Why we’re drawn to familiar pain-and how to finally choose partners from a healed place

People assume poor relationship outcomes come from picking the “wrong” partners, but attraction is often shaped by childhood imprints long before logic enters the picture. Patterns like chasing, caretaking, withdrawing, or conflict anxiety are attempts to repair old emotional wounds through new relationships. Christina helps people recognize how these imprints drive attraction, so they can break the cycle of choosing what feels familiar rather than what feels healthy. Her couples and individual work shows how healing childhood wounds shifts who someone seeks, trusts, and allows close.

About Christina Prokos

Christina Prokos, podcast guest

Intuitive Life, Spiritual Coach & a Shaman Helping People Understand Their Childhood Wounds, Shadow Patterns, and Emotional Safety

Certified Intuitive counsellor, life coach & spiritual healerFeatured Just Breathe magazine8 weeks Virtual group workshop programmesAuthor Embrace Your Shadows

Christina Prokos is an intuitive life and spiritual coach and a shaman whose work blends inner child healing, shadow work, and the energetic abilities she’s had since early childhood. Born into a family of highly intuitive women and aware of her gifts as young as age two or three, she learned early how deeply childhood environments shape a person’s emotional reality. Today, she uses those abilities to read energy, sense core wounds, and understand how someone’s early experiences continue to influence their patterns, relationships, and coping mechanisms.

Her path into this work wasn’t polished or pre-planned. Christina tried to avoid her intuitive abilities for years—studying other fields, numbing emotions through partying and drinking, and doing anything she could to quiet her sensitivity. But her gifts repeatedly pushed her back toward the work she now does fully online with clients around the world. Many come to her after years of therapy or self-help tools that brought insight but not real change. Her ability to trace a person’s emotional patterns back to their original wound helps them understand why they feel stuck and why their patterns make sense.

Christina’s approach is grounded, direct, and deeply rooted in the fundamentals she sees across all human behavior: safety, belonging, and connection.

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