Yes, we love Summer and some of us might not be too happy to see Summer come to an end. Yep, that’s me. You too? But we don’t have to let the end of Summer put a damper on our mood, fun quotient, outdoor time, and the rest of it. It is up to us to bring what we love about Summer with us as much as we can. And it is important to recognize that there is beauty in all the seasons for varying reasons. I say for now we take in what’s magical about the end of August and savor every morsel. Use end of august magic to inspire change in your relationship.
As things really slow down during this time, this gives us an opportunity to give our body, mind and spirit a respite from the usual pace we keep, which could be phrenetic for some… This space allows us to shift gears so we can better tap into our creativity, our desires, and our dreams…
When we take a break from our routine, rhythm, and the usual, when we slow down and are not run by our list of to-dos, when we allow ourselves to just be, tune in, and attune- ahh… This is when we become more aware of all the blessings, the beauty, the love, the possibilities… Believe it or not, in relaxing we expand, evolve…
~ Did you ever notice that when you are running around, are multi-tasking, have a crammed agenda and packed schedule, that this is when your partner gets on your nerves the most?
~ Did you ever notice that when your children are taken cared of, your phone is nowhere to be found, and you have nowhere to be, that that is when you enjoy your partner the most?
~ And did you ever notice that when you really slow down, bask in nature, and just chill that that is when all the solutions, great ideas, and inspiration strikes? Not to mention the health and the well-being…?
Mm, right? What does that tell us?
The End of August Magic…
When we realize that we have a different experience that gives us joy, inspiration, connection, love, and happiness, let’s pay attention to what’s different about that experience… In this case the call to disconnect and slow down, and quiet-down might I add, is like a blaring siren. We’d be remiss to not take notice…
I love the end of August, exactly for this reason. It gives us a chance to:
Disconnect from the hustle and bustle, the noise, the devices- from being plugged in
Relax, rest and recharge
Reconnect with our desires and dreams
Get inspired for what’s next
Reset for the new chapter
This is a great opportunity to synchronize with your partner about your life and your relationship.
When you disconnect and slowdown, you give your relationship the opportunity to thrive. For this is when you can better mind your energy, how you show up, how you nurture, how you respond, how you play, how you invite your partner to create the relationship and life your desire…
During this last two weeks of August, you get to feel each other more, play differently, dream your dreams, and refocus on one another and what you’d like to create.
Whether you are away, off, or just cruising for the next two weeks, you might consider setting time aside to bask in nature and each other’s company:
~ Show up with chill energy, curiosity, and interest
~ Show up with playfulness and openness
~ Show up with the intention to connect more deeply and expand your love
Before you know it, you’ll be inspired for What’s Next in your relationship and your life and become aligned in creating it…
PSS: Do you need support taking yourself, your relationship, and your life to the next level- actually living a healthy, happy, harmonious and overall abundant life?
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Fortunately, there is a way to turn our relationship around even if it feels like it’s over and nothing seems to work to change things… I know because I’ve done this in my own relationship and because my work has helped countless couples do the same.
This has to do with investing in our own growth and evolution. It has to do with being openminded, understanding and compassionate. It has to do with being all in and doing what it takes to create what we want.
It is not about staying in our relationship at our own expense, sucking it up and having an ok relationship and mediocre life.
It’s about gently and loving investing in our relationship every day. It’s about showing up. It’s about creating a win-win-win.
It’s not about being right and proving or making our partner wrong… Nobody wins when we do that…
This is the kind of mindset that helps us get unstuck, stay the course, and create awesomeness…
This mindset is expanded in the first Element of our Successful Relationship Strategy™. Where the partners align in being Allies and not adversaries…
The Strategy has 5 Elements that when attended to help get partners- get unstuck in their relationship, improve your communication, change your patterns and relationship dynamics, increase your connection, intimacy and fun, and create a strong partnership and amazing life:
Element1 – Context & Mindset: Break the impasse Element2 – Communication & Alignment: Get on the same page Element3 – Clarity & Dynamics: Change patterns Element4 – Connection & Intimacy: Rekindle love Element5 – Collaboration & Partnership: Support each other
In today’s recording, I share more about Element 1 and embracing a Relationship Enrichment Mindset… In a nutshell, I cover:
A new mindset
Self-empowerment
Enrichment Lifestyle
Hope this information serves you and helps you get on the path to your Successful Relationship.
