Category: Marriage and Couples
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Growing a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 2
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi In this article we will look at how to work with the negativity that arises within us through conversations with our partner in marriage. In the previous post, part…
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How to Grow a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 1
If there is one thing a couple can do to grow a richer marriage it would be to deepen the emotional conversations. It takes some simple learning, a little courage and a hell of a lot of curiosity. The art of emotional conversation and the art of making love are very similar. The end…
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How to Rebuild Trust in Marriage: Emotional Honesty
How to rebuild trust in a marriage requires an emotional honesty that can be learned. Trust is foundational for a human beings’ development and happiness from birth through adulthood. Therefore, the opportunity to work with trust issues is profound for the growth of individuals as well as the relationship. Healing a breach of trust is…
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Body Image Issues: How to Live in Our Own Skin
Body image issues are inherent in our culture. Women, as well as men, are healing this problem by waking up to what it is and how it operates insidiously within our culture and within individuals. Body image definition: ‘Body image refers to how people see themselves. Distorted body image (also called negative body image) refers to…
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Emotional Intelligence Coupled with Thinking
We can develop intelligent emotionality or feeling just as we can develop intelligent thinking. Emotions range from the most ecstatic love and appreciation to the most negative and painful. They are as significant to our inner nature as water is to our outer nature. When our inner water/emotion dries up or freezes over, our spirit…
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Spiritual/Psychological Counseling? Christian Counseling? Buddhist Counseling?
Spiritual/Psychological Counseling? Christian Counseling? Buddhist Counseling? What is the best way to go with psychotherapy? How spiritual meets with psychological in psychotherapy is very important. One may or may not support the other as they are each brought into individual counseling, couples or marriage counseling, and family counseling. Much of this integration depends on the…
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“Never Go to Bed Angry”, (Anger as a Doorway)
“Never go to bed angry” was derived from a bible verse: “let not the sun go down upon your wrath” Ephesians 4:26. Ideally, this is a very good suggestion, but what if you cannot do this? When in fact, you stay up most of the night angry and are angry for days. I feel angry…
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Relationship Advice My Ego Does Not Want to Hear
In the previous post I said, “The power of a confused ego is underestimated.” This confusion can harm our relationships or serve as a doorway into deeper, richer, more intimate relationships. In that article I was showing how the ego can mistakingly distort our view of other people, spiritual practices or life it- self. This…
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Sex Therapist or Regular Psychotherapist?
When any of our instinctual functions are out of balance, we can look a little deeper to find sources of emotional and physiological disruption. Sexuality is an instinct of human nature, similar to how we eat, how we care for ourselves, and how we sleep at night. It may show itself as a sexual problem…
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The Objectives of Marriage and Family Counseling
Marriage and Family Counseling for Satisfying Relationships The primary objective of marriage and family counseling is to improve relationships. There is a method to having satisfying relationships. It is not just a free for all. There are particular skills and guidelines just as there are skills and guidelines for driving a car. You don’t get to…
