Many people, including myself earlier in life, view friendship and even love as something requiring chaos and dysfunction. It’s what many people saw growing up, and so it is how they define a close or intimate relationship. So if the highs and lows are missing in a relationship, many people will create it in order […]
Reboot Your Relationship and Breakthrough the Upper Limit Barriers to Love!! When you hit the wall with your relationship what do you do? Read on and then listen to the above link!! If a couple wants to unlock their relationship potential, and really deepen over time, they need to clear the decks and get to […]
Life is about relationships. Connection is why we are here. Health is social — it is what gives us meaning, purpose and healing in our lives. This is our path and practice of love, healing fractured relationships and restoring the loss of social capital in society. ‘Our stories are not meant for everyone. Hearing […]
I get asked this question all the time by singles and couples— “what is a relationship?” Consider “Relationship as a Practice…” First we must understand that there is an internal struggle ‘within’ and ‘between’ and the relationship itself is a mirror for some of the unconscious relationship wounds and ‘hot-wired’ patterns that trigger us. Marianne […]
When working with couples one of the critical skills (basic core skills) is listening, understanding, and validating (LUV Talk). Just because you hear something doesn’t mean you’re listening. Listening isn’t just a skill, it’s one of the keys to wisdom. It requires a calm and genuine curiosity to truly ‘understand’ something or someone for the […]
Cheating is one of the top reasons why marriages fall apart. However, this woman stayed in even after her husband got an affair. Why she did it and what happened next is unbelievable!
These 4 behaviors are poison to relationships. Watch this and find out how to avoid them. Criticism: It’s okay (and can be healthy) to complain about what’s wrong in your relationship, the problem arises when complaining turns into criticizing. A complaint focuses on the event or behavior you want to change, whereas criticism attacks […]
This week our theme is “Conflict Relief.” It’s about getting to the core issue and doing our best to clear it so it doesn’t run our life. Ironically, by talking about ‘conflict relief,’ what do you think happened? We invited more “conflict” in. In other words, the “storms” are brewing and in order to burn […]
Many people, including myself earlier in life, view friendship and even love as something requiring chaos and dysfunction. It’s what many people saw growing up, and so it is how they define a close or intimate relationship. So if the highs and lows are missing in a relationship, many people will create it in […]