Posts Tagged ‘connection’
The Art of Compassionate Communication – Part 3: Identifying Needs || By Kevin Culver LPCC
This series of blogs is focused on how we can improve communication in our relationships, both professionally and personally, specifically by using Rosenberg’s framework of nonviolent communication (NVC). In the last blog, we identified the importance of objectively observing our experience and circumstances and then connecting it very specifically to how we feel (previous blog…
Read MoreThe Art of Compassionate Communication – Part 1: Identifying Roadblocks || By Kevin Culver LPCC
As humans, we all have needs, emotions, and feelings, but we often struggle to express them, especially in the context of relationships. Many never learned how to identify our needs or feelings, much less communicate them to others. And when we try, it often ends up in misunderstanding, disappointment, and hurt, amplifying our feelings of…
Read MoreFind Your Zen Around Your Family || By Annabelle Denmark LPCC
A guide to finding your ground during challenging encounters, using Internal Family Systems Family gatherings, particularly with relatives we’re hoping to maintain a relationship with but feel conflicted about, can be fraught with tension. You may want to approach these interactions with neutrality, but it can be hard when past emotions, unresolved issues, or triggering…
Read MoreSeeds of Growth || By Rick Garcia, Certified Sex/Cannabis Coach, LMT
Recently, my partner and I were considering moving to a new neighborhood. There were, of course, things we’d miss about the house we’d called home for the past five years, but the most bittersweet part was leaving behind our peach tree. We planted it three years ago, and this year, for the first time, she…
Read MoreYour Loneliness Makes Sense || By Catherine Dockery, MA, Conscious Aging Facilitator
When we meet someone for the first time, chances are the first question asked is, “Where are you from?” Our deepest human need is to belong. And that includes not just our ‘kin’ but the land we are from. Our city, our region, our landscape, our country. We may not always consciously notice the natural…
Read MoreFortunate Times || By Beth Hinnen, Certified Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher
“May you live in fortunate times.” As I went through Yoga teacher training, I heard lots of different aphorisms and sayings, attributed to this and that culture, or this or that spiritual teaching. With the world on fire this year, what with multiple wars, economic chaos, political strife, assassination attempts, this saying keeps coming back…
Read MoreSpirituality in Daily Life: Reject the box—not the Mystery! || By Rev. Mary Coday Edwards MA
Spirituality—no one institution or religious practice owns its definition. In previous blogs, I have said it seems to imply: 1 – Staying present to your current experience: basically, HOW is your NOW? Your NOW holds valuable information. 2 – A space where we experience Oneness with the Universe, Divine, Higher Consciousness, Gaia, Brahman, Ultimate Reality,…
Read MoreShould We Advance or Evolve in the Bedroom? || By Rick Garcia, Certified Sex/Cannabis Coach, LMT
As a sex coach, I often find amazing metaphors about life in odd places and I find a way to translate them into sexual health. I recently found myself watching a TV show that focused on technology. This show was great and at its core it was a cautionary tale about the dangers of advancing. …
Read MoreTurning Towards || By TJ Dubovich MFTC
As a marriage and family therapist, I hear couples say things such as “I just don’t want to fight anymore” or “We have been fighting more recently and I’m concerned that means deeper issues in our relationship”. While increased, toxic conflict is not a good sign within a connection, conflict, in general, is neither a…
Read MoreThe Myth of Escalator Sex || By TJ Dubovich MFTC
In the realm of sexuality, there is a pervasive myth that suggests desire should always be like an escalator, consistently and predictably moving upwards. This idea implies that if you and your partner are truly compatible, you should effortlessly slide into a state of continuous, unending desire. Not only that but once you both have…
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