Optimal Energetic Balance with The Unseen Therapist The Self Revolution: Personal Mastery as Relationship Medicine
- Taye Bela Corby
- Jun 27
- 5 min read
How many times have you had the SAME conflict with someone you love? Different words, same energy, same outcome?
I lived that way for years. Every relationship I witnessed growing up ended in divorce, and I could never understand how people who loved each other could wind up being so cruel to one another. My broken heart led me to try fixing everyone I loved—doing everything to avoid the pain of feeling so disconnected.
But here's what I discovered with the help of The Unseen Therapist: there's something happening in these moments that most of us have never been taught to see...
But first I had to let go of everything I thought I knew about self-care in relationships. Bubble baths and boundaries did not transform my long-term intimate relationships. Real self-care began for me when I became aware of the ways my unconscious patterns negatively affect the people I care about most.
The Unseen Therapist isn't a person you can see or touch. As this group knows very well, she's a loving intelligence inside of you—what some people call intuition, inner wisdom, or divine guidance. You know that moment when you're struggling with something and suddenly—maybe in the shower, maybe on a walk—clarity just comes? Not from thinking harder, but from a deeper knowing that cuts through all the noise. This is who I'm talking about.
When The Unseen Therapist entered my life in 2014, I began experiencing her as a consistent, loving presence that helps me navigate my closest relationships. She doesn't fix my problems for me, but she illuminates patterns I can't see on my own and gently guides me toward choices that nourish my soul.
The Unseen Therapist taught me something revolutionary: In every relationship, there are actually two relationships happening—the relationship I have with myself and the relationship I have with the other person. Most of us focus only on the external relationship while neglecting the internal one. I was one of those people too.
But here's her key insight: The most primary relationship is always the one I have with my Self.
The Unseen Therapist has been teaching me that ALL of my relationships could get better through ONE thing only:
Developing a deeper relationship with your Self.
She calls this maintaining "Optimal Energetic Balance"—and suggests that my personal mastery IS relationship medicine.
Here's how it works: When you give slightly more attention to your relationship with yourself—let's say about 51%—you can maintain your center while still being genuinely available for connection with others. That other 49% becomes free to create relational space and be available for co-creative endeavors.
This isn't about becoming selfish. It's about mastering the domain of your Self—with a capital S—so that you show up whole, authentic, and present in any given moment and in every relationship.
The Unseen Therapist showed me: When I tend to my inner relationship first, I stop trying to use other people to fix what only I can heal.
Let me paint a picture of what The Unseen Therapist calls the threshold moment—that split second where unconscious patterns meet conscious choice.
Imagine you're in a conversation and suddenly you feel that surge of pressure building inside. Maybe it's anger that wants to blame, hurt that wants to be rescued, or fear that wants to be soothed. My nervous system is designed to discharge these feelings onto someone else. It's almost automatic.
But The Unseen Therapist whispers: "Pause. Is this feeling yours to feel and process, or are you trying to make someone else responsible for fixing it?"
My epiphany came when I realized I could feel all my emotions within my own space without spilling them onto others. Not suppressing them, but containing them as valuable information that belongs to me.
This is optimal energetic boundaries—where my emotional responsibility ends and another person's begins.
The Unseen Therapist taught me: The most loving thing I can do is take ownership of my inner world, especially my pain, instead of making it someone else's job to manage. Even when it is my pain—is it mine to resolve, or surrender?
When I practice this deeper relationship with my Self through The Unseen Therapist's guidance, here's what changes:
In conflict: Instead of trying to make the other person wrong, I get curious about what's triggered in me. The Unseen Therapist asks: "What part of you is rigid or fixed? What are you trying to protect?"
In difficult conversations: I can be fully present without disappearing into your experience. I care about your feelings without making them my responsibility to fix.
With irreconcilable differences: When my authentic truth conflicts with someone else's, instead of fighting about who's right, The Unseen Therapist guides me to create new solutions from what we each genuinely need.
Communication is vitally important here and so challenging for me—because it means I need to know what I need and what I need to protect in order to generate new possibilities.
This creates what she calls sacred space—pregnant potential, uncontaminated by past resentments or future fears. The Unseen Therapist reminds me that this shared relational space is pure co-creative possibility.
I have to be honest: I don't really know if what I'm saying is real or will happen. I only feel this as a guiding principle that has often been a failed experiment in my own life. Sometimes I question The Unseen Therapist—Is this real guidance, or are my thoughts having conversations?
But what I completely believe is in the power of imagination. Can I literally dream all of my long-term close relationships into being as sovereign, free, and emotionally connected? Can I open to receive love while staying anchored in my own truth? Can I trust that this shared space of pregnant potential is worth my energy to generate and protect? Am I willing to have this reality?
Perhaps I am my own love story, writing it as I live by perfecting my dream and acknowledging the blessing of even having these waking thoughts about my own relationship vision. Maybe proof comes later? Maybe the willingness to keep dreaming it into being IS becoming the proof.
What I can say is this feels like a much better use of my energy than trying to control or fix others. When I contain my charged emotions within my own field, I watch lower energies naturally transform into higher ones. When I do my inner work to free myself from old patterns, I feel genuinely nourished and more confident in my ability to make conscious decisions and follow through on them.
The Unseen Therapist whispers: "Your willingness to keep experimenting with love is the revolution itself."
This is The Self Revolution—not fixing others, not managing relationships from the outside, but mastering my own consciousness as the medicine I need to be the partner I want to be in every relationship.
You already have access to your own Unseen Therapist—that quiet voice that knows the truth, that part of you that sees through drama to what really matters.
For newcomers: You don't need a system. Just representing yourself accurately is enough to start. Opening to the parts of yourself that are rigid, without having to fix anything.
The question I leave you with: What if the most radical thing you could do for every relationship in your life is to develop a deeper, more honest, more loving relationship with your Self?
What if that one shift could change everything?
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