As a relationship coach who feels passionate about helping her clients to create strong, loving, long-term relationships and who sees couples make beautiful changes all the time, it saddens me that there are still a lot of misconceptions about couples counselling.
Are you wondering if your marriage or long-term relationship could be better, but you or your partner are buying into any of these common misconceptions?
Category: Coaching
Are You Struggling to Get to Peace And Joy?
The holidays can bring some stressful experiences with them. Gift-giving can stretch our budget, organizing everything can deplete our energy, and family gatherings can challenge our patience. So how can we still be filled with peace and joy, no matter how the holidays unfold?
The Five Most Common Fights and How to Handle Them
Some fights are not at all what they seem. What we are fighting about is not the real trigger. A fight could be about underlying beliefs and feelings, childhood projections, fear of loss, or value differences. Here are 5 common types of fights according to relationship coach and author Jayson Gaddis.
Join Us for a Chat on Long-Term Committed Relationships
When is the right time to hire a relationship coach? Couples who believe that you only hire a coach when there are serious issues miss the opportunity to learn more productive interactions when there is only a “small fire,” as opposed to the entire “relationship house standing in flames”. Thankfully, more and more young couples realize how smart it is to create a solid foundation. They want to learn and establish habits of successful couples, for example how to have productive conflicts and how to show up together as a strong team from the start.
6 Ways of Creating a Stronger Relationship with Your Adult Children
Are you struggling with your relationship with your mother or father? Or are you a parent of one or more adult children, wishing for a better or different relationship? Here are 6 ways of creating a stronger relationship between parents and adult children.
What Does it Take for Pandemic Relationships to Last?
The pandemic has been a real stress test for relationships. Most couples encounter different issues regarding finances, health, and family over the course of their relationship or marriage. But whereas in the past those challenges would have come up slowly over time, COVID forced new partners to confront them from the start. At the same time, a lot of stress that normally affects relationships through “third party interactions” was removed through the artificiality of the bubble.
As we are looking ahead, we need to ask how couples can maintain healthy boundaries with others and show up as a unit with third parties, including the extended family?
Surprising Benefits of Decluttering and Downsizing
Over the last four weeks, I have gone through a period of major purging, organizing, decluttering, and downsizing. There are some surprising benefits to this whole process of completing one phase of our life before moving to the next stage in life.
MARRIAGE: Tired of Arguments and Unsolvable Problems
COVID-19 has created an unusual situation for our marriages and close love relationships. Suddenly many couples were forced to live and work in close quarters, often struggling with financial hardships and worried about their health, about educating and entertaining their children at home and about the future in general. The close and constant proximity has highlighted their differences and accentuated their conflicts and doubts to a point where the pressure has become unbearably painful.
How does muscle testing work online?
PSYCH-K® and Shadow Energetics both use applied Kinesiology, also referred to as “muscle testing” or “energy testing”, to communicate with your subconscious mind and check what beliefs you are holding. The one question I have been asked repeatedly over the last three months is, “How does this muscle testing you do work online?” An online session is not that different from an in-person session. Here is how it works…
PSYCH-K® And Getting Yourself Online
In recent months, people all over the world have been catapulted into using a variety of online portals to connect and meet with colleagues and friends, to buy groceries and other products, to learn virtually or to offer our own services online. But what if we really want to be online to offer our services to others or to learn ourselves but we have doubts? Underneath doubts are limiting beliefs and those can be easily shifted with belief change techniques like PSYCH-K®.
Doing the Best That We Can
Who loves adversity and especially a crisis like the one we are all facing right now? Right! Our Inner Critic! Our Inner Critic is that nagging voice inside, which is trying to protect us by letting us know in which ways we are “faulty” or not doing enough. No matter how well we are doing, the Inner Critic will find something that apparently needs to be improved, and it loves to compare us to others who are supposedly doing better or more.
Online Sessions During COVID-19 Crisis
How can we continue connecting in this difficult time, so that you can still get all the benefits of a session with me, despite restrictions and social distancing?