Free Online Event Tomorrow! Learn How to Support Family Members with Addiction
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
2y ago
Are you doing everything you can to help a loved one find freedom from addiction, yet something is still missing? Even though you’re: – Setting ‘boundaries’ – Doing your best to not ‘enable’  – Trying to ‘let go’ – Looking after yourself & doing all the ‘self-care’ stuff Yet, you’re no further ahead. And it’s taking its toll on your mental, emotional and physical well-being. If that’s you, then I invite you to attend the Family Recovery Summit! This Summit is for those who love an addicted person and want to know how to properly help them, without letting addiction destroy their ..read more
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Free next week! Family Recovery Summit
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
2y ago
Are you doing everything you can to help a loved one find freedom from addiction, yet something is still missing? Even though you’re: – Setting ‘boundaries’ – Doing your best to not ‘enable’  – Trying to ‘let go’ – Looking after yourself & doing all the ‘self-care’ stuff Yet, you’re no further ahead. And it’s taking its toll on your mental, emotional and physical well-being. If that’s you, then I invite you to attend the Family Recovery Summit! This Summit is for those who love an addicted person and want to know how to properly help them, without letting addiction destroy their ..read more
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Ready to Have All of Your Questions About Sex Answered – WITHOUT Any of the Awkwardness?! 
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
2y ago
The 2022 Sex Seminar features 23 professional perspectives on intimacy topics and my friend Dr. Sandy Jensen (LMFT), and I joined forces to facilitate one of the courses Use My Custom Link Below to Receive $15 Off My Readers discount ..read more
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As the Weather Cools Down, Try on the Power of Warmth
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
3y ago
In our social interactions, we are constantly assessing each other for safety, whether we realize it or not. We make instantaneous decisions about whether people are approachable largely based on their facial expressions and vocal tones. Genuine warmth is inviting and signals acceptance, so it’s much easier to move toward than disappointment and criticism. It’s no secret that we respond to positive cues, and most people are familiar with John Gottman’s recommended 5:1 ratio for how many positive interactions it takes to counter the effects of one perceived negative interaction….and yet, my ob ..read more
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One Powerful Thing That is Surprisingly but Commonly Difficult for Many Couples
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
3y ago
Check out my new couple’s workbook by clicking here It’s not uncommon for me to request of a partner that he or she, “Look your partner in the eyes and tell him or her,” something important they just said while looking at me. I can predict that much of the time, I will get a protest of, “I’m pretty sure they just heard me,” to which I will say, “Right, but it’s so different if you say it to them—can you just try it, right now, look him or her in the eye and say what you just said to me?” That might sound somewhat awkward, and I try to reduce the awkwardness as much as I can with space, but aw ..read more
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New Workbook for Couples Release Date Set!
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
3y ago
I have had lots of blog post ideas this year, but they were all put on hold because I have been hard at work on a pet project of mine. For a long time, I have wanted to put a workbook into the hands of couples to help explain healing through attachment principles using what I have learned through a combination of clinical and research practices. I am hoping this will benefit couples all along the romantic connection spectrum. I’m convinced that safe attachment in couples benefits the greater community. The physical copy won’t be released until September 22, 2020 (which I consider a very fortu ..read more
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Marriage Unmasked: Removing the Costume and Changing the Narrative
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
4y ago
In a typical conversation with a couple the other day, the wife turned to me after her husband responded in a nurturing way and explained, “OK, here’s where I’m struggling: Imagine for years and years and years you are living with this big, angry Tyrannosaurus Rex, and you are constantly battling this creature and never feeling safe, because it is always coming at you with aggression, and as nice as you are, you always have this T-Rex coming at you, no matter what you do, and suddenly the T-Rex calms down and acts differently and seems safe, but you can only see this dangerous T-Rex and it do ..read more
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What Kindergarten Taught Me About Romantic Love
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
4y ago
I can recall various childhood memories durably with a vivid sense of time and place. One reminiscent collage is that of my “first love.” On my first day of Kindergarten, I set eyes on a strawberry-blonde 5-year-old boy with exceptional hygiene and the impeccable haircut of a tiny executive. His name had appealing resonance, and while I will assign an alias to protect his privacy, let’s just say it sounded a lot like “Jeffrey Scott Jones.” Not Jeffrey. Jeffrey Scott. ALWAYS…and “Jeff,” “Jeffie,” “JJ,” or “J-man,” were certainly out of the question. I was smitten. He ran with the male wolf pack ..read more
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Micro-Cheating and its Insidious Risk to Marriage
Compassionate Connections Counseling | Uniting Couples to Strengthen Families
by lkschade
5y ago
Anyone who has read my blog for any length of time will know that I am continually harping on boundaries as an important construct for marital stability. In the current digital social climate, if there are any natural boundaries at all to prevent infidelity in a marriage, they are so diffuse and easily crossed that their existence is barely recognizable. Micro-cheating is a relatively new relationship buzzword alluding to small behaviors that both approach and potentiate infidelity. In my clinical practice, more couples than ever are arguing about partners’ decisions for interacting with extr ..read more
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