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Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage  By John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman and Joan DeClaire

AUDIOBOOK: The skills to turn couples relationship problems around and create strong, lasting unions.
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Feeding the Starved Marriage  By Matt Townsend

AUDIOBOOK: This presentation will help you lift your relationship to an entirely new level.
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How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women  By Terrence Real

AUDIOBOOK: The demand for intimacy in marriage must be met with new skills...
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Rekindle The Passion
with the 4C's  by Steve Brody and Cathy Brody.
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When couples enter midlife together, a myriad of pressures, issues and concerns await them. The children head out into the world while an elderly mother in need of care may move in. A spouse may experience declining health.

Dissatisfaction, depression and boredom, which may have plagued the relationship but been kept at bay for the sake of "the family," could emerge as the children leave home and a couple spends more time together again.

What can a couple do to address midlife issues and bring the focus back on themselves and any facet of their marriage that may have been neglected while the children were at home?

Sexual intimacy often is lost in the balancing of kids, career and housekeeping responsibilities during the childrearing years. Nationally recognized relationship counselors Steve and Cathy Brody offer key insights on couplehood at midlife in their book "Renew Your Marriage at Midlife" (Penguin Putnam, 1999). They recommend the Four Cs of sexual arousal (creativity, courage, communication, courtship) to set the home fires burning again.

The Four Cs excerpted below are from the book Renew Your Marriage at Midlife: a guide to growing together in love by Steve and Cathy Brody*:

Creativity Don't become the victim of routine.

Courage You need the courage to stand by your needs and desires.

Communication Besides enhancing intimacy, communication helps resolve sex problems.

Courtship Success rarely happens without sustained effort and ongoing attentiveness. *excerpted with permission from the Brodys' book, Renew Your Marriage at Midlife, G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Putnam Inc., copyright © 1999 by Steve Brody and Cathy Brody.
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Eros and the Circle of Divine Love by David Fideler
Love is more than a merely human emotion. In the Greek tradition, the power of Eros was seen as the underlying force which moves the heavenly spheres and animates all of existence. Love is the magnetic pull which binds all of creation together into a seamless unity…
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Re-statement of Romance by Wallace Stevens
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The night knows nothing of the chants of night.
It is what it is as I am what I am:
And in perceiving this I best perceive myself
And you. Only we two may interchange
Each in the other what each has to give.
Only we two are one, not you and night,
Nor night and I, but you and I, alone,
So much alone, so deeply by ourselves,
So far beyond the casual solitudes,
That night is only the background of our selves,
Supremely true each to its separate self,
In the pale light that each upon the other throws.
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“Tips for Husbands to Reconnect from an Emotionally Abusive Relationship” by Dr. Steven Stosny on Oprah
If you've been in an emotionally abusive relationship, Dr. Steven Stosny explains, you almost certainly have developed habits of emotional disconnection.  free

Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success

BOOK: Natural talent vs. practice-makes-perfect. Syed uses personal experience and solid research to explain how excellence is less about innate skill and more about determination and "purposeful" practice; but, you be the judge...
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The Brain in Love: 12 Lessons to Enhance Your Love Life

BOOK: Based on Dr. Daniel Amen’s cutting-edge neuroscience research, The Brain in Love shares twelve lessons that help you enhance your love life through understanding and improving brain function.
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