Traditionally January is a time to think about goals. We were with the grandchildren in Ottawa last week and helped them develop categories for their goals. We used the categories school, friends, finances, family, etc. As adults, a key category could be your relationship. Relationship Goals: Vision If improving your relationship is one of your […]
Day 12 of Relationship Tips: Review
Relationship Review: 12 Days of Christmas Here is a relationship review of my holiday relationship tips. My contention has always been that the tools are available in today’s world to have the relationship of your dreams. I am a coach; and just like I didn’t invent hockey but I can coach it; I didn’t invent […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 11
The Essence of a Conscious Partnership If Harville Hendrix, and Helen LaKelly Hunt were to take all the insights they’ve gained about love relationships in the past thirty years and reduce them to their essence, we would summarize them in the following five sentences. Accept the reality that your partner is not you. Be an […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 10: Imago
Imago Relationship Therapy A key insight is Imago Relationship Therapy. Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, had all those years ago was that the unconscious image a child forms of their primary caretakers (the Imago which is the Latin word for image) – of the person who loves me, who takes care of […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 9
The 5 Love Languages Gary Chapman wrote this book over 20 years ago but the concepts still make a lot of sense. He likened the way we receive and give love to languages. For example, if I was speaking English but my primary language was French, Italian, German, or Spanish it would make it harder […]
Holiday Relationship Tip 8
Anything Negative by Appointment Only Think about the negative from your old brain point of view. If I don’t know when the attack is coming or where the arrow is coming from, for sure I will have my armour on. It is hard to be intimate when you are both clanking around the same house […]
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