Your Life and Your Family of Origin In my psychotherapy practice, whether its individual, couple or family therapy, I have seen the benefits of developing a clear and coherent understanding of one’s personal and family history - one’s family of origin. One’s family of origin is one’s nuclear ...read more
Intentional Partnership
Being conscious of the relationship we have with ourselves and with others is what I call Intentional Partnership. Intentional in the sense of making a conscious choice that is deliberate and purposeful and partnership entails two distinct people, or parties, coming together intentionally. When we ...read more
Healing our Family Inheritance through the Marital Relationship: The Parent-Child Relationship
Giving and Receiving of Love: Your Childhood Relationship with Your Parents and the Impact on Your Marriage In the last blog post we talked about the multigenerational family process and how this relates to the giving and receiving of love in the marital relationship. How we experienced our ...read more
Healing our Family Inheritance through the Marital Relationship: The Multigenerational Process
Giving and Receiving Love: The Multigenerational Process The giving and receiving of love in the marital relationship is influenced by the multigenerational family process. The multigenerational family process illustrates how families work as a system of relationships and how family patterns ...read more
Healing our Family Inheritance through the Marital Relationship: Family Scripts
The Inheritance of Family Scripts of Receiving and Giving Love Hello Everyone. Over the next several blog posts I will go over some dynamics that have the power to shift your marriage into a platform for growth, profound love and happiness. Marriage offers the opportunity to continue the ...read more
Uncovering the Family Shadow
“To truly be committed to a life of honesty, love and discipline, we must be willing to commit ourselves to reality.” -John Bradshaw As we move toward wholeness, uncovering the family shadow becomes imperative. Uncovering the family shadow integrates your life experiences and is a period of ...read more
My Discovery of Spirituality as a Pathway to Personal Transformation
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find. -Wayne Dyer Spiritual practice is a pathway for personal transformation. I was raised Catholic, but was in search of something more. When I was 14 years old, I found myself desiring a holistic approach to spirituality that ...read more
Hello World!
I am happy to welcome all of you who have come to my website and to this blog. This website, my services and this blog are intended to be helpful to you and your journey through life. Throughout my life I have been drawn to spiritual traditions and practices, personal development and ...read more