First, if you struggle with communication your marriage or feel like you are talking in circles, our team of couples therapists in Waterford, CT would love to help you. In this article, you will learn three tips for a better marriage. But, it is important to know that this article is no replacement for marriage counseling itself. Do you wonder if your spouse is cheating on you? Is trust missing? As well, do you wake up at 3am with anxiety about your marriage? Are responsibilities, stressors, and work bogging you down? Do you want more touch or a better sex life with your spouse? Holistic, creative marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut can give you the coping skills you need.
Working with a professional marriage counselor in Waterford, Connecticut canal you to develop a better sex life and more emotional intimacy.
Many times, our team works with couples who have a history of affairs, and infidelity, and betrayal. Plus, childhood trauma, loss, disorder and eating, and self criticism all play a role in holistic marriage counseling. We focus on your whole self, your mind, body, and spirit in holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut. If you have challenges and your romantic relationship or want to have calmer conversations around money, parenting, or sex, couples therapy can beneficial you.
For tip number one, choose to be intimate in many different ways.
In holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut, it is important to know that you can be intimate in many different ways. A lot of times, couples learn sex and physical connection are the only ways to connect. However, through long-term love and positive coping tools, you can build intimacy and emotional connection in other ways. Maybe, your spouse has depression. And, their depression medication prevents them from having a sex drive. Or, your spouse has recently gone through grief and loss or a miscarriage and does not want to have sex. Or, they had a PTSD flashback from being sexually abused and raped in college.
How holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut supports safe touch and a healthy sex life
If your spouse doesn’t want to have sex, this can leave you feeling sad, with a feeling of rejection. And, holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut provides other outlets for security and touch. So, you can still feel hopeful about connecting in ways beyond having sex. One way that you can improve emotional bonding and intimacy beyond sex is by doing foot rubs.
You can use extra virgin coconut oil. And, spend 10 minutes a day massaging each other’s feet.
Simply put, a foot massage can provide emotional and physical relaxation and connection. For couples seeking marriage counseling in Waterford Connecticut, Wisdom Within Counseling offers you playful ideas. As well, your marriage therapist helps you rebuilding desire. Lastly, if you have an experience of loss or complex trauma in your past, thinking about sex might be scary. Maybe, it’s hard to trust your partner again, so starting with a foot rub can be a good place to begin.
And, for tip number two, is better to be honest than to lie.
Moreover, another tip for a better marriage is to be honest. Often times, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling works with distant couples who feel alone. As well holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut helps distant couples who want closeness back. Have there have been many secrets that cause distance in your relationship? For example, emotional cheating can be a form of lying. Also, lying can be physically cheating. Any secret keeping can be a form of lying. Now, we are not talking about hiding your spouse’s birthday gift. Really, lying is about keeping secrets just for you. Essentially, secrets are lies that prevent intimacy.
In holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut, you can overcome and heal after affairs, betrayals, and infidelity
In addition, lying and cheating are negative coping strategies. So, they often begin in childhood to get by. Many times, distant couples have secrets, cheating and infidelity within their relationship. And, they do not understand the root of why these behaviors occur. Therefore, working with a couples therapist in Waterford, Connecticut can help you understand understand what is causing the lying and cheating to be taking place. Simply put, working within holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut can help you understand strategies to prevent infidelity in the future.
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Understanding the behaviors of cheating
More commonly than not, lying is a behavior that was used back childhood to get what they wanted. So, your marriage counselor in Waterford, Connecticut can help you understand childhood trauma around lying and cheating. Maybe, your spouse had parents that cheated on each other. And, lying was culturally common. Or, your spouse has a different understanding of what lying and cheating verses what it means to you. Overall, holistic marriage counseling and Waterford Connecticut can help you learn to be honest. Lastly, you can learn to have those difficult, vulnerable conversation that you might be avoiding.
Third, learn to pause and come back to talking
As well, another tip to improve your marriage is learning to take a moment to pause. Frequently, distant couples gets stuck in a high conflict cycle of fighting and frustration. For one, you might want to be heard, feel loved, and really need support. But, in that moment, for whatever reason, your spouse is rejecting you. The feeling of rejection in that moment takes a really hard emotional toll. Therefore, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling specializes with fighting couples who get stuck in a yelling. And, if you are constantly fighting, holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut can help you understand the cycle.
What emotions are trying to be talked about, but are hidden under the fight?
Maybe, fear of abandonment. Or, underneath the yelling, your spouse may have a need to be loved. Essentially, learning to pause and take a time out are important communication skills. At times, your spouse can’t be there to support you. Holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut can help navigate these tough times. For one, there are times in every marriage where your partner will not be able to comfort or soothe you.
But, from marriage counseling and Waterford, Connecticut, you can learn the appropriate time to talk.
And, you can learn the appropriate time to practice self-care and soothe. And, from holistic marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut, you can learn skills to relax yourself. Yes, self-care is a beautiful part of holistic couples therapy sessions. Your therapist supports your whole self within supporting your relationship. Sometimes, your spouse might be worried about work, or unable to communicate with you because they never learned those skills in childhood. So, whatever the reason behind the communication issues, it is important to learn to pause.
As well, if your spouse never learned how to emotionally communicate with they are feeling in childhood years, Waterford, CT holistic marriage counseling can help you both communicate and clear and calm ways now.
Marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut is creative and holistic
In addition, many couples who have been to counseling before have had bad experiences where a therapist took one person’s side. Maybe, you didn’t like your last therapist. In couples counseling in Waterford, Connecticut, we specialize with distant, fighting couples who need help learning how to communicate better. Essentially, your marital therapist helps you build a healthier and more loving relationship. And addition, the team at Wisdom Within Counseling understands that romance and sex play are interwoven with childhood trauma. Maybe, you also are experiencing disordered eating, struggling with a fad diet, and have a big inner critic.
So, if you want to gain a healthy body image and a healthier sex life, marriage counseling and Waterford, Connecticut is creative and holistic.
As well, Wisdom Within Counseling helps couples who have experiences of complex trauma, PTSD, loss and grief. As well, in a long-term marriage, you may see your spouse experience anxiety or depression. Maybe, your spouse is struggling with alcoholism or is bipolar. Perhaps, you lost your job and feel like a failure. Or, your young adult or teenager has recently been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. And, of of these stresses is challenging your marriage.
At Wisdom Within Counseling in Waterford, Connecticut, you get creative and expressive arts to help rebuild the security in your marriage.
Relationships
Anxiety or depression
PTSD, loss, grief
Disordered eating, fad diets, self-criticism, and poor body image.
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Childhood trauma
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Couples therapy in Waterford, Ct helps your children too.
In addition, we help couples rebuild playfulness by using creative expressive arts as well as holistic counseling. Many times, couples go to therapy to talk and talking doesn’t work for everyone. At times, talking about the past can be empowering. However, couples that get stuck in a fighting and yelling cycle of high conflict need alternatives to talking when appropriate. Therefore, our team of couples therapists in Waterