by Christina Canuto | Jan 20, 2025 | communication, couples
The New Year brings opportunity for self reflection, which often includes insights into our relationship with self, and others. Do your New Year relationship goals include deepening the emotional bond you have with your partner? At Lotus Counseling Group, our licensed...
by Christina Canuto | Jan 20, 2025 | communication, couples
Maintaining shared meaning in relationships doesn’t have to be stressful or forced. Strengthening connection in 2024 might mean setting time aside that works for both of you and creating a routine out of checking in on shared goals, identifying obstacles, and planning...
by Christina Canuto | Jan 20, 2025 | communication, couples
You can rope the Gottman Method for building meaning into other goals for The New Year. New Year relationship resolutions are often already focused on reflection of the past year and best hopes for the year ahead. Through reflecting on shared values, crafting rituals...
by Christina Canuto | Jan 20, 2025 | communication, couples
As The New Year begins, it offers us time and space to reflect on what matters most. Naturally, this brings up thoughts about our relationships. Building rich and meaningful partnerships doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Through cultivating shared meaning, you can use...
by Christina Canuto | Dec 18, 2024 | family-communication, holidays
Who do you know you can lean on for support this holiday season? The holidays are a time when relationships offer an opportunity to re-focus on what matters most in life – our social connections with others. Lean on Loved Ones for Support Asking for help can be...
by Christina Canuto | Dec 18, 2024 | family-communication, holidays
All families have stories of both crises and strengths. Trials and tribulations are a part of building family resilience. Identifying these stories, and celebrating them through story-telling and traditions, can help you strengthen generational relationships and honor...
by Christina Canuto | Dec 18, 2024 | family-communication, holidays
Have you ever noticed how time seems limited during the holiday season? How stressed you can be by family relationships and unresolved conflict? And what about setting a budget for holiday spending and gift-giving? Setting boundaries with yourself and family members...
by Christina Canuto | Dec 18, 2024 | family-communication, holidays
Don’t let triangulation in family relationships ruin the joy and magic of the season. By building assertive communication and cultivating a willingness to address toxic patterns, you can use the holidays as a time to reformulate any unhelpful communication in your...
by Christina Canuto | Dec 18, 2024 | family-communication, holidays
The holidays are a time where we are often around our loved ones more than other times of the year. Even though this gives us opportunities to reconnect, it also creates more space for family tensions and unresolved conflicts to arise. Common Holiday Communication...
by Christina Canuto | Dec 18, 2024 | family-communication, holidays
Have you ever waited until the last second to force a boundary in a relationship? This often leaves us tense, the other person defensive, and both parties unsatisfied. When we build boundaries from a foundation of compassion and love, we give ourselves and the other...
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