by Sabrina Walters | Jul 10, 2024 | Communication, Couples, Relationships
This week, Eric and I get to wrap up our exploration of Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by John Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Doug Abrams, and Rachel Carlton Abrams. One by one, we’ve done the dates and brought you along for the...
by Sabrina Walters | Jan 8, 2024 | Communication, Couples, Relationships
Welcome to a brand-new year. While I won’t be pitching any resolutions or quick fixes to jump-start your 2024, I would like to invite you and your partner to explore your dreams and goals — and not just for this year but for the long haul. Years ago, I encountered an...
by Sabrina Walters | Aug 9, 2023 | Communication, Conflict, Couples, Marriage, Relationships
In a recent blog post, we shared an overview of how to understand gridlock (and make it better). We followed that up by sharing two real-world examples of gridlock from our own practice. Today, we’re taking a closer look at what the Gottmans call dreams within...
by Sabrina Walters | Nov 3, 2022 | Communication, Core Values, Couples, Relationships
If you haven’t read our recent blog post, How to Recognize a Healthy Relationship — and Improve Yours Today, now is a great time to check it out. In it, we asked five questions to help you explore and evaluate your relationship, then get to work improving it. Here are...
by Sabrina Walters | Dec 29, 2020 | Counseling, Motivation, Spiritual
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela After the year we’ve had, who wants to bother dreaming? Who wants...