There is a misconception held in many circles, especially, I find, in some new age spiritual circles: when you find the right partner, everything will become smooth and easy.
I work with so many well-meaning, aware people who tend to …
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Nina Handwerk: Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
Personally, I haven’t spent a lot of time and energy on Valentine’s day, instead I’ve written it off as a Hallmark holiday that people concerned with real love need not pay much attention to! But when I glanced at the …
When we think about creating good boundaries, most of us have an idea that “strong” boundaries are fixed boundaries – this idea is woven into the mainstream culture, a sense that who we are is mostly static and so things …
Have you noticed a lot of interesting, complex. evolving relationship dynamics lately? I sure have. For one. I went through the major life transformation of getting married in late August. Talk about shedding an old skin – thirty some years …
As we all know so well, getting intimate with someone involves also getting intimate with their wounds, their fears, insecurities, and triggers. Learning day by day how a new love interest operates and handles life is a learning – and …
If you look back on your previous relationships that didn’t work out, what prevented them from going forward? You may think “incompatibility” or “dishonesty.” And while there are incompatibilities and dishonesties and many other legitimate deal breakers, the preventable thing …
Have you ever met someone who was so one-sided in their perspective that all you could talk to them about was the one thing they were interested in? Someone who was so focused on their work, their art, their perspective …
Once upon a time, I was trying so hard to make a relationship work. It was a long distance thing and there was so much chemistry and connection, yet when we were apart it would fizzle out. Talking on the …
Have you noticed that the farther you walk on the path, the more individuated your preferences, needs, and desires become? A beloved mentor of mine talks about this often, that the more you become who you are, the more unique …
There’s no doubt about it. Breakups are deeply unsettling, evoking feelings of rawness, grief, discomfort, even existential terror. All of us long for a feeling of protection in life. The old relationship energy we were in, even if it was …
When we have a sense of where we want to go in relationship, health, work, etc, these deep inner goals become the long view of our life. They are the important things that we are making steps towards. When we …
I always knew that I wanted to be in love, but I didn’t always know that I was deserving of love & could actually have it.
Let me tell you a story, about myself. Before I was with John, I …
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