Stuck in a negative pattern.

Dec 2, 2024

Every couple is different and yet seek to be the same as other couples who at the same time are trying to fit into the group.  This can be a dilemma for many people living together and seeking harmony. I try to work with my clients to enable a gentle shift in the...

Uncertainty

Jul 8, 2024

When uncertainty presents itself, whatever their upbringing or culture, people feel anxious, stressed and uneasy. When two people come together and form a partnership, uncertainty is, in some cases, shared and in others the discombobulation is doubled. Both sides of...

Life stages.

Dec 12, 2023

At the moment in two parts of the world, Ukraine and the Middle East, we are seeing the result of extreme anger generated by fear and the results are horrifying.  For my blog which follows, written before the second  horror erupted, I have tried to look at...

A sense of abandonment and isolation

Dec 5, 2022

John Lennon once said:  ‘Life happens when you are busy making plans.  In this blog, I am not referring to a loved one abandoning their partner through their own choice. That belongs in a later blog.  Rather, I am musing over a sudden unexpected shock followed quite...

Difference…cont’d.

Jul 11, 2022

I have written twice before (August 4th 2011 and May 29th 2018) about differences…the pros and the cons.  Now, however, following the world’s recent upheaval for two years,  I know a little bit more about tolerance and acceptance of difference.. ...

Learning from the Patient

Mar 28, 2022

This title refers to a book by Patrick Casement and was both informative and self-effacing at the same time. We find at Coupleworks that we learn all the time from our clients and never more so than during 2020 and 2021.  Resilience, tenacity, the will to alter...