METROPOLITAN MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPY, PLLC
Many couples feel like they give more love than they receive, but what if the issue isn’t effort, but communication? The 5 Love Languages offer a powerful framework for expressing love in a way that your partner truly feels it. Learn how to identify your love languages, avoid their common pitfalls, and create a deeper connection and stronger bond.
Call me a hopeless romantic, but I believe there’s more love in the world than we think. Our reality is shaped by our thoughts, beliefs, and focus. Just like in It’s a Beautiful Life, where a father shields his son from trauma, we, too, can shape our experiences. I help couples rekindle their love and create something new – because love isn’t just found, it’s created.
Frequent conflicts or emotional distance can strain any relationship, but the solution lies in intentional connection. By transforming defense mechanisms, fostering emotional safety, and investing in meaningful habits, you can create a relationship that thrives with intimacy, understanding, and joy. Learn how to embrace a Relationship Enrichment Lifestyle and build a strong partnership you both love.
As we settle into the New Year, many of us are exploring and integrating our new habits, tactics, practices, and routines… While the cold weather may not be my favorite, I love this season for one reason: It’s the perfect opportunity for a fresh start. And what’s more exciting than the chance to reset, realign, and step boldly onto a Grand New Path?
A brand spanking new year, and the start of a New Quarter Century, #Q2Y2K. Isn’t that something? Big milestone years give me the tingles. I find them super exciting as markers and opportunities for grand gestures, grand plans or intentions, and absolutely for Grand New Beginnings. This is an opportunity to reset ourselves, our relationship, and our life. To set ourselves on a new path, for a new future. We can choose what we want this next segment of time to be like in our Journey… We can design our ideal future. Embracing this perspective is super empowering for having the Experience we desire… Here is to New Year Goals to uplevel our relationship and our life.
As we get deeper into the Holiday Season, we might find ourselves going through the motions, pushing ahead and just checking things off our list. But are we truly embracing the merriment, the joy, the blessings, and a deeper purpose for the holidays that make them more meaningful and magical?
I know that at the beginning of November many like to start Gratitude Challenges to honor the Thanksgiving Holiday and to get the Holiday Season off to a wonderful start. This year though we had a tentative start to the month with the elections, strange weather patterns, and natural disasters, but we are still called to be grateful… Our gratitude might sound trite at times if it is superficial, prescribed, and automatic if it doesn’t have depth and feeling. If it is forced with a must or should feel to it. Genuine gratitude comes from a deeper place. Not from just all the things we love and appreciate. But from place of meaning, impact, and reverence…
Whether we celebrate Halloween or not, the holiday can still bring us fun and excitement… We don’t have to necessarily be a part of it to pick up inspiration… We can just soak up the vibes for an infusion of aliveness. Which at times can be much needed in our relationship… It is common for partners to experience a rut in their relationship. Where they feel stuck, stagnant, bored, bland, distant, or disconnected. Partners can tap into the excitement of Halloween to liven up their relationship.
