by Margie | Mar 17, 2014 | Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Self
So often in my work with couples, I see a pattern that one or both of the partners of a couple fail to express their needs, issues, or problems. It sometimes feels easier to ignore our concerns and push them away. Maybe we are afraid of hurting our partner’s feelings...
by Margie | Mar 2, 2014 | Self
“Learning To Be With Our Experience: Dan Siegel writes in The Mindfulness Solution: When we practice mindfulness meditation, we practice being with whatever is occurring at the moment without doing anything to try to change or escape it. We pay attention to how things...
by Margie | Feb 10, 2014 | Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Self
To Lie or Not to Lie – How to Develop Honesty in Relationships Honesty in marriage and relationships takes guts and courage. It is a process, not a one-time revelation. You build relationship “muscle” by telling and hearing smaller truths, so you and your partner can...
by Margie | Nov 17, 2013 | Self
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns…We may want to love other people without holding back, to feel authentic, to breathe in the beauty around us, to dance and sing. Yet...
by Margie | Nov 4, 2013 | Marriage, Parenting, Relationships, Self, Tip
I just finished listening to a great webinar called “How to Help People Connect to Loving Awareness: Expanding Our Capacity to Give and Receive Unconditional Love.”, with Ruth Buczynski interviewing Ram Dass. I had heard about Ram Dass, but never had the opportunity...