of it alone.

✺ What happens at home follows you into your work — and your work follows you home.

✺ You replay a message for an hour before sending it.

✺ You turn down help the moment it is offered.

✺ You avoid the hard conversation — with your partner, your co-founder, your collaborator — until it becomes a crisis.

✺ You are brilliant under pressure, and lose yourself in the smallest conflict at home.

About Lucy

Lucy Vittrup Christensen is a founder and therapist. For 25 years, she has worked with founders, entrepreneurs, public figures and their partnerships.

She has written hundreds of articles, authored two books and co-authored two more. She has coached high performers on major TV shows and C-suite leaders across industries and around the globe.

Her TEDx talk, Love in 96 Ways, explored the many ways we seek connection. For years, in talks and in the media, she has asked: “Will artificial intelligence lead to artificial intimacy?”