Relationships

Consciousness/Thriving
Making Peace with Death & Dying
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Three-Legged Race: What a Childhood Game Teaches Us About Love

Not Just a Childhood Game Most of us have run a three-legged race at least once in our lives. You stand hip to hip with a partner. Someone ties your adjacent legs together with a length of rope. A starting pistol fires, and suddenly you discover…
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Keeping The Doors Of Love Open In Your Relationship

Keeping the Doors of Love Open Does your relationship feel like a place where you can fully be yourself? Or do you find yourself editing who you are, choosing your words carefully, softening your reactions, bracing for what might come next?…
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How to Stop Turning Your Partner Into the Enemy

When Love Meets Difference Most of us have been trained to see life through a very narrow lens. We live in a culture whose values, social norms, institutions, and systems have largely been shaped by a level of human consciousness that is binary…
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Why Do We Keep Having the Same Fight?

Photo by Jakob Owens on Unsplash The argument isn't really about what you think it's about. If you've been in a long-term relationship, you know the feeling. A familiar tension rises, words are exchanged, and somewhere in the middle of it,…

Why Being the Responsible One Can Leave You Feeling Empty

You are the one who remembers.Who follows through.Who handles things when they fall apart. Others rely on you. Things work because you are there. And yet, at times, you feel inexplicably tired or flat. Not burned out exactly. Just quietly…

Different Is Not Wrong: The Missing Skill in Most Relationships

At the heart of every relationship is a simple and often challenging truth: the other person is not you. They do not think like you, perceive the world like you, or experience life through your nervous system. They are living inside an entirely…
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How to Handle Family Dynamics Around a Dying Loved One

Families can be complicated, to say the least. When they are beautifully loving and caring, it's one of God's most delightful gifts. But often, when the well-being of a critically-ill loved one is involved, tensions can flare. We don't all love…

Do You Know the 6 People in Your Marriage?

Have you ever noticed that you and your partner keep having essentially the same fight over and over again? No matter what the topic, whenever you get into an argument, does it always seems to  turn out the same way? That’s usually because…
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Celebrating Oneness in Diversity

Do you and your partner frequently battle over who is "right" and who is "wrong?" If so, battles will be won, but a war will rage on. Right/wrong thinking makes a relationship an ongoing power struggle. It is the territory of two ego personalities…
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When Loved Ones Aren’t Very Loving

Do you dread gathering with your family and friends for holidays, weddings, funerals and other events? Or have you been blessed with a truly loving and nurturing family? Dysfunctional childhood and family dynamics have a way resurfacing and…

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