I am not sure where I originally found this but I thought I would pass it on. We are out of February now, the love month, but it is a good reminder in any case of what happy couples do. See how many of the 20 you are doing with your partner. 20 Habits of […]
The Imago Therapist (con’t)
Last week when we began the discussion about The Imago Therapist, the authors asked four questions. The answers to which would influence how I and other Imago therapists work with couples. I went on to say that we all, at some level, whether consciously or unconsciously have also answered those questions, and that our answers […]
The Imago Therapist
I hope all of you had a great family day yesterday. Heard from my daughter, their family was camping in Gatineau and on the ski out ran into a 7-foot moose who then tailed them. Nothing like that here in Windsor. In any case, the last two weeks I shared Harville and Helen’s comments on […]
Celebration of Love
This month we are bombarded with ideals of romance. Grand gestures, extravagant displays of affection and expensive dinners seem to be the way to share your love. But is that what really fuels LOVE in our relationships for the rest of the year? Over our 30 years of working with couples, we have a different […]
Chap. 9: The Imago Dialogue – Empathy
The third step of the Safe Conversation Process is empathy – getting in touch with the sender’s feelings. Empathy is the communication to another person that you hear and understand his or her feelings and that they make sense. It is really a guess at what they are feeling. I might say, “You seem angry”, […]
Chap 9. – Imago Dialogue: Validation
“To make somebody feel valued as a person, or feel that his or her ideas or opinions are worthwhile … is precisely what the second step of Imago Dialogue, validation, is meant to do. Very simply, it sends the message from the receiver to the sender, ‘You make sense, and what makes sense is …”(p.206) […]
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