Relationship Counseling Retreat
Where did you get your relationship training?
This is the question I ask couples. It’s a pretty good question If you truly take time to think about it. Most people receive their relationship training from parents, the media, or life experiences.
- Upbringing
- The Media
- Life Experiences
Consider your parents. People often say that a person ends up seeking a partner that in some way highlights their parental figures. I personally have found that my wife and my mother relate in many ways. Each kind yet strong.
We often seek partners based on social norms or basically what we see in the media. Consider movies like the Notebook. You have this character who literally goes his entire life loving that one person. It’s a level of love that pulls us in. I know that I personally cried when seeing the film. It’s a perfect representation of how the media influences and even educates us in the area of relationship building.
The final way that we gain training in relationship building is in life experiences. This is a bit tricky here because the experiences can be learned or just made up. Some people wing it if you will. They simply just try to make it work and come up with ideas. On the other hand, people can gain training through role models in life or educational literature.
The basic message that I want to get across is that it’s okay for you to experience difficult moments in your relationship. It’s these very moments that provide us with the opportunity to think and to say, “hey you know what, maybe I don’t know everything there is to know here”.
As a relationship counselor, I help couples in my office and through the relationship building course. If you desire to improve your relationship explore the Relationship Building Course HERE
HOW RELATIONSHIP COURSES WORK?
The Relationship Building Course is designed for struggling couples seeking to overcome challenges in the relationship. The course helps couples create a partnership that is strong, healthy and realistic. The course covers topics that help to improve the success of relationships while evaluating common topics that if not addressed create tension and disconnect. Participants should expect to gain the ability to overcome relationship issues that are associated with the risk of divorce early in the marriage.
The course offers hands-on guided exercises, audio lectures, and video support. The goal is to strengthen your relationship. To help you and your partner overcome the very challenges that are hurting the relationship while learning to use strategies that build a healthy partnership.
How To Support Your Partner With Panic Attacks
How can anxiety impact the health of the relationship?
Anxiety is a subject that to some appear to be an individual concern and not seen as a dynamic diagnosis that can impact the relationship health.
Let’s start with a few basic areas to review.
How can anxiety impact the health of the relationship?
How To Implement Punishment Without Being A Bad Parent
Learn How To Be A Strong and Kind Parent
As a parent, it’s important to find a constructive and healthy way to guide your child forward. To help them learn how to navigate mistakes and unwanted behaviors. The topic of discipline is one that often comes up in counseling sessions.
Disciplining your child can be one of the most difficult yet important parts of raising them. I encourage you to reflect on the understanding that it’s natural to feel conflicted about enforcing rules or setting boundaries.
Parents often struggle with disciplining because it can leave them, parent, feeling “like the bad parent”. The good news is that discipline doesn’t have to be about punishment or anger—it can be a tool for teaching, guiding, and fostering healthy development. A helpful read to add to his one can be found here.
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3 Ways To Be A Proactive Parent
1. Dive into your child’s activities. Ideas include:
- Joining their school PTA
- Signing up to be a coach for their team
- Having a date night with them
- Asking them about their day each and every day
- Connect with their teachers or professionals who support them (ie. coaches, trainers, mentors…)
- Follow them on social media. “If they let you lol”
2. Get to know your childs’ behaviors.
Now that you involved in your child’s life. Take time observe their behaviors and gain an understanding of how they are doing in life.
Below are a few questions that can aid in connecting with your child:
- Anything crazy happens today? I really want to hear a great story.
- What was the best part of your day?
- What was the worst part of your day?
- If you could tell me one thing that really made your day awesome, what would it be?
3. Kids listen to role models. Be your child’s role model.
As a kid, I think I was pretty much like the rest of the aspect of having role models. I would look up to professional athletes like Derek Jeter from the Yankees. I think it is important for parents to strive to in some form or fashion be their child’s role model. Doing so will strengthen the connection and aid your child in life.
Below are a few strategies to get you started in becoming your child’s role model:
- Become a coach or supportive resource for them on the field or at home by increasing your knowledge and involvement.
- Create connections with mentors that support your child.
- Connect your child with the mentors.
- Ask as many questions as you can (or at least until your child tells you to stop).
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