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 | Mar 24, 2020 | Appreciation, Encouragement, Problem Solving, Respectful Behaviors
Help! I’m going crazy! Face it! We’re all going through a crazy-making time. So how do you move through this time (however long it may turn out to be) without going crazy? Here’s some tips: Limit your news gathering time to 15-30 minutes tops. A steady diet of...
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 | Commitment, Communication Skills, Habit Change, Problem Solving, Respectful Behaviors
There are several categories of a committed relationship. The first one I think of is 1) a marriage. But there are others, like 2) a business partnership, and 3) the relationship of a parent and child. There are several categories of costs: 1) Staying in the...
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...
