In my work over the years, I’ve often noticed how quickly people absorb the idea that healing after a breakup requires cutting someone off completely: no contact, no feeling, no looking back. This advice is often well-intended, but it can quietly turn the process of healing after a breakup into self-criticism. After a breakup, emotions […]
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In spending hundreds of hours with couples and families, I frequently observe how difficult it is to effectively express our feelings and needs. While we have significantly grown in other areas of our lives, such as productivity, why is it so hard for us to make progress in this area?When an issue arises between two
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I now see the meaning of my own creativity not as a way to stand out, be original or superior, but as the unexpected pathway towards powerful human connection with everyone who has struggled to observe and best express their life experiences. What a humbling, freeing, and comforting discovery!
It has been three weeks of adaptation. While the professionals have been working intensely on finding solutions to the virus crisis, attending to the sick, developing policies and communication strategies, or performing their essential services duties, we have been sitting at home, working (or not), eating, shopping, and looking after children and elderly. We are
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In love, it seems that often incongruity, misunderstanding, miscommunication, and triggered trauma are what engage us day-to-day and minute-to-minute. However, if you take a breath and submerge under all this, you are likely to discover the powerful and unwavering simplicity of indisputable, unforgiving love. When love is at work, everything else submits to it. We
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