4 Essential Questions to Consider Before You Tie the KnotGetting Married? Hills District Marriage Counsellor Recommends to Have These Eye-Opening Conversations First. Marriage is an exciting new chapter in anyone’s life. Having a partner to travel through life with is motivating, because you can take on new adventures and challenges together. However, marriage is a…
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4 Types of Attachment and How They Affect Your RelationshipsDiscover your Attachment Style Your attachment style may affect your relationship in ways that on the surface level may disguise as everyday stress or even personality. Attachment Theory describes how the bonds we form in childhood shape adult relationships, attributing particular behaviours in adulthood to childhood…
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How to Reignite the Spark and Ensure it Stays AlightTry these strategies to maintain your relationship flame Relationships can be compared to a fire. They need the perfect balance of oxygen and kindling, before adding larger logs. They need stoking so the spark can transform into a warm, powerful fire. If you ignore or neglect…
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Relationship Conflict: What is it? How to Manage and RepairLocking horns? Use these coping strategies to transform conflicts into an opportunity to improve connection. Conflict in relationships is often unavoidable. All relationships are expected to experience good times, and some not-so-good times. The good times can create happy memories and strong connections with your partner.…
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Infidelity: What Do I Do If My Partner Has Cheated On Me?Gain an understanding of common emotions and coping strategies Trust is an essential component in a healthy relationship. So to discover that the trust you placed in your partner has been betrayed is an awful thing to come to terms with. You will likely…
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Australia’s loneliness Epidemic: How to identify and manage feelings of loneliness.Feeling Alone? Let’s dive deep into the planet of loneliness. Most of us have experienced this overwhelming negative feeling of loneliness at some stage in our lives. Given how common this feeling is, it raises the question of why it is such a taboo issue…
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The Complexities of grief and lossStrategies to effectively cope with grief – A journey of healing Grief and loss are a painfully normal part of life, an experience universal to the human condition. Grief may follow a physical loss, such as the loss of a loved one, or follow an emotional loss, such as the…
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Health Anxiety: What is it? Do you have it? And How can you Manage it? Sometimes it can be challenging to not worry about your own health and the health of others. Add a global pandemic to the mix, with dramatic health focused news, and it becomes that much more complex. In fact, it’s…
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What is relationship counselling?Pathways to find the right support for your relationship. How relationship counselling can help strengthen and deepen your relationships. What is relationship counselling? Relationship counselling, also known as couples therapy or marriage counselling, is a specialised practice that helps couples better understand their differences and/or perpetual conflicts to build a stronger foundation…
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What is individual counselling and how does it work?How talking can help you manage and heal difficult and painful emotions. Considering seeing a therapist? It can feel daunting, especially when you don’t understand what it’s “supposed” to look like, or why sitting in a room talking with another person somehow helps you make lasting changes.…
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