by Nancy | Sep 14, 2020 | Communication Skills, Conflict, Habit Change, Respectful Behaviors
Sounds like the lead for an afternoon talk show, doesn’t it? Well, it could be. Every day, all over America, immature two-year-olds are doing and saying things that break up marriages. What do I mean? Every one of us has a two-year-old living inside. The great...
by Nancy | Sep 10, 2020 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Conflict, Habit Change, Problem Solving, Respectful Behaviors, Soul Mates
Note from Nancy: I am so excited to introduce to you Krystel Doudera, my new associate coach! Krystel and her husband Earle did a massive amount of work on their own marriage with amazing results. Now she is dedicated to bring those same transformative results to...
by Nancy | Jul 11, 2020 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Conflict, Respectful Behaviors, Uncategorized
If you’ve been following me for very long, you know I love to garden. I have a few house plants that have thrived for more than 20 years. My rose bushes are flourishing. My sunflower plants are about twelve feet tall. My yard has been called “an oasis,” or, “a...
by Nancy | Apr 5, 2019 | Appreciation, Communication Skills, Conflict, Encouragement, Problem Solving, Soul Mates
Is your life looking like the blueprints you had in your mind ten or twenty years ago? Is your marriage living up to the dreams you had for it? Or are you suffering with a marriage or relationship that isn’t matching your plans? “When life doesn’t match your...
by Nancy | Jan 13, 2019 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Conflict, Encouragement, Habit Change, Problem Solving
Recently a respected friend suggested I read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck, Ph.D. I ordered it. It came. When I thumbed through it and discovered many pages of small print, I set it aside. “Not now. Maybe later.” Yesterday I opened it to...
by Nancy | Oct 9, 2018 | Communication Skills, Conflict, Problem Solving
This is the one that triggers instant anger, simmering resentfulness, and eventually feelings of hopelessness about the quality of your relationship. On the surface each of you wants the issue resolved YOUR way…the BEST way! Right? When I tell my couples that...
