Posts Tagged ‘finding happiness’
The Run Away Horse Story: You never know what will come out of any situation
There once was a farmer whose horse ran away. When the farmer’s neighbor found out about the runaway mare he told the farmer it was too bad that his horse ran away. The farmer replied to his neighbor, “You never know”. The next day the farmer’s horse returned followed by a beautiful stallion. The…
Read MoreCould Seeking Love and Wanting Our Needs Met Actually Hurt Your Chances of Finding It: How our needs effect our relationship
“Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” –Rumi We all want love. We all want to feel peace and joy. Trouble is we often don’t understand how to go about experiencing these elements. Until we understand what…
Read MoreI Need Your Love – Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead
The mind is a powerful tool that can help us along our way or hold us back with negative thinking. When our mind becomes flooded with destructive thoughts our life is in turn interpreted in a manner. When we believe that we are unworthy of love, respect or kindness we begin to look for things…
Read MoreSimple Marriage Advice
There are a few pieces of advice I find very helpful when working with couples in my office. People are often not as bad off as they think. The key is to get them to really listen to what is under the complaining. Getting them to calm down so they can hear is…
Read MoreTragedy, How Can It Help a Marriage
Great tragedy, like an affair, penetrates directly to our most guarded areas, tearing away our protective ideals and comfortable apathy and leaving us vulnerable to the elements of our environment. We are left to grieve the loss of what could have been. “We could have had a marriage free of adultery”. Many…
Read MoreTips No One Tells You That Will Change Your Thinking and Save Your Marriage
Listen to understand, not to dispute- We’ve all been there, caught in the moment where we feel we must defend our point of view, stand up for what is “right” in our own eyes, or defend our opinions. We become so protective of our stance that we neglect to hear our partner’s thoughts…
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