I have the privilege to share something with you this week from one of my fabulous international Imago colleagues Nedra Fetterman. This very touching story captures the ongoing and powerful legacy of forgiveness and captures intimately the graciousness and care that centres at the heart of true connection. Enjoy P.S. you may need to click […]
Category Archives: Relationships
Appreciation, Baby Brain, child brain, Communication, Imago Relationship Therapy, Relationships, Uncategorized, Whole Brain Communication
Getting your man* to talk Part 2 – the secret permission
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Mar
Mar
In our last post I talked about many woman prefer an Empathy first response where as men respond far better to a Validation response, “You make sense to me.” However the first block that many women face is getting their partner to participate in a discussion at all. There is a secret permission that many […]
Baby Brain, Brain Training, child brain, Communication, empathy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Relationships, Triune brain model, Whole Brain Communication
The surprising relationship insights in Justin Timberlake’s mirrors song-part 2 working with complementarity
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Feb
Feb
Of all the places I expect to find great relationships insights I confess Justin Timberlake was not at the top of that list. However his song Mirrors touches on a number of the most interesting and elusive themes in relationships. Last week we looked at the concept of the lost self – this week we […]
Baby Brain, child brain, Communication, empathy, Imago Relationship Therapy, Passion, Relationships, Triune brain model, Whole Brain Communication
The Surprising Relationship Insights in Justin Timberlake’s Mirrors Song – Part 1 – The Lost Self
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Feb
Feb
Of all the places I expect to find great relationships insights I confess Justin Timberlake was not at the top of that list. However his song Mirrors touches on one of the most interesting and elusive themes in relationships which is the concept of the lost self. In short the lost self is the part […]
I’m really excited in this post to introduce you to a FABULOUS author and speaker Esther Perel. Apart from being beautiful, brilliant and funny she also captured and articulated something amazingly well in this TED talk about how to use the child (limbic) brain to keep passion alive in long term relationships. The talk is […]
When it comes to understanding the Child brain Queen got it right. Their hit song I want it all – I want it NOW sums up the governing ethos of the child brain [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pm4fQRl72k] The limbic (child) brain deals with the realm of emotion and physical sensory experience. This part of the brain primarily develops […]
This hilarious video highlights an important truth about empathy that can cause lots of problems in relationships or be a powerful source of connection. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg] Relationship Guru Pat Love author of, How to improve your marriage without talking about it comments on the fact that the brain actually has two empathy networks. The first is […]
This movie was something of a testimony to how difficult it is to make Meg Ryan look bad, it portrays Meg as a woman who nearly destroyed her movie with alcohol and runs some close parallels to the real life struggles Meg experienced in her marriage to Dennis Quaid. The questions is often asked why […]
Rihanna is fabulously talented, beautiful, wealthy and desired. At one level it seems hard to understand why she would choose to be in a relationship with an aggressive and violent man like Chris Brown and then to return to him following repeated domestic violence. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJgQ8aN1-pM] In fact her situation is far more common than we […]
I confess I was dragged to watch this movie and I muttered and grumbled and squirmed but this final scene made it all worth while. The Story of Us tracks Pleiffer and Willis tearing themselves and their marriage apart in a slow, torturous and scarily familiar decline – and finally when things seem hopeless this […]
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