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What Conscious Partners Know (con’t)

Diving back in What Conscious Partners Know from Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt’s Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space-Between Number 9, 10, and 11 They come together to participate in the sometimes painful, sometimes joyful dance of romantic partnership, and they know why. That anxiety gets aroused between them. How to take steps […]

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What Conscious Partners Know (con’t)

What Conscious Partners Know (con’t) Numbers 6-8 from Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space-Between They have complimentary defenses that are natural, and they accept that fact about each other, without judgment. They can reconstruct the memory their partner has of them by expressing new behaviours with intensity. They are different from each other and […]

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What Conscious Partners Know

Let’s explore what conscious partners know. I would characterize most relationships, certainly ours was before we knew about Imago Relationship Therapy. It is described as unconscious, old brain, and reactive. For example, if my partner came on too strong, my reactive response was to shut down. If I step back and look at that response, […]

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Chapter 5: Personalizing Your Relationship Playbook

In this chapter, I will help personalize your relationship playbook. As a coach, whether it was hockey or football, I was privy to many different playbooks, but I always personalized them for our team. Any adaptions we made might be either to take advantage of the talent I had available at different positions or to […]

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Chapter 4: The Imago System: The Past Affects the Present

The last piece of the combination lock is the Imago System. Harville and Helen made a huge intuitive leap in our understanding of relationships by making the connection between the unconscious image – the  Imago (Imago is the Latin word for image) children form of their primary caretakers from childhood (the person who loves me, […]

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Chapter 3 – Skills: The Safe Conversation Process

Coming up to Valentine’s Day – the tools are available in today’s world to have the relationship of your dreams.  So far we have seen the importance of safety. Your old reptilian brain has a 500 million-year track record, you are not going to change it. If you don’t feel safe you will protect yourself. […]

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Relationship Issues

Truth 1: Romantic Love is a Trick 

This first chapter of Making Marriage Simple is written by Helen. One of the key insights of Imago Relationship Therapy is the understanding that we tend to be attracted, in an adult intimate relationship, to someone who has some of both the positive, but also the negative traits of our original caretakers. Imago is the […]

Making Marriage Simple

In 2013 Harville Hendrix and his wife, Helen LaKelly Hunt, wrote the little book Making Marriage Simple, 10 Relationship Saving Truths. “We’ve distilled the key concepts of our original book Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, and added the most important relationship wisdom we’ve discovered since.” (p.1) The book is aimed at […]

Strategies

Over the next few weeks, I will share some strategies that I originally wrote about in my first book Create the Relationship of Your Dreams (2015). I accidentally came across the book in England when we were there celebrating our 50th wedding anniversary. A friend had the book, which I had completely forgotten about, but […]

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