After months of planning and crowdsourcing ideas on ways to strengthen our marriage we were so excited to begin the first phase of the Strong Marriage Experiment with the first action being that of dreaming about (and documenting) our highest hopes for our life together. Unfortunately, we had the sad misfortune of getting into a…
Marriage
The Strong Marriage Experiment: The Ground Rules
We got so many great ideas for our Marriage Experiment from all the folks we asked about practical, actionable ways to strengthen our marriage. We wanted to do each one every single day but the drum beat of responsibilities and schedules made that impossible so we decided to choose three things to do every day…
Introducing The StrongLuv Marriage Experiment
We are thrilled to finally share something that has been a labor of love for us for quite a while now. We are kicking off our new Relationship Blog, StrongLuv, with the first of three 21 day experiments in hopes of creating Stronger bonds in the relationships that matter most. Starting on Valentines Day we’ll be…
Radical Acceptance: The Missing Ingredient to Forgiveness
We constantly hear about the importance of forgiveness but don’t you think forgiveness can be confusing? What is forgiveness exactly? It seems elusive to me, like an idea I can’t quite wrap my mind around. It’s talked about so much it’s assumed we all know what it is and how it’s done. Recently I started…
Counseling is for Crazy People
I find it curious that counseling has a stigma attached to it. Couples therapy especially. Maybe it’s the fact that I aspired to be a therapist for many years or the reality that counseling has helped our family tremendously, but I can’t wrap my head around why people are so opposed to getting help for…