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What's Love Got to Do with My Garden?
  • Jul 16 2024
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What's Love Got to Do with My Garden?

Relationships need the warmth of attention as plants need the sun, and relationships need the negativity, criticism, and toxic behaviours to be removed as the garden needs to be weeded.

What's Love Got to Do with My Garden?

Turning Pain into a Masterpiece
  • Jul 08 2024
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  • 464 recent views

Turning Pain into a Masterpiece

Many modern and historically famous artists have channeled their negative emotions and life struggles into their creative work, producing masterpieces that inspire and resonate with audiences.

Turning Pain into a Masterpiece

Turtles & Tigers Navigating Relationship Dynamics
  • Feb 06 2024
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  • 1273 recent views

Turtles & Tigers Navigating Relationship Dynamics

Within the Imago framework, we identify two archetypes: the Turtle, who withdraws and contains energy, and the Tiger, who expands energy by moving towards their partner.

Turtles & Tigers Navigating Relationship Dynamics

Disconnected in a Connected World
  • Nov 29 2023
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  • 1753 recent views

Disconnected in a Connected World

In the age of technology, our lives are intricately woven with devices that promise constant connection. Yet, ironically, this digital tether often leads to a disconnection within our most intimate relationships.

Disconnected in a Connected World

Unlocking the power of repair
  • Aug 21 2023
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  • 1830 recent views

Unlocking the power of repair

The sign of a healthy relationship is not that you do not fight or have conflict but is about how quickly you repair the rupture.

Unlocking the power of repair

Could your relationship do with a tune-up?
  • Jul 27 2023
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  • 1368 recent views

Could your relationship do with a tune-up?

Tip no. 1: The Relationship needs to be your number one priority.

Could your relationship do with a tune-up?

May 2023 Workshop
  • Jul 20 2023
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May 2023 Workshop

The workshop in May was a small intimate affair. Three couples, my assistant Kaz and myself spent an amazing weekend together in Coolangatta. There is something special about a small group, it seems to create an instant intimacy with each other and with the other attendees.

May 2023 Workshop

May 2022 Workshop
  • Aug 04 2022
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  • 1472 recent views

May 2022 Workshop

On the last weekend in May, five couples gathered with a mixture of trepidation and excitement to experience for themselves a GTLYW workshop.

May 2022 Workshop

Getting The Love You Want
  • May 14 2022
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  • 2419 recent views

Getting The Love You Want

I recall the couple who agreed to give the workshop a go before making the decision to separate or not. Their experience blew me away, their relationship completely turning around and reaching a level I don't believe either of them thought possible.

Getting The Love You Want

Heartbreak - the effect on your immune system
  • Apr 05 2022
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  • 5185 recent views

Heartbreak - the effect on your immune system

From ABC All in the Mind - Why do our hearts hurt so bad?

Heartbreak - the effect on your immune system

Overcoming Negativity Bias
  • Mar 04 2022
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  • 1963 recent views

Overcoming Negativity Bias

In our relationships it means that the twenty positive interactions you may have had that day with your partner can be wiped out by that one irritating thing they have done and that becomes all you can think about it.

Overcoming Negativity Bias

Do you feel like your are walking on Eggshells?
  • Oct 15 2020
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  • 3568 recent views

Do you feel like your are walking on Eggshells?

I hear this phrase frequently in the therapy room and it's something I've personally experienced in my own relationships. Feeling like you are 'walking on eggshells' does not feel good and it is not how we want to feel in our relationships.

Do you feel like your are walking on Eggshells?

Living with uncertainty
  • Apr 28 2020
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  • 3467 recent views

Living with uncertainty

We simply do not like living with uncertainty, our need for control is upset in uncertain times. Dominant parenting and educational models work for the notion of certainty - the need for control.

Living with uncertainty

Dealing with Passive Aggression
  • Mar 09 2020
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  • 5760 recent views

Dealing with Passive Aggression

Passive Aggression - not the sole preserve of working environments either; it can take the shape of the sullen shop assistant, the stomping door slamming teenager or the surly spouse giving you the silent treatment after a row

Dealing with Passive Aggression

Couples Therapy
  • Feb 26 2020
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  • 4247 recent views

Couples Therapy

Expertly shot and edited, the new SBS VICELAND series Couples Therapy makes great artistry of at times tragic circumstances.

Couples Therapy

Once Upon A Time I Was A Very Crazy Person
  • Jan 30 2018
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Once Upon A Time I Was A Very Crazy Person

Once upon a time I was a very crazy person, who wore her heart on her sleeve and was prone to many emotional ups and down. I was also suffering anxiety to the point of frequent panic attacks. I tended to get caught in the spiral of negative thoughts swirling inside my head.

Once Upon A Time I Was A Very Crazy Person

Nana turns 100
  • Jun 12 2017
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  • 5321 recent views

Nana turns 100

My Nana,who has been the subject of many of my blogs throughout the years is turning 100 on 4 of July. My family and I will be flying down to Melbourne for her birthday celebrations, as will many others.

Nana turns 100

January Reflections
  • Jan 10 2016
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January Reflections

So much has happened in the past year that taking a moment to reflect as one year ends and another one begins seems a timely and worthwhile exercise.

January Reflections

Six months into the new life
  • Sep 26 2015
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  • 5011 recent views

Six months into the new life

It has been just over 6 months since I made my big life-changing decision to uproot myself and my daughters and experience living somewhere else.

Six months into the new life

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