PSS: Do you need support taking yourself, your relationship, and your life to the next level- actually living a healthy, happy, harmonious and overall abundant life?
Copyright (c) 2023 Emma K. Viglucci. All rights reserved.
Want to Use this Article in Your Own Website or Publication? Be our guest! Here is how, you MUST include: Emma K. Viglucci, LMFT is the Founder and Director of Metropolitan Marriage & Family Therapy, PLLC, a private practice that specializes in working with couples, she is the creator of the MetroRelationship™ philosophy and the Successful Couple Strategy™ that assist couples succeed at their relationship and their life. Stay Connected™ with Emma and receive weekly connection notes in your inbox with Personal Development and Relationship Enrichment insights and strategies, visit: www.metrorelationship.com.
We love summer and all the fun that usually comes with it. But we can make it even better while making our relationship even better. That’s right, we can enhance our lifestyle while enriching our relationship. Yes, you can do all the usual summer activities, time off, and vacations. But you can also create a couple summer fun tradition and end the summer with a bang.
This rich experiences not only create beautiful moments at the time they take place but provide additional opportunities for connection before and after, as well as a host of other benefits that make traditions special… Of course, being intentional about how one shows up and about savoring it makes a big difference for how we experience it, what meaning we give it, and how we remember it.
~Before the actual tradition is to take place there is the forethought, planning and anticipation of it that can be milked in and of themselves… The dreaming, designing and putting it together offer opportunities to connect, learn each other better, and address needs and desires.
~After the experience took place, there are the memories that were created to draw future enjoyment from… Revisiting the moments captured in our minds and digitally for posterity sake, sharing it with others, and recounting the event and experience make this the gift that keeps on giving…
Traditions Are a Great Relationship Building Tool
Traditions are the thread that weave the family / relationship tapestry…
They:
Create identity, unity, and a sense of belonging
Convey, and pass down, values, principles, beliefs, and customs
Provide comfort and connection
Offer meaningful pause and reflection
Help celebrate, honor, and give thanks
Promote fun and good vibes
All these benefits make traditions and important aspect of our lifestyle and family life.
This brings me to using these more specifically to enrich our relationship.
Couple Summer Fun Tradition
Traditions can be used throughout the year in our family life and in our relationship. We usually have them during holidays and other celebrations. But we might not have them so much as part of changing seasons and during other times in our life.
So, for this writing I want to offer to create a couple summer fun tradition as another way to invest in your relationship – to enrich your relationship and to enhance the connection with your partner.
How might you go about building a couple summer fun tradition?
~ Think about as aspect of summer that you love- an activity, a sport, an outing, a type of food, an event, a location, etc…
~ Think about an “event” that can be created around it that can be replicated every summer. For example, I love seafood- so every summer we get all kinds of shellfish and have special meal that we call having our “seafood feast day”. And we add all the trimmings and treats we both enjoy making it as yummy as possible and treating ourselves to that joint enjoyment.
Now it’s your turn! Select something about summer that you’ll turn into a couple summer fun tradition to end the summer with a bang…
PSS: Do you need support taking yourself, your relationship, and your life to the next level- actually living a healthy, happy, harmonious and overall abundant life?
Copyright (c) 2023 Emma K. Viglucci. All rights reserved.
Want to Use this Article in Your Own Website or Publication? Be our guest! Here is how, you MUST include: Emma K. Viglucci, LMFT is the Founder and Director of Metropolitan Marriage & Family Therapy, PLLC, a private practice that specializes in working with couples, she is the creator of the MetroRelationship™ philosophy and the Successful Couple Strategy™ that assist couples succeed at their relationship and their life. Stay Connected™ with Emma and receive weekly connection notes in your inbox with Personal Development and Relationship Enrichment insights and strategies, visit: www.metrorelationship.com.
