“Forget about the notion that our emotions can be kept at bay” Dave Matthews Walking this morning and pondering the hard lessons that creating fundament shift in relationship is deeply challenging with only one trying to change. This hard lesson is coming...
Despite what zillions of individuals believe, write prose and poetry about, sing, clash, fight and sadly even kill about, “Love is NOT a mystery!” It is a survival code deeply wired into our DNA, and the DNA of all mammals. It is a language. This language...
“I now know that I want to be accepted for who I am from “F’d Up to Fabulous!” – male client of Joseph’s. If acceptance of your “Whole Self” is a goal of yours in relationship… Join Cynthia Benge and I for: Hold Me...
After 10 months of Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, the female partner of a couple who came into therapy reeling from an infidelity and an reactive domestic violence who was able to lean into a very old fear and stay engaged with her partner. When questioned,...
A very lovely moment occurred during a couple session a few days ago. 18 sessions in to Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy, a couple who came to me to address infidelity (on the husbands part – the penultimate behavior of disconnection, a disconnection that had...
Today I am launching a cooperative sharing of blogs with Mandy Traut, MA, LMHC. Mandy opens here by musing on the question, “How do you dance with your partner?” It’s All About Connection Mandy Traut, M.A, LMHC Over the years, I’ve heard many...
