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Protecting Your Relationship From Verbal Violence
Pineapple! How to protect your relationship from verbal violence with ‘Time Out.’ How often do you let rip, hurl your righteous indignation at your partner, yell and spit, and carry on, & feel momentarily, cheaply gratified, only to be left with a hang over of self reproach, corroded self [...]
Spring Time Tidy-Up: You and Your Relationship
Spring has long been a literal and metaphoric season for love. The natural rhythms of our planet are designed to emerge from winter hibernations into new growth and life across the plant and animal worlds. It’s certainly a great time for couples, whatever stage of your relationship, to reflect [...]
The Intimacy of Our Parts: Discovering a Whole Self
I have been contemplating what it is to be human and how we show up in the world wearing different “masks” (parts), depending on the situation and how the past has impacted us either directly or indirectly. Through my own personal journey, trainings and working with clients I know [...]
Christmas Time: Friend or Foe?
Wow, what a year! Like many of us, I'm shuffling towards a good rest and a hopeful pause. With the new year just 4 weeks away, I've been reflecting with a sharper quality on just how massive 2020 has been. In doing so, I'm recognising my reaction to this [...]
Therapy Support: Surviving the Corona Virus with Thrive & Sean Tonnet
Important information for you and your family in regards to therapeutic support and the Corona Virus
Conflict in the age of COVID
I have been working with interpersonal conflict for 25 years as a couple therapist and for the last 15 as a mediator. I have become an expert in analysing conflict and facilitating its resolution. I would like to share with you a free online Emergency First Aid Guide to [...]
Love and the Corona Virus: Tips For Your Relationship
It’s unusual times, there is no doubt about that. Many couples and families are ‘isolating’ as a result of the imposed strategies of COVID-19. This can be nectar and ‘turn up the volume’ on closeness, connection and care, as couples and families lean into each other for comfort and [...]
Valentine’s Day: To Do or Not Do?
Ahhh Valentine’s day! Here I am typing towards the end of another one and I’m left with an old familiar feeling of – to do or not to do? I have to admit, I’m generally not a big fan. Every year the date roll’s around and every year I [...]
Conscious Self Care: A Pathway to Better Love
A Tick-List Guide to Stress It’s been a while since I’ve written. That’s a reflection, mostly, around how busy my life has been. A pretty familiar story I would suggest for many of us. Kids, partner, work, mess, backyard, bins…life… the usual suspects. As I approach having some time [...]
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