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Facing Our Fears Builds Strength
The more we withdraw from challenges, the more fearful we become. The problem with avoidance is that the underlying issues don’t get resolved. Fear doesn’t grow unless it’s fed. Whenever we encounter a...
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In Service to Each Other
Linda: Here is a report from an exceedingly happy couple about what they have discovered keeps them in the thriving zone. Mira: I know that Ari loves me, and even when he is away from home traveling...
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Repairing, Sustaining, & Enriching
If you’ve been noticing lately that you and/or your partner are more irritable, short-tempered, impatient, critical, withdrawn, emotional, anxiety-ridden, depressed, or perhaps, ALL of the above, keep...
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The Need for Love
Linda: Love is a universal need that is essential to our well- being and is the most important need of all. Love is not just a warm feeling towards another person. It is the desire to enhance their...
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The Connector and the Freedom Fighter Part 1
Linda: I first learned about the distance and pursuer from family therapist James Framo who describes the pursuer as the one who likes a lot of contact, intimacy, connection, togetherness. The one who...
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The Connector and the Freedom Fighter Part 2
Linda: There is an unconscious collusion of the freedom fighter and the connector to co-create a degree of closeness that is acceptable to them both. Although it seems like each wants one extreme or...
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The Connector and the Freedom Fighter Part 4
Linda: Pricilla and Zack are speaking to a young couple they know who has been struggling and they want to assist them by sharing their growth around a challenging issue from their past. They are proud...
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A Big Do-over
Linda: A do-over is putting a correction in when you realize that you have made a mistake. It’s an opportunity to try or perform something a second time. Consider this couple who had a huge do-over....
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Falling in Love Again and Again
Linda: According to Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster, passionate love is defined as “a wildly emotional state in which tender and sexual feelings, elation and pain, anxiety and relief, altruism and...
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Are You Available and Approachable?
Linda: Once I was on a plane flying to Little Rock, Arkansas. I was seated next to an older woman. I remember her as having kind, intelligent eyes. We struck up a conversation and she seemed delighted...
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