“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all […]
Is This Your Love Story? Read Post »
Yoga can transform your body, mind, spirit, and relationships. I first started practicing Iyenga Yoga 20 years ago when I had an overuse injury from performing as a musician. I needed to find a way to help repair and strengthen my shoulder and I had heard great things about the benefits of yoga. This was
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Do you need to make a sincere apology or ask for forgiveness? I was recently interviewed on Melbourne radio station 3AW693 about how Victorian politician Geoff Shaw could make a genuine apology to parliament. This was an interesting interview because not being a Victorian citizen, I wasn’t aware of this political hot topic that was
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When I first started providing couples therapy soon after graduation from my counselling studies, I really had little experience of how to help couples that were coming to see me. It was truly a baptism by fire because as I started to sit with couple after couple in the first year of my new career,
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I wrote an article for the hugely popular blog MindBodyGreen about the things that happy couples do every day that makes their love and relationship grow stronger. Within 24 hours the post had gone viral and was shared over 7000 times and has now surpassed over 25,000 shares! I have had some wonderful feedback on Twitter and
Happy Couples Do These 10 Things Every Day Read Post »
We all know the story. One day, we’ll hopefully meet someone who is just exactly right for us. Our soul mates, our life partners. Our be all and end all, in other words. Such a person will intuitively understand us, and being with them will have a sort of natural ease to it. Romantic, isn’t
The Myth of “The One”: Does Your Soulmate Really Exist? Read Post »
Money issues are one of the most common issues all couples deal with. It has long been understood that financial stress is one of the most common reasons given for divorce and relationship trouble – and Australian couples are no different in this regard. Combine the after-effects of the global financial crisis and the fact that
Money Issues: What to do When Your Partner Earns More Than You Read Post »
Codependency is unhealthy and destructive for relationships. The word “codependency” sounds a lot nicer than it is. Rather than a situation where two people are mutually “dependent” on one another, codependency is a term originally used to describe the network of relationships that form around an individual battling a pathological condition, such as a substance
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Divorce is costing Australia over $14 billion a year The end of a relationship is not something people enjoy thinking about. Nobody enters into a marriage with the expectation of divorce, and yet the fact is that a significant proportion of marriages dissolve eventually. Marriages are complicated. But, as with so many things in life,
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Study shows child free couples report stronger relationships than those with children. The decision to not have children is one that usually elicits pretty strong opinions from people. Culturally, most of us see having kids as an important part of adulthood, yet increasing numbers of people are becoming more vocal about wanting their lives
Childless Couples: Are They Happier for Not Having Kids? Read Post »
