Fear of Intimacy
Intimacy involves a high degree of vulnerability and any time that we are challenged to drop our defenses we are likely to feel some degree of apprehension in regard to…
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Breaking Free from Unskillful Patterns
We’re helpless victims of our conditioning until we become conscious. ~ Ajan Sumato Linda: Some of us come into marriage with an optimistic attitude; and some of us are aware that we…
The Challenge of Creating the Partnership of Our Dreams
Linda: If you’re finding it challenging to create the relationship of your dreams, it doesn’t mean that you’re a poor student. Rest assured that most others probably don’t find the…
In Service to Each Other
Linda: Consider this story of devotion about a couple that takes time and effort to show how much they cherish each other. Mira: “I know that Ari loves me, and even when…
From Fear to Fearlessness
Fearlessness is not an absence of fear; it is being committed to something bigger than the fear. That something can be another person’s safety, a higher purpose, a calling, or…
6 Ways to Nurture Your Relationship During the Holidays
We’d like to share a piece about our work originally published by Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and written by Portland Helmich interviewing Linda and Charlie Bloom During the…
We Are All Members of the Scar Clan
Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform…
Having the Courage to Desire
Linda: The foundation of vision is desire. To even begin such a process, it is necessary to trust that such an outcome is possible for us and that we are worthy…
30 Characteristics of Happy Couples
Linda:When my husband Charlie and I were interviewing the happiest couples we could find, we could clearly see that they were among the group that was keeping passionate romance alive…
Transparency of Feelings
Through the gateway of feeling your weakness lies your strength Through the gateway of feeling your pain lies your pleasure and joy. Through the gateway of feeling your fear lies…
Intimacy, Ecstasy & Other Ordinary Miracles
Linda: Ecstasy means to drive out of one’s senses, to go out of your mind. Stacis is senses; ec is to go out of. Ex means out. Ecstasy is going…
Moving Beyond Either/Or Thinking
Linda: Most of us have been brought up to think in either/or terms. We may not even realize how much it is costing us to continue these old patterns that dominate…
It’s Never Too Late to Repair Damaged Trust
There is no statute of limitations regarding hurt feelings or wounded trust. The bad news is that the pain of unfinished business can continue for years; the good news is…
A Story of Recovery from Post Traumatic Stress
Linda: Terrance reported to me that of all the challenges that he experienced in his life, and there have been many, the greatest and the one in which his wife’s support…
Sixty-five Years Together and Still Plenty of Romance
Linda: Many young people fear they will be trapped in a marriage that has become stale, predictable, and boring. The term commitment phobic often refers to a terror of being stuck…
Relatedness and Autonomy, A Delicate Balance
“Successful mountain climbers know that they must spend at least as much time if not more, in tending their base camp as they actually do climbing mountains, for their survival…