What's the Difference between Coaching and Counseling? When new clients call seeking help with counseling, we are often asked ‘Coaching vs. Counseling, what is the difference?'. It is important to clarify the difference between the two and explain how both options are...
How to Succeed in Marriage Counseling When couples start working with me they often ask about my success rate. I usually answer, “When I have a couple with both spouses willing to take 100% responsibility for their part of the relationship, we’ll be 100% successful.”...
Date Better- Date #3 Forts and Flicks Ya’ll, we’ve outdone ourselves on this one. Not only has this date been the MOST fun and laughs we have had in all of our Date Better testing, but it's also 100% free from the everyday average date. If you will only do one of...
Are You Lonely? Have you ever felt lonely in a crowd? When you're amongst family and friends, have you ever felt lonely? Do you ever feel lonely in your closest relationship? Loneliness Loneliness has been called a national healthcare crisis because of the...
How to Date Better- Date #2 Dates for deeper connection, better conversations, and more fun. This month, we've curated yet another fun filled date night to help you avoid the 'What do you want to do tonight?' debacle. Our goal is to help you Date Better by offering...
What is trust? Is it given or is it earned? Is trust something that one loses and never regains? Trust is a vital part of relationships, so vital it could be viewed as its own entity.
Shame identified. Shame is the unseen driver behind many challenges couples experience in their relationship. In my previous blog, Shame Part 1, I mentioned that shame can be difficult to identify. I explained how shame can work in secret when we do not know what it...
How to Date Better! Dates for deeper connection, better conversations, and more fun. I know we are supposed to set aside time each week to date our significant other, but actually doing so is easier said than done. Even when you do have time, a sitter lined up and...
Are you struggling in your marriage? Have you talked and talked but seem to get nowhere? Have you tried marriage counseling and it didn’t work? Or are you silently suffering, feeling so disappointed that this place of “roommate status" is where you find yourselves...
“Real men don’t cry.“ “Stop being such a baby.“ “Toughen up and be a man.“ “You don’t have time for all that touchy-feely stuff.“ Do any of these statements sound familiar to you? If they do, chances are you may have heard them from other men- your dad, your boss,...