Regarding the book Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman, which I have already recommended, one thing that one of my couples that are clients came up with is: under the love language of acts of service this couple made a distinction between an act of service and act of servitude.[…]
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Working through Infidelity Part 1 Infidelity is such a deeply traumatic event for committed couples. I have listened and watched the most painful releases in my practice during these sessions. It is a huge loss of trust in your partner and very difficult to regain. Radix is particularly designed to[…]
Read More »I have recorded one of my favorite poems: The Wisdom of Content.
Read More »As often happens, as I write a poem the it is unknown to me where it will lead me: here my anger turns to the grace of understanding and compassion.
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I am working a very busy Radix practice, so my time away from my work is precious and I only want to do what is refreshing, rewarding and relaxing (the new three R’s! ). We love to hike, watch good movies, sit outside and watch the sunset; we love to[…]
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It is a powerful axiom that what we resist we have the paradoxical response of actually giving the resistance more strength, not less as we may have hoped. The old observation to try to not think about pink elephants and, of course, the elephant appears in our mind’s eye-pink and[…]
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I am putting together a blog post on the different ‘types’ of love. In reading the book The 5 Love Languages, by Gary Chapman he posits that there are two types of love: romantic euphoric ‘falling in love’ which won’t last longer than a few years at the most; and then there[…]
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When couples argue there are a host of different styles. Two that are common and go hand and hand I call the ‘pursuer’ and the ‘processor’. The pursuer feels that in any argument they need to have fast and immediate resolution thereby pursuing their partner pushing for answers. The processor[…]
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I have a metaphor I often tell my clients explaining how therapy works. Holding up my hands in front of myself I demonstrate to my clients two hands fused together. One hand is the Egoic Self which we all have and will probably not remove: it is easily hurt, prideful,[…]
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