Learning to Accept Your Failures

Learning to Accept Your Failures

After twenty-something years of marriage she had ended it. Now, the house was up for sale and the kids at university. After years of indifference, “flat-lining’, I call it, it had come to this. She had moved out. She was, after all, the one who had been working on...
Are You Passionate About Your Work?

Are You Passionate About Your Work?

I am passionate about Italy. I wanted to have an excuse to visit Italy more often so I designed Couples Retreats to Italy and invited my clients to join me there. I brought one of my passions to life by creating work that I loved.  Here I am in the sunflowers of...
Hope & Humanity During a Pandemic

Hope & Humanity During a Pandemic

“Joy cannot be felt without sorrow, pleasure without pain, love without emptiness. To have once had one’s heart touched is to carry the scar of love.” -Rumi Last December, I was leaving a meeting downtown when I passed a young woman decorating a big...
Emotionally Intelligent Marriages

Emotionally Intelligent Marriages

  Once upon a time when love was new and fresh, we would regularly share our intimate feelings and vulnerabilities with one another. We felt close and connected. But then the pressures and stressors of modern life set in. We are asked to juggle our many roles and...
Who Are You?

Who Are You?

  You have a body. But you are not your body. You have thoughts. But you are not your thoughts. You have emotions. But you are not your emotions. You have a family. But you are not your family. You have friends. But you are not your friends. You  have a job. But...
Why Men Need Therapy

Why Men Need Therapy

I run men’s Intensive therapy weekends because I have met far too many men at my Couples Retreats who are brilliant but who just don’t have the necessary emotional intelligence to succeed at relationships.  Men’s brains are hard wired for action, not...