This workshop looks at the importance of
relationship habits as the vehicle for creating a template of connection and intimacy.
Although it is common knowledge that changing diet or substance use is extremely difficult, therapists and educators have known for years that making changes to
relationship habits also presents a significant challenge.
Not surprisingly though, once these couples get it figured out, their
newfound relationship habits become second nature to them, and thus, they never talk about them.
In the same way that successful athletes make daily training a normal part of their lives, so successful married couples are attentive each day to
healthy relationship habits.
stage of your relationship, you can avoid much pain and agony, as well as circumvent the formation of
bad relationship habits.
Speed dating can also show you as a single person to recognize as well as discontinuing any
ineffective relationship habit, as well as judging whether what you feel for the other person is lust or love.
ask specialized questions that elicit detailed information about each partner's
problematic relationship habits along with an abundance of examples that can be used to help the clients understand the changes they need to make.
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In our couples therapy and seminars, each partner uses information and exercises from the book, Developing Habits for Relationship Success, to develop
new relationship habits.
Newlywed couples and new parent couples deserve a couples therapy experience that strengthens their sense of teamwork and partnership — counseling that teaches both communication skills for empathy and conflict resolution skills for problem solving, how to
form relationship habits that foster connection and manage stress, and proactively maintain a loving and fulfilling relationship.
Neurobiologists are also beginning to unravel the secrets of
why relationship habits are so hard to change and how the brain can be rewired for greater flexibility.
It's our tendency to slip into one, or more, of the
negative relationship habits that Gottman terms The Four Horsemen of relationship apocalypse.
Together, you can learn to move past negative behaviors, such as blame, criticism, rage, withdrawal, and rejection, and replace them with
healthy relationship habits that encourage support, sensitivity, and connection.
«I'm very much about the inner work of addressing not just childhood trauma but also the way our attachment styles and
relationship habits and patterns impact on our adult relationships — especially our most intimate relationship.»
Since 2008, KMA Therapy has helped thousands of people develop effective communication strategies and healthy
relationship habits.
By Gil Artmoore Some people have
relationship habits that work to hamper their relationships and cause misery.
Some people have
relationship habits that work to hamper their relationships and cause misery.
Your Habits Will Make or Break
Your Relationship The habits surrounding your marriage are what has got you to where you are now.
While there are many things that can lead to an unhealthy
relationship habit (e.g. the impact of stress, repeating problematic relationship patterns from your past), it's important to develop a conscious plan to overcome these habits.
Reflecting on the previous year can help couples identify
the relationship habits or patterns that they wish to break out of.