Connected But Free – A Course For Healthy, Fulfilling Relationships

Door Melina Offenburger

Wat je zal leren

In this course, you’ll find a holistic approach designed to help you experience authentic closeness and deep connection while preserving your freedom. This balance isn’t always easy — many of us tend either to lose ourselves by putting others first in relationships or to withdraw completely out of caution or fear. This course will show you how to navigate this tension in a healthy and fulfilling way. Here’s an overview of the course goals and what you can expect on your journey: Practical exercises that help you rediscover and honor yourself and your personal boundaries. A safe space where you can acknowledge and transform both the light and the shadows of your past. Lasting insights and tools to cultivate sustainable, healthy, and fulfilling relationships. This journey will support you in gaining profound insights and taking your relationships to a new level of connection and freedom.

Melina Offenburger

Wien, Österreich

Melina is a psychologist, mental trainer, and mindfulness coach. In her work, she combines solid psychological knowledge with practical methods to support people on their journey toward greater self-confidence, inner clarity, and fulfilling relationships. Her approach is deeply shaped by personal experience: she once struggled to recognize and...

Les 1

Between Merging And Withdrawing: How To Find Your Balance

In this opening session, we explore one of the biggest relationship challenges: how to stay connected without losing yourself. You’ll reflect on your patterns of over-adapting or withdrawing and begin to reconnect with your boundaries—physically and emotionally. Through gentle self-inquiry and a grounding body practice, this lesson sets the foundation for building healthier, more authentic relationships.

Les 2

Beyond Your Lens: How To Stop Taking Things So Personally

In this session, you’ll explore how past experiences shape the way you interpret others’ words and actions – often leading to hurt or misunderstandings. Through a powerful 3-step perspective-shifting exercise, you'll learn how to soften your reactions, see through the eyes of others, and respond with more clarity and compassion. This lesson helps you step out of reactive patterns and into conscious connection.

Les 3

The Space Between Us: How To Sense And Communicate Your Boundaries

In this session, you’ll explore the subtle space between closeness and distance — and how your body holds the key to knowing what feels right for you. Through a grounding somatic exercise, you’ll reconnect with your physical boundaries, notice your comfort zones, and learn how to express them with clarity and care. This lesson helps you feel safe in connection — without needing to withdraw or overextend.

Les 4

Living In Alignment: Protect What Truly Matters

Today’s session helps you clarify what matters to you — your core values — and how they can guide your boundaries in relationships. Through a guided visualization and reflection, you’ll identify your most important values and explore how to live and protect them with clarity, self-respect, and compassion. This lesson supports you in building relationships that feel aligned, meaningful, and true to who you are.

Les 5

Speak Your Truth: How To Express Needs Without Creating Conflict

Today’s session introduces you to Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a simple yet transformative method to express your feelings and needs with clarity and compassion. You’ll learn the 4 key steps of NVC and how to apply them in real-life conversations — so you can stop people-pleasing, reduce conflict, and stay connected even in challenging moments. This lesson empowers you to speak up without shutting others down.

Les 6

Gratitude As Healing: Remembering The Good That Helped You Grow

In this gentle session, you’ll explore how gratitude can become a powerful force for healing and connection. Through a guided visualization, you’ll reconnect with the people, moments, and memories that supported you — even in difficult times. You’ll also learn the Butterfly Hug technique to regulate your nervous system as you process emotion. This practice helps open your heart while staying grounded and safe.

Les 7

A New Beginning: Integrating Your Growth Into Everyday Life

This final session is a heartfelt invitation to reflect on your journey and everything you've discovered over the past seven days. You’ll revisit the insights that touched you most, celebrate your progress, and explore how to carry this deeper self-awareness into your daily life. This is not the end — it’s the beginning of a more connected, grounded, and authentic chapter.

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