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My superpower is helping couples learn to see & understand each other even in difficult conversations .... so they can spend their precious time laughing & enjoying life together.
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This is where I share tools for your marriage and ways to apply them so that you can have the fun, connected, & supportive marriage you long for.
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Are you tired of defensive conversations with your spouse?? These are the kinds of conversations where you can’t stop butting heads or conversations where one of you shuts down and refuses to keep talking. These conversations can prevent us from the connection we long to have with our spouse. Sometimes it feels like these defensive […]
Do you feel like you are failing at balancing marriage and career? I’ve been there! It is a struggle I hear about often from couples, but it is also a struggle I’ve personally experienced. I told myself I wanted to balance home & work, but I was working 70-80 hours a week 😱 and my […]
Talking to my husband often felt like talking to a brick wall. In a desire to connect through conversation, I would ask Jeff questions and all I would get in return were one word answers. It would leave me wanting to scream (and sometimes, I did! 🫣). Can you relate? Conversations and sex in your […]
When only one spouse shows desire to work on the marriage, it can leave that spouse feeling stuck, unhappy, and even hopeless. I’ve been there! Let’s see how we can move towards improving your marriage without your spouse! It was exhausting feeling like I was the one taking on all of the work to improve […]
Tuning out what he would say, rolling my eyes, Interrupting what he was saying, finishing his sentences, correcting him, pointing out where he was wrong, mocking him, deep signs when he said things, minimizing him with my tone of voice, sarcasm towards what he said, fixing what he would do, look of disgust towards them. […]
I was a complaining spouse in our marriage and I had no idea! I’m not proud to admit it, but It wasn’t until I learned what a complaint actually was that I realized, I was in fact complaining about everything. And it almost destroyed our marriage. I’m here to help you recognize and stop complaining […]
Did you create any New Year’s resolutions this year? If so, how are they going? Researchers say only 19% of New Years resolutions are kept for longer than a month. We may be well into the third month of the year, and your resolutions may be a part of the 81% that have already been […]
Marriage counseling, or therapy, is different from marriage coaching.
