This story comes from a recent excerpt from The Writer’s Almanac published by Garrison Keillor. It’s an inspiring story because it reveals how a gifted man used his feelings of shame to create something beautiful. We often use the story to encourage the men we work with to show their deeper feelings of shame and […]
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In Struggling with Shame, a Man has as Much Right as a Woman to a Good Cry Now and Then
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Brief Solution Focused Therapy for Couples
Here’s what a Solution Focused Therapist does to make it work: • Helps you discover solution building rather than problem definition language when discussing your conflicts.
Collaborative Divorce that Works
When the romance is over but platonic caring and concern for each others happiness and well being are still very strong, Marriage Couples and Relationship Counseling collaborative divorce coaching can help by reducing conflict and managing emotional reactions that interfere with good decisions that enhance the well being of your family, especially where kids are […]
Why we should watch what we say!
In a fascinating paper referenced below, Wendy Drewery introduces and develops the idea that conversation is a powerful means of performing relational identity – what she describes as “different ways of doing relationship and different ways of performing identity” – and suggests that “narrative therapy offers an approach to everyday as well as therapeutic conversation […]