We are wrapping up our series on Relational Heroism. I hope you have found it compelling. Where do you show up heroically in your relationship? Where are the growth edges…
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10) Develop and utilize “Dead-Stop Contracts”: In The New Rules of Marriage, Terry Real describes a powerful strategy for interrupting marital conflicts. He writes, “If I feel, rightly or wrongly, that you are…
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Read on for the next 3 acts of Relational Heroism: 7) Implicit in letting go of the “need to be right” is the necessity of accepting my partner’s distortions. Many arguments…
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On to the next points in our series on Rational Heroism 4) Don’t take personally what my partner says when they are in their “Wounded Self”: The author David Celani,…
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Welcome to post #2 in our series on Relational Heroism. Please keep reading for insights into the destruction wrought by anger and rage as well as the benefits of timing oneself out.…
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A skillful and gifted colleague, Phil Chanin, Ed.D., ABPP, CGP, recently shared an essay which includes a compilation of strategies and practices that he frequently utilizes in his work with…
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