attachment theory

Heal Within The Stone Hearth of Your Relationship for Fire and Light

You.

Me.

What do we know about supporting long term relationships to thrive, to flourish...

To experience the fullness of being human...

To explore the richness, depth, passion, and connection of being alive?

5 Steps for Coming into Presence and Connection with Your Partner and Loved Ones

5 Steps for Coming into Presence and Connection with Your Partner and Loved Ones

"Wait. Wait. Can you say that again?"

I'm in the kitchen, and my youngest who is eight is next to me saying something about turtles and the beach.

A piece of me is replaying a past conversation with someone else as I pour some tea.

I recognize another piece wants to be in the present and connected to what he's sharing with me.

I honestly believe people are happier without me in their lives.

People are happier without me in their lives.

I'm working with and getting curious about this belief I have that people are happier without me in their lives.

It's a thought pattern I apply to partners, to my children, to friends, to family.

It's painful.

None of Us Wants to Be Abandoned...and how I want us to love more and deeper

A client wrote to me recently and asked,

"Can you help me to want her less...care about her less...and love her less than I do so that I am not putting pressure on her to communicate with me or have to be intimate with me emotionally?

Is that realistic?"

This Is How You Move Toward Embodied Self-Love

Something so powerful and deep happened in a coaching session a few weeks ago.

I've been thinking about it and wanting to share it, thinking it might click a few things into place for you, too.

Because most of us...we want to experience love with a partner, with our person.

The idea of self-love can feel so far-fetched and inaccessible because we first experience love in relationship and attachment to our primary caregivers.