50 Ways to Leave Your Lover

December 12, 2011
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The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I’d like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover – Paul Simon What’s the message we’re giving here? [...]

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Are Hormones Making you Fight?

November 29, 2011
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Most of us know that hormones play a big role in how we feel, but we don’t know how or why. We know that men have testosterone and we know about women having their monthly moods… but there is obviously much more to it than that. We want to share a little about how our [...]

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Bert Hoff on The Shadow

November 25, 2011
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In the article Bert Hoff on MenWeb and Fathers we shared Bert’s process around reconnecting to a father we possibly never had or didn’t want. Later in the same talk Bert gave a great summary of a psychological truth that’s been both well and badly described – that being the shadow. So here’s Bert on [...]

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Bert Hoff on MenWeb and Fathers

November 25, 2011
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Here’s a fantastic resource we’ve just discovered, primarily for and about men, but likely of interest to women as well: MenWeb. It’s a sprawling and quirky repository of writings and speakings from over the years, by such original thinkers in the Men’s movement as Robert Bly, Robert A. Johnson, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, Clarissa Pinkola [...]

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Gorilla Consciousness

November 22, 2011
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We recently posted an article on the trio of Attention, Appreciation and Affection from the recent Art of Love 2011 online series. And here’s another snippet from the series that also caught our eyes, from an interview with Gay and Kathleen Hendricks on a common issue for couples: how to break potentially endless cycles of [...]

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Deepak Chopra’s Three “A”s

November 6, 2011
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We’ve started listening to the online series Art of Love 2011 and highly recommend our email readers follow along while it’s still happening. A segment that really caught our attention was in the Kick-off Webinar, where the presenters speak with Deepak Chopra on his three important “A”s of relationships. We share these here as they’re [...]

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Warring Couples

October 2, 2011
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We recently posted The Golden Rules of Relationships which highlighted the importance of feeling our feelings. Another way to say this is “Stop the violence within ourselves”. What violence? That caused by the self-imposed requirement, based on our experience in the world, to push down how we really feel, how we would naturally react. Soldier’s [...]

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From Illness to Stillness

October 2, 2011
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We’re excited to hear about a new book From Illness to Stillness due out soon, by Michael Harrington. From the Introduction Uncovering your innermost being releases a wondrous diamond. Once it begins to emerge from the layers of conditioning, a realization dawns: you are ageless and timeless. When every free instant goes into this quest, [...]

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The Golden Rules of Relationships

September 25, 2011
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Let’s talk about the Golden Rules of Relationships. These are the “make or break” rules for increasing intimacy. We either embrace them, or the relationship stagnates (or worse). So here they are. Feel Your Feelings Feel your feelings is about checking in with ourselves, finding out what is really going on inside emotionally. This might [...]

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Talking is Dangerous

September 2, 2011
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Well, it can be! The theme of this post comes from After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship , a book which, among other things, investigates how conflict can be transformed to improve relationships. Daniel Wile starts with some basic, important rules about talking in couple relationships, which we’ve summarised below. Rules for [...]

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