Relationship Toolbox

Fizzle to Sizzle

  To provide the best practices for living in loving intimacy with partners, From Fizzle to Sizzle is that kind of eye-opening, spectacular experience that offers YOU offer practical, hands-on tools and strategies for relationship repair and reconnection. Enroll...

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What Were The Odds?

The phrase "What were the odds?" often gets used in conjunction with some disaster or catastrophe.  However, it's a perfect phrase to describe how I feel on this very momentous day in my life. Today is a VERY important anniversary in my life, and there are some...

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Shame In Action (Or Inaction) 

When something happens to us that hurts our feelings, makes us mad, scares us, or - for me, in particular - proves to be very disappointing, shame is usually triggered.  "I'm not enough," "They don't like me," "They don't know what they're missing," "I screwed up, and...

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What Do You REALLY Want?

To continue addressing what I started in last week's Feature Article, "What COULD The Holidays Be Like," let's take a look at one of the biggest things that gets in the way of you really getting a healthy dose of blissful connection with your Partner and with others...

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What COULD The Holidays Mean?

In the last few days before Thanksgiving, I've been working with some couples and families who are heading into "The Holidays" not with joy and anticipation, but feeling the impact of family division and in high conflict, as well as some who have decided to split...

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Being Well By Well Be-ing

As mentioned earlier this issue, Thanksgiving is a time that, ideally, is about all the qualities/feelings you see to the left. Yet, it is often a time where stress levels go up (along with waist lines), dread comes up, and a lot of you just end up going through the...

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Why Me?!

I want you to imagine something. Imagine that you're a solid, upstanding citizen of your Country. You decide to enlist in the Armed Forces, and end up serving for 18 years, faithfully, bravely, and with repeated valor. Then, just before you're due to retire, you get...

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I’ll Take The Fifth, Your Honor!

Sometimes, less is more.  If you apply that maxim to relationships, what kinds of questions or thoughts does that conjure up for you?  Where do you imagine that would be true for you and your partner? Maybe it could apply to how much time you both spend distracting...

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