Category: Relationship
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Reinventing the Concepts of Recovery
Wouldn’t it be great if we could wave our magic wand and no one would relapse? Until we understand more about addictions (and we have work to do there), we will have to tackle relapse in other ways. Let’s look at a couple of possible breakdowns that might lead to relapse and find some ways…
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Internalize Your Recovery for Success: No Self Esteem, No Problem!
Knowing something is one thing and putting it into action is another. Recovery is an area where the action part is paramount! So how do we do this? How do we take what we learn from books, talking and screens and put it into action? Practice Saying No Personally, I believe if my clients haven’t…
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To Love From Recovery: 5 Tips for Success!
We will look to some of our strong recovery tools for answers to having a strong, successful love relationship. Many very wise people have told us “If you can’t love yourself, you can’t love anyone else.” It is important to love yourself in order to have a successful recovery. When you start here and apply…
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Infidelity in Your Marriage Stage IV
“Cheating on a good person is like throwing away a diamond and picking up a rock”. In Stage IV the focus will be on reinventing yourself. Now you are living your life either as a single/parent or a couple healing from the betrayal in your marriage. When you are successful in this healing process, you…
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Dating After Divorce
Whether this is your first time in the dating world or you are newly divorced and entering the dating world, there are some steps you can take to help guard against divorce. There are no guarantees and why not do everything you can to live happily ever after with that someone special? Guess what: those…
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The Power of Conversation While Dating
One of the most powerful foundations of a successful marriage is the quality of conversations the couple can have together. What does this look like when you are dating? Let’s look at 5 domains of concern conversations, I believe will enrich your dating experiences. 1. Career Now that you are out to dinner, on a…
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Backbone Parenting: Parent or Friend?
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.” Carl Jung Parent: according to Webster’s dictionary, means a person who brings up and cares for another. Let’s think of our children as an empty vessel. The vessel, which we will say is the child’s individuality, is empty and needs to…