The way we allow ourselves to experience and view our world, is exactly what we experience and what we see… This has tremendous implications for our relationship…
Our relationship is our PLAYGROUND where we recognize our growth areas, notice what skills we still need, practice what we learn, and try out who we are becoming…
When we take our relationship for granted not only does it wither and die, depriving us of the joy and love that our relationship can bring, but with it goes the built-in mechanism for our evolution…
As it is no longer available for its essential purpose of being our playground, we have to find an alternative way to continue evolving to ensure our best human experience…
I say we focus on nurturing and enriching our relationship for its own sake and our own…
In this video, I show how to expand your consciousness, how to better show up to your relationship, to expand your Love…
Feel amazing and create your best relationship…
I talk about:
💗Aligning with Oneness
💗Opening up to More
💗Allowing Love
Let’s live in Love…
Watch other Monthly Theme videos on our YouTube channel
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Copyright (c) 2023 Emma K. Viglucci. All rights reserved.
Want to Use this Article in Your Own Website or Publication? Be our guest! Here is how, you MUST include: Emma K. Viglucci, LMFT is the Founder and Director of Metropolitan Marriage & Family Therapy, PLLC, a private practice that specializes in working with couples, she is the creator of the MetroRelationship™ philosophy and the Successful Couple Strategy™ that assist couples succeed at their relationship and their life. Stay Connected™ with Emma and receive weekly connection notes in your inbox with Personal Development and Relationship Enrichment insights and strategies, visit: www.metrorelationship.com.
We still live in a pretty hectic and grind focused world… The recent pandemic helped us wake up a bit to the reality that we were not living our best life. That we were living by doing, accumulating, numbing, and yes, wasting away… And, to some extent, we haven’t really course corrected that much… We shouted from the roof tops that we wanted to “go back to normal”… But is that really want we want? I know we are craving a richer and more meaningful existence…
I have made it my business, literally, to show people a better way… The old mindset around this no longer cuts it… The grind mentality, the 10x all your efforts, the focus on external achievement, the default of neglecting ourselves and our loved ones is no longer acceptable. Why would we choose to have this kind of life?
The result of that kind of life is high divorce rates and broken homes, financial struggle, addictions, diseased bodies and minds, fatigue and exhaustion, and a lack of inspiration and zest for life… This is when people are robotic about life and it shows in their eyes, in their speech, in their focus… This is when people don’t have a great answer as to the purpose of life… Their purpose…
Regardless of where you stand on the above, I bet you still do some grinding… It’s ok, we still live in this kind of world…
But I want to offer a simple reprieve to that today, and that is to open our eyes to Joy… If you are rolling your eyes, bear with me… You see, we tend to focus on all the doing and getting things done, that we don’t stop to smell the roses. I know this might sound cliché at this point, but it still applies…
What if we created a life where we focus on our life first and then on work? I know, it sounds crazy… And don’t get me wrong- I love my work and working… I could be as much on this boat as the next person… Because my work is such a part of me, and my purpose and my mission, it is even harder to detach from it and chill… It is so ingrained in my being that it becomes difficult to distinguish work from life… But still, I’m taking on this challenge as I know there is even more… I’m intentionally shifting this focus and basking on what’s on the other side…
What does it mean to focus on our life first and then on work? What does it mean to stop and smell the roses? What does it mean open our eyes to joy?
Open Your Eyes to Joy
This would look different for each of us, as we all have different habits, needs, preferences, bodies, histories, things that delight us, and so on and so forth. But it could include some of these or some version of these:
Creating a rich self-care morning routine
Embracing a mindfulness practice
Experimenting with different ways of having movement in our day
Expending times outdoors in the sun and in nature
Having fresh flowers in our office and home
Having live plants in our office and home
Eating delicious nutritious meals
Feeding our mind and soul
Honoring our feelings and addressing our needs
Becoming more who we are
Pursuing interests and hobbies
Pursuing a higher calling
Creating quality time with our loved ones
Having great sleep hygiene (hooked up bedtime routine)
You see, it doesn’t have to be that difficult or such a strange concept… When we prioritize these and work our work around them, that’s when the seas part…
Right now, we do it the other way around, we do work and fill in the rest if we can… This is a terrible way to go about life…
I encourage you to prioritize your life first, sprinkle the little things that give you joy into your routine, then get to work.
What I experience when I do this, is that I’m much more creative and productive. My life feels amazing and works much better. I can truly say I’m living my best life…
PSS: Do you need support taking yourself, your relationship, and your life to the next level- actually living a healthy, happy, harmonious and overall abundant life?
Copyright (c) 2023 Emma K. Viglucci. All rights reserved.
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