New Group 5 Gifts Ideas for Holiday Romance  a ritual is a healthy adaption essential to humankind’s survival. As you perform rituals, your brain rewards you with neurochemicals that signal “keep doing this because it may save your life someday.” | x |
A Proper and Meaningful Way to Say I am Sorry  Tell your partner that it matters to you that you hurt him or her. How does witnessing your spouse’s pain make you feel right now? Sad, disappointed, guilty, scared, regretful? Your partner needs to see and hear that you are affected; that you feel enough pain and remorse to avoid repeating the hurtful action. | x |
Couples weekend workshop 2017  You'll feel relaxed and comfortable, and even find the experience to be a fun, bonding time as a couple. I'll teach you through humorous, yet insightful, stories and role-plays. I'll also provide further explanation into the research and data to support the concepts and skills taught at the workshop. | x |
Elements of a True Apology - principleskills  It’s unhelpful to tell your partner that his or her perspective is wrong and “could not possibly be true” because it contradicts your own point of view. Remember, each person’s perspective is their truth. In fact, the process of validating each other’s feelings and experiences affects your relationship in an incredibly positive way. | x |
Couples Weekend Workshop in Denver  The Art and Science of Love is a workshop for couples in all stages of their relationship, and has been shown to achieve positive results similar to 6 months of couples therapy. Why? Because it is based on proven methods and relationship concepts. You'll go home with a package of techniques, cards, tools and tips to continually elevate your relationship. | x |
Professional Training Workshop for Couples Therapists and counselors  Caralee Frederic is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), Certified Gottman therapist (CGT) and Certified Sexual Addiction Recovery Therapist (SRT). She has been using the Gottman method with couples since 2003, and was the first to bring the "Art and Science of Love" Gottman couples' workshop to Colorado. | x |
Are you a beauty or a beast in your Relationship?  We studied 3,000+ couples for decades to develop the ultimate guide to elevating your relationship to a happier, healthier place. See whether you are Beautiful or Beastly in your relationship, and how you can improve. | x |
See your outcomes for Beauty vs Beast Quiz  You know you have a special relationship, but realize you are capable of feeling so much more for your partner. Your relationship is beautiful at times, but you find you’re both stuck in the same conflicts. These gridlocks are likely affecting your intimacy. Learning practical conflict-management skills and understanding your own underlying issues would help you shed the Beast that sometimes rears its ugly head. | x |
Finding 8-Cow Moments  There are two parts to building Love Maps. First, partners must add to the Love Map of their relationship. This simply means spending time together, creating fond memories, and being interested in one another. However, to really deepen the Love Map, the couple must then be able to identify, recall and re-tell cherished moments – similar to the way Valeria and Alexandria recall and re-tell the story of their overseas IM-chat. Remembering the story is just as important as creating it. | x |
10 Things To Know About Gottman  Before Dr. John Gottman’s initial studies, few researchers studied relationships, as many in the psychology field felt results would be unreliable since individuals and couples have vastly different personalities and actions. | x |
Intimate Solutions by Certified Gottman Therapist  Intimate Solutions is a broad term I use to describe my work of helping couples work toward and ultimately achieve “Oneness.” My methods and therapies for Intimate Solutions are integrated into the counseling and therapy I provide for individuals and couples who are undergoing Couples Sexual Recovery, Addiction Recovery, Partner Recovery, as well as Couples Therapy & Counseling. | x |
Who Should Attend a Couples Workshop  COUPLES WHO: value the chance for a marriage or relationship “check up.” want to ensure their relationship is sustainable and lasting. has been in a short- or long-term relationship. | x |
Couples Workshop is for engaged couples and newlyweds  Start your marriage on the right path. Learn how couples in happy, long-lasting marriages work through gridlocked conflict, identify and overcome underlying issues, and maintain intimacy. | x |
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Group 2 Defensiveness is Offensive  How a couple responds when a conflict arises is key to whether the relationship is heading toward lasting happiness or unhappiness and, perhaps, even divorce. Being able to manage conflict will ultimately increase trust and reinforce friendship.
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It is not me, it is you - principleskills  Conflict generates strong emotions and reveals to us and our partner what’s important to us. After all, we don’t fight about what doesn’t matter to us. Conflict invites us to address issues as they arise, before evolving into bigger problems. The process of working through a problem can build greater understanding and intimacy between people. | x |
Stress of police work on marriage  many law enforcement officers, due to the nature of the job, develop characteristics such as pessimism, irritability, apathy and disconnect. This is, in part, due to the physical effects of being on a biological roller coaster of hypervigilance for safety at work and the let-down effect once off duty. | x |
Couples fight about this more than anything else much ado about nothing  if their relationship was one riddled with sarcasm, disdain for other’s opinion, harsh words, lack of physical touch, then Michelle would likely read Dan’s detached behavior as “he’s so selfish and self-absorbed; dinner is going to be long and horrible; | x |
Recognize and counter 3 types of harmful betrayals  While intimate physical contact is easily recognized as infidelity or cheating, sexless betrayals are more difficult to identify. As a result, these betrayals may fester under the surface, until significant damage is done to the relationship. | x |
My Journey to becoming a Gottman couples therapist  the parents were from vastly different countries and their cultural differences strained their marriage. They fiercely loved their teenage son who suffered from anxiety and depression, and desperately sought ways to help him. As I worked with the teenager, I saw that much of his anxiety was related to his parents’ volatile marriage; he felt torn between loyalties and lived in constant fear of divorce. | x |
Why I Become a Gottman Couples Therapist  Some parents struggled in their own husband-wife relationship and, as expected, they were far too stressed to provide necessary support for their children struggling with serious issues such as depression, ADHD, substance abuse and panic disorders. But even parents with healthy marriages were taxed by the weight of helping their children with mental and emotional disorders. | x |
Gottman-Certified Workshops in Colorado - ELEVATE Your LOVE  ELEVATE your love by attending Caralee Frederic's workshops presented in Colorado's beautiful rocky mountains.
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About Certified Gottman Couples Therapist  Founder of Principle Skills Relationship Center, Caralee is a Certified Gottman Therapist, presenter of ‘The Art and Science of Love‘ couples workshop, and a Certified Sexual Addiction Recovery Therapist.
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