Posts with tag coaching

A couple of years ago when I first started building my business, I was working unsustainably crazy hours. I wrote three books in two months, I was writing four new articles per week, and I was hopping around from city to city every few days and dealing with all of the logistics that came along with that. It...

Cell phones get a lot of flack when it comes to how we interact with each other in our relationships. But technology is a neutral entity. It’s how we use our phones that matters. Yes, if you text each other more than you talk face to face, you can experience pain in your relationship. But if you harness...

I recently asked 50 men and 50 women a simple question regarding their ideal love life. I asked them to each complete a single “sentence stem” five times. That sentence stem was “If I were to take full responsibility in my love life…”. Their answers were inspiring, beautiful, heart-warming,...

When people find out what I do for work, they tend to assume a few things about me. “You’re a relationship coach? So you must be like the perfect boyfriend then, right?” “What a fascinating job. So I guess you and your girlfriend never fight.” “You’re basically a therapist for intimate relationships…...

The majority of my private coaching clients are abnormally high functioning people. They’re self-employed and loving their work, they’re in good shape, and they have relatively conquerable issues in their love life. Over the past few years I’ve noticed a specific trend in the character traits of my...

This article goes out to all of my (hetero) female readers… On average, I get about ten messages per week from my female readers around the world along the lines of “Where have all of the good men gone? Where are the guys who will open the door for you? Why do men only want to hook up and not have a...

Fights happen in all relationships and they are a completely healthy occurrence. But are you engaging in them in a way that might be doing long-term damage to your partnership? And what if you knew how to swiftly and accurately defuse any fight from escalating? Well, wouldn’t that just be nifty! I’ll...

Do you live with your significant other, or plan to live with one in the future? Great! Read on… It’s so easy to take our relationship for granted when we live with our partner and see them every day. When you live apart from each other they seem like more of a scarce resource. When will you see...

I set out to make 2014 the year that I worked through the deepest roots of my emotional turmoil. Due to a combination of childhood bullying and depression, and a rather emotionally devastating break up in my early twenties, I feared letting people get close to me in intimate relationships for the...

Whether you’ve been dating for a few weeks, or a few decades, every couple needs a few stand-by dates that they can use to quickly reconnect. Maybe you’ve been busy. Maybe you haven’t made the time to slow down and really see each other. Maybe you’ve been having a stressful week at work and haven’t...