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Art and Science of Love | couples weekend workshop | Colorado Springs | April 2019


FOR COUPLES | APRIL 26-27| Spring is in the air! Renew. Rejuvenate. Relax. Beautiful Colorado Springs is the backdrop for a meaningful, memorable getaway. Take each other’s hand and turn towards each other physically, mentally and emotionally. You’ve been piecing together advice about love from various sources, and you know you both are capable of feeling so much more for each other. Yet, you feel like you aren’t progressing. Register and receive the best, most comprehensive relationship information available: practical relationship skills based on 40+ years of research.

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‘DEFENSIVENESS’ is Offensive

‘DEFENSIVENESS’ IS OFFENSIVE Goal to Help Children Led to Specializing in Couples Therapy By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter Defensiveness is one of the “4 Horsemen” that are predictors of relationship dissolution, according to marriage expert Dr. John Gottman.

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What Unhappy and Happy Couples Teach Us

Elevate Your Love By Learning New Behaviors “If only I had known …. .” That is often the sentiment of divorced couples or couples in distressed relationships. As a marriage therapist and counselor for nearly 20 years, I’ve talked with couples who expressed how they

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How To Choose a Couples Workshop

By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter Attending a couples weekend workshop can be a worthwhile investment in your relationship, but selecting the right workshop can be a daunting task. I conducted an extensive research into couples workshops and retreats.

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Couples Therapy: Myths vs. Facts

By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter Sometimes, couples who seek therapy are facing difficulties that are especially challenging, and they may even be on the brink of divorce. Other times, couples simply come to fine-tune an already solid relationship.

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Gridlock Stopping You in Your Tracks?

By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter Turn Gridlock Into Meaningful Dialogue Let’s de-clutter our lives of relationship gridlock — the perpetual arguments and contentiousness that stops us from moving forward in our most important relationships. In an earlier blog,

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Don’t Get On That Horse!

Criticism, One of the Four Horsemen. “Stay grounded,” I said to the couple in my office. “Don’t get on that horse.” What horse was in my third-floor office? This time it was Criticism, one of the Four Horsemen identified by Dr. John Gottman that predicts

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Predicting Divorce with 94% Accuracy

By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” The Gottman Institute’s Family Research Laboratory, aka the “Love Lab,” completed six studies of couples that began with a hypothesis about factors leading to divorce. Based on

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7 Ways to Grow Love

By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter (Excerpt from “How To Keep Love Going Strong” by John M. and Julie Gottman, yesmagazine.org, Jan. 3, 2011) Enhance your love map: Emotionally intelligent couples are intimately familiar with each other’s world. They

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The Perfect Valentine’s Gift

By Caralee Frederic, LCSW | Certified Gottman Therapist | Couples Workshop Presenter Surprise. Intrigue. Delight. Admiration. Romance. Perhaps even anger. Your partner may express a range of these emotions – at a very intense level – when you present him or her with this gift:

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