What Imagery Best Describes Your Intimate Relationship?

What Imagery Best Describes Your Intimate Relationship? Think about the question for a moment. Would you describe your relationship as an adventurous open air balloon ride drifting freely over a cloud filled sunny sky? Or would a dark room with rusted iron windows bolted shut be an apt description? Exploring Your Ultimate End-Point Establishing successful [...]

By |2017-10-27T21:40:13-07:00February 12th, 2015|Relationships|Comments Off on What Imagery Best Describes Your Intimate Relationship?

The Overly Involved Mother/Son Relationship

When a father is physically or emotionally absent, the parents frequently can't form a healthy bond with each other, much less with their children. Frequently, the mother may attempt to bond with the oldest son to satisfy her unmet emotional needs. Subsequently, the son's self-esteem becomes defined by his mother. Fortunately, individual therapy and counseling [...]

By |2017-10-27T21:41:20-07:00January 14th, 2015|Assertive Communicaiton, Relationships, Self-Care Strategies, Self-Esteem|Comments Off on The Overly Involved Mother/Son Relationship

Gender Roles and How They Limit Us

Gender Roles and How They Limit Us Gender roles are forces that tend to separate men and women. We hear phrases like, "he is just a boy," or, "girls are fragile." We assign these roles to children who grow up to be adults who have limited tools to understand, let alone deal with, these perceived [...]

By |2017-10-27T21:41:47-07:00January 7th, 2015|Assertive Communicaiton, Educational, Men's Issues, Relationships|Comments Off on Gender Roles and How They Limit Us

Open vs. Closed Relationship Styles

Getting into a new relationship takes a lot of work, courage, trust, and practicing of boundaries. These days many people tend to jump into a new relationship unencumbered by any past traditions from our parents or grandparents such as waiting for marriage to have sex. We can tend to spend a lot of time together, [...]

By |2017-10-27T21:44:22-07:00August 1st, 2013|Relationships|Comments Off on Open vs. Closed Relationship Styles

4 Negative Patterns Predict Divorce

Dr. Gottman is a relationship expert and has been studying marriage and divorce for many many years. "Dr. Gottman believes that it’s much more important to understand why certain actions increase divorce risk rather than to predict it. What are the negative behavior patterns that can predict divorce? Dr. Gottman has named the most corrosive [...]

By |2017-10-27T21:44:49-07:00July 18th, 2013|Relationships|Comments Off on 4 Negative Patterns Predict Divorce

Counselling Can Help in Many Ways

With the help of counselling, becoming more at peace with yourself and your life is possible. You deserve to be happy and healthy. With the help and support people receive through counselling, you CAN solve your problems. You can: feel more relaxed and at peace with yourself have more control over your addictions increase your [...]

By |2017-10-27T21:45:32-07:00May 5th, 2013|About Counselling|Comments Off on Counselling Can Help in Many Ways

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