RELATIONAL MINDFULNESS FOR COUPLES OF ALL CONFIGURATIONS
Like it or not, we live in a relational world. Life is about being in relationships: cardinal, platonic, shades of gray, blood related, and everything in between. Being in relationships takes conscious work which is sometimes enjoyable and sometimes challenging. This work gets easier when we get better acquainted with ourselves and more authentic with the other. If you pay attention, since birth, our relationships follow a repeated rhythm of: closeness, disruption, repair.
I work with couples who want to stay together, AND also those wanting to open their marriages, divorce, and/or consciously uncouple. I work with couples to better understand themselves and their contribution to their dance. Helping a person understand when behaving from their "adaptive child" (required from childhood) versus being present in their "functional adult" (required for adulthood) creates a changed experience in the tango they enact with their partner. To do this, I work experientially in the room exploring your knee jerk young responses, bodies and minds. I teach couples self and co-regulation, active listening, boundaries, intimacy and Nonviolent communication skills. This is combined with increased awareness of body sensations and language to forge greater harmony and a better dance to resolving conflicts.
My approach to couples work is influenced by Somatic informed Attachment Theory, Esther Perel, Terry Real, Hakomi and Stan Tatkin.
This work is useful to those who: • Are considering commitment, moving in together, marriage.
• Want to increase emotional and/or physical intimacy.
• Struggling to communicate kindly and have healthy confrontation.
• Want to change the configuration of their relationship to explore open or poly lifestyles.
• Want to overcome infidelity and rebuild trust.
• Want to consciously break up, separate or divorce.
I am also a recognized "relationship expert" who has contributed a chapter to the book HeartWise: Deepening and Evolving Love Relationships, which is now available as a paperback and ebook on Amazon.
I was the featured guest on the Podcast "Relationshi*t" with Kami Crawford talking about relationships. Here