Are your relationships currently a challenge?
Here are some common situations. Do any of these resonate?
- You want to get on better with someone
- You don’t have a relationship and want one
- You want to get out of one
- You are thinking of getting back into one
- A relationship is the last thing on your mind but is that OK?
- You keep getting the same problems in your relationships
- Someone has left and you are picking up the pieces
- It’s other people at work
- It’s your boss, your peers, your parents, your children
In fact for many of us relationships can be a bit of a minefield. No wonder about one third of
the UK population are single and the number is growing. Many of us have had poor role models and it is now
financially and legally so much easier to get out of a situation that doesn’t work. But where does that leave
us? Often it is with unfinished business.
Especially as a major emotional need for us as humans is love, to love another and to be
loved.
You might quite simply just fancy someone. Nice and simple. Relationships can be beautiful at the
start. But very often it doesn’t turn out like that. You might be angry towards another for
what they’ve done to you. Or you might be afraid of them. Or you might really need them.
In fact our feelings can really run riot, like feeling we aren’t loved, that our partner is
angry with us, that we are not approved of, that we are the victim in the relationship, that we’re being
rejected or abandoned. It can really hurt. And bring up painful memories.
Easier to walk away
Much easier to get out, to walk away. Suppress the pain and upset. Get on with life. Be strong. Macho it out.
Absorb yourself in your work. “I don’t need anybody in my life”.
But where does that leave you truthfully? Empty, sad, lonely, hurt, dead inside? Or yearning for another one -
that special person, the one who will sweep you off your feet, who will always be there for you?
What is possible
What is missing in all this is awareness. Awareness of your fundamental needs as a person, to
love and be loved. Awareness of what is creating the difficulties at a fundamental level. Awareness also of
effective strategies to make your relationships work.
In fact it can lead to arguably one of the most fulfilling experiences that we as humans
are gifted with, the knowledge of enduring love as experienced through and with another.
My expertise lies in helping people turn their relationships around, both through helping people
identify and resolve what is getting in the way and in developing effective
approaches that can make their relationships work for them. This is supported particularly by my
training in Gestalt, the Transpersonal and NLP, which has given me a wide range of effective techniques to help
people with.
Turn your relationships around
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