Please Don't Wait Until the Bags are Packed!!!!

A small amount of my practice is seeing couples. The majority of those couples are the ones who are pretty much checked out of the marriage and someone is already meeting with lawyers. I do have, from time to time, the couples who come in who are truly committed to making things work. They realize they have hit a bit of a rough patch, are having communication issues, or just not making their relationship a priority. I commend these people greatly. There is that idea that couples counseling is only for those who are having serious issues. Sadly, the people that already have the bags packed and not going to benefit as much from counseling as those who are not there yet. They are mentally checked out already.

Every single relationship has problems. It doesn't mean that things have to be over. Having the benefit of an unbiased third party can be invaluable to your relationship. You owe yourself that.

Let's face it, you don't wait until you are dying to finally see a doctor for the very first time, shouldn't your relationship have the same importance as your health?

Happy Friday everyone!!!!!!

I've become my own pet peeve........

Happy New Year almost a month late!!! Hope everyone is at least attempting to stay warm and you are hanging in there until spring actually arrives in full force!!

So, it's me here again...once again saying that an update is a wee bit overdue. When I started this blog, I had much better hopes for myself and now that I look back, I realize that I have become that blogger who gets on my own nerves! I used to follow a few blogs that I really enjoyed, and then they just stopped posting updates. I wonder if those people, like myself, had higher hopes in regular posts? Did life get in the way just a little, like my own? Where there other priorities that took precedence? I know that was my excuse for not keeping up with this. But here I am again, with a renewed desire to keep up with updating this. I still have people from time to time asking me about another update. So once again, I am going to prioritize my priority.

The fact is, I really do enjoy helping people and hearing their stories and assisting them on their way to a better life. I love my job and have a strong belief that everyone could benefit from counseling at some point in their life. Therefore, in my effort to hit a jump start on updating this again, I am going back to a post I wrote a while ago, outlining exactly what it is that I do. Hopefully it will help answer some questions for you, give you a little jump start to seek out the help that you might need, or to reach out to and encourage a friend that might benefit from seeing a counselor. Call me, we can chat, if I am not the perfect match for you, I will help you find someone who is. And please, if you have had negative experiences in counseling before, PLEASE don't give up on the benefits of it, find a counselor who is a good fit for you, you deserve it for yourself!

As always, I welcome and encourage your comments and here's to not hoping, but KNOWING you will be hearing from me a lot more often this year!!!

And hang in there, I just know the groundhog will give us very good news this weekend!!!!!

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