Stop. Reflect. Connect.
FOR DECISION MAKING Whenever you are making a difficult or important decision, or disagree about how to go about something, the Stop-Reflect-Connect tool for Decision…
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Embracing the Other’s Value
The call to unity is a call to be predisposed to see things from a couple perspective, taking the other into account and embracing that…
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Conflicting Values
Behind every behaviour or decision that you make, is a value; something that you hold in high esteem and is advanced in some way by…
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Priorities & Ideals
What are your priorities? Priorities and Ideals are principles that you embrace as important to the quality of life you hope to experience. An Ideal…
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God’s Love Lavished Upon Us
“God is Love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” 1 Jn 4:16 According to Pope Benedict XVI,…
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The Redemption of the Body
“The man and his wife were both naked yet they felt no shame” – Gn 2:25 The BattleGround of the heart We all know that…
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The Power of Forgiveness
Let’s face it, your fiancé is not the only person who can or has hurt or disappointed you. Outside injuries, whether new or ancient, limit…
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Free to Love
The challenge before you is to learn to love the other effectively and to do so wholeheartedly and consistently with God’s abundant grace. Clearly some…
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My Family of Origin
People often say that “you marry into a family”. This is certainly true in that you gain a whole new set of relatives, but it…
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Formation – Family of Origin
This session is designed to help you see clearly the pictures in your brain of what you think is right and normal. That is, your…
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Everyday Communication
Good communication… IS ALWAYS OTHER-CENTRED The best way to stay other-centred and ensure effective communication, even amid the stress of every day situations, is for…
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Emotional Communion
Emotional Communion is more than just reading or listening actively to what our loved one is sharing. It involves opening our heart in vulnerability to…
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Unregulated Self-expression
Common Traps When Speaking Generally, men are less dependent than women on verbal expression to establish connection and emotional intimacy with their spouse. This imbalance…
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Communion of Persons
“…man, as male-female is a person, created in the ‘image and likeness of God,’…this image is realised in the communion of persons.” TOB, n 69:4.…
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Listening with the Heart
The first step towards the kind of active listening that will facilitate an experience of intimacy is to examine some of our normal responses to…
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