Your Relationships Deserve 30 – 40 Minutes of Healthy Communication & Gratitude Sharing Daily
“After you made me do that self-assessment thing, and my accountability group wanted me to work on at 998 things instead of three, I’m not sure I take any more this week!” If you’ve been following me for the past month, you know I began the series working a couple through a marriage who thought […]
To Restore Any Relationship: TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHO YOU ARE IN THE RELATIONSHIP AND TAKE MASSIVE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO CORRECT AND/OR IMPROVE IT!
“You saw on the video that I torpedoed my walls and the barricades around my heart last week! Are we done yet? ‘Cause you are wearing me out!“ What a twinkle in my eyes, I responded: “Those are the most hopeful words I’ve heard since we started! Because when we get to the end of […]
To Heal A Wrecked Relationship, You Must Dream Together, Really Listen and Take the Barricade Around Your Heart Down!
“I just can’t wait to see what you have for us this week … after I took that dance lesson to re-create my marriage … and made a fool out of myself!“ It has been so much fun working with this couple (I’ve been sharing their story over the past few weeks) that we will […]
Key to Healing Wrecked Relationships: Join Hands & Become Partners … Healing Partners!
“So we saw a miracle last week when you turned me into ‘bougie’ (referring to ‘boujee’ or ‘bourgeoisie’”) … but I’m not sure we can do that two weeks in a row.” After chuckling, I asked him to define “bougie” for me. With jolliness in his voice and on his face, he responded: “I’m not sure… […]
You Can Resurrect Murdered Marriages & Wrecked Relationships
“There’s just so much sewage under our bridge, I think you’ll agree this marriage is dead!” He had read my blog the week before: “Don’t Murder Your Marriage or Wreck Your Relationships.” And in that context, his next sentence will make sense: “I may have murdered it or wrecked it myself. But it sure seems […]
DON’T MURDER YOUR MARRIAGE OR WRECK YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
“What are the most frequent ways you see people murder their marriages?“ The host of the broadcast took me by surprise with that poignant question. It was like a real blow to my gut. I took a deep breath and responded with: “WOW! What a loaded question!“ He responded wisely by remarking, “I don’t know […]
Welcome to the Road Less Traveled
“You really can’t go back after all we’ve learned and experienced, can you?” These were the words spoken to me just this week after the graduation as a group of stellar Master Life Coaching Institute class of coaches. I just nodded and smiled lovingly. As he smiled and walked away, he looked over his shoulder […]
Five Things You Must Add to Your Owner’s Manual
“So I think I understand what you’re saying about this Owner’s Manual stuff. And if you can just tell me about three good reasons I should spend my time and energy doing it, maybe I will!“ I could see by the way he had thrown his nose up in the air in narcissistic style, by […]
5 Steps to Editing Your Owner’s Manual for An Amazingly Fulfilled Life
“I’ve snatched so many pages out of my Owner’s Manual that I don’t even know who I am anymore!“ Because her Owner’s Manual had so many self-defeating, disempowering and conflicting entries, it made total sense to me why she had done so much snatching. Our Owner’s Manual. As I mentioned last week in my blog […]
Five Entries to Modify in Your Owner’s Manual So You Can Soar
“My Owner’s Manual was written by a psycho!“ Unfortunately, when I learned what her mother had written in her Owner’s Manual about her, and how her dad had actually reinforced it, I actually couldn’t disagree with her statement. We all have one. We all have an Owner’s Manual that has specific instructions about who we […]