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Is there any truth to dating / marrying partners like our parents?
Is there any truth to dating / marrying partners like our parents? Because of what happens growing up, we have unmet needs, lost parts, protective behaviors – I call it our “baggage”. Going through our childhood into our adult life, we bring all those aspects of ourselves into our relationships. If there was a certain…
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Confidential Weekend Couples Workshops Long Island
100% CONFIDENTIAL WEEKEND COUPLES WORKSHOPS: Everything that goes on in our workshops are confidential. There are no comparisons between couples whatsoever. Confidential Weekend Couples Workshops Long Island Become the most connected couple you know with our Long Island weekend workshops to help you & your partner enhance closeness, communicate better, and experience a deeply fulfilling…
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Common Communication Issues in Relationships
The big challenge for couples is to try to understand that… You’re not symbiotic. You came into this relationship as two individuals. Both of your opinions/perspectives can exist in the same space (and believe it or not, both are right). The Art of Communication Different opinions are not right or wrong – it’s just allowing…
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Getting The Love You Want: Weekend Couples Workshop
Become the most connected couple you know with this Long Island weekend workshop to help you & your partner enhance closeness, communicate better, and experience a deeply fulfilling & lasting relationship. SAT & SUN, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2019, 9:30-7:00 PM 575 Broadhollow Road Melville, NY 11747 (MAKE IT A GETAWAY: located across the street…
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Workshops for Retired Couples
They came together, had children, then lived their lives around their children and their jobs. And now, there are different dynamics. Their children are on their way out of the nest or having children of their own. Once retired, couples generally start looking to carve a new path. The Getting The Love You Want workshops…
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Long Island Couples Workshop May 4 & 5, 2019
GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT – Couples Workshop May 4 & 5 A Couple’s Workshop for Communication & Intimacy For all committed couples – married or unmarried. Learn what all relationships need to be healthy, happy and successful. Learn to communicate effectively Understand what drives conflict Feel deeply heard & find forgiveness Rebuild broken trust…
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Stress Counseling with LCSW Robin Newman
We all know (in our rational / prefrontal brain) that stress isn’t a good thing in anxiety, but yet we still do it, right? We still feel it.. So it’s going into that second place and saying, okay, I know it’s not good, so maybe I need to try looking at it from this perspective…
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Long Island Couples Workshop May 4 & 5, 2019
Become the most connected couple you know with this revolutionary workshop to help you and your partner recapture joy, enhance closeness, communicate effectively, and experience a deeply fulfilling relationship. Getting The Love You Want: A Guide For Couples The New York Times bestselling guide to transforming an intimate relationship into a lasting source of love…
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Irrational Beliefs Theory
The Becks Model – Underlying Schema Early experiences, subconscious thoughts, unconscious thoughts, things again, that family and culture have taught us that we carry with us into a cognitive distortion. So he agreed with Ellis, and believed in his irrational beliefs theory. Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior…
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BEHAVIORAL THERAPY: It’s a theory, but it’s a therapy.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, commonly known as B.F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher who touched upon behavioral therapy. So what does Skinner say? Behaviors are learned. Behavioral therapy believes that behavior can be unlearned. Change is really hard. So this therapy is a learning process. What it’s focusing on is…
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