Today I want to speak to the idea that being a loving person in a primary relationship as well as any type of relationship requires a sense of humility and a recognition of the importance of being honorable. All too often we humans create a sense of who is ‘right’ and who is ‘wrong’ instead …
Category: Relationships
Blog Posts on Relationship topics
Sep 09 2021
Feelings of Love: There are so Many – Vol. 530, Sept. 9, 2021
There are many ways for one to ‘feel’ love that have very little to do with a primary relationship. It has more to do with the gut response that one may feel not necessarily on any one particular person, but on something that brings these feelings into one’s consciousness. Because we can gain these loving …
Sep 02 2021
What Happens When People Stay in Unhappy Marriages? Vol. 529, Sept. 2, 2021
Today we are going to learn the truth about what happens when people stay in unhappy marriages. Dana Adam Shapiro has done research on this question for his book “You Can Be Right (or You Can Be Married.’ He has found that only 17% of married people are happy, which means that 83% of married …
Aug 12 2021
What is Therapy Like for Teens? – Vol. 526, August 12, 2021
This is an interesting question for sure. I am not a licensed therapist, rather a hypnotist, and what I have found in my work is that it is much better if I can get the teen to have their parent in the session rather than not. There is a reason for this that many don’t …
Jun 10 2021
Dealing With Toxic Parents – Vol. 517, June 10, 2021
Dealing With Toxic Parents – June 10, 2021 I have been working with a client who has been going through a very difficult time because his mother never can speak to him in a civil manner. She finds many different ways to blame him for things that he has never done, talks to him as …
Jun 03 2021
Why Do People Give the Silent Treatment? – Vol. 516, June 3, 2021
Why Do People Give the Silent Treatment? – Vol. 516, June 3, 2021 There are really three reasons for someone to give another the silent treatment so it depends on the circumstances. The first is if the person giving the silent treatment is enacting a ‘no contact’ procedure where the person that is being silenced …
Apr 29 2021
Perceptions: Time To Better Understand Yours – April 29, 2021
Today I want to speak to the idea of ‘perception.’ To make my point I am going to share what I learned from my father versus what my sisters told me they learned from him. He is long gone, having died at the age of 61 from a stroke on March 25, 1985. Do the …