“I’m not sure why I am here, I don’t even know if I should be here” Sally sat across from me on the couch and looked down at her hands as she spoke. My face softened further into a compassionate smile. I waited for a moment but that was all she had to say for now....
Conflict is an often unwanted but unavoidable feature of being in a relationship. Not many people want to experience it, yet there can be great value in conflict. It is a necessary part of relationships that can stimulate change, growth, and new ways of being. When...
Relationships are hard. We come into them with a lifetime of emotional baggage and often unhelpful relational habits and conflict styles. Sometimes we are unaware of how damaging our patterns may be to relationships or, we know but feel helpless to stop it. It is a...
Have you ever had that feeling of emotional reactivity when you go from zero to one hundred in a matter of seconds? We express this reactivity in different ways. “I was so triggered”, “It just really got to me”, “They made me so angry”. It is a feeling of being...
One of the most effective ways to deepen and strength your relationships is through the power of your presence. I am not talking about simply being there in the physical sense, but actually being present. Undistracted – completely in the present. Your sole purpose in that moment is to be with someone fully – to encourage them to be fully seen and heard. This is a powerful practice of giving and receiving attention and fuelling better connection. It is the very foundation of warmth and connection between human beings.
Having connected with some of the world’s leading relationship experts, Amy distils all that wisdom into bite sized relationship hacks – for better love, connection, conflict and communication.
(and their antidotes)
Most of us are familiar with the term “red flags” and everyone has experienced them somewhere in their relationship history. Red flags are issues that signal problems in relationships which, left unaddressed, will eventually lead to relationship breakdown. Don’t get caught unaware…
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