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Category Archives: Healthy Relationships
What Clients Say About Our Work
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 […]
How Dialogic Analysis can be used as an eductional tool in Narrative Therapy for Couples
The Younger Family in “Raisin in the Sun” and their struggle for fulfillment and happiness in an oppressive white society.
Synopsis of the Story The Youngers are by any measure an impressive family. A part of the great Black migration from the South, Walter Younger Sr. and his devoted wife Lena settled in a tiny, cramped apartment on the south side of Chicago successfully made a secure life for themselves and their two children, Walter […]
The Hurt Beneath the Punch: How to Show Your Lover What You’re Really Feeling
Every couple fights differently and most of the time what they’re fighting about isn’t the real argument. Some deeper hurt or frustration usually gets triggered by the way they express themselves if something is bothering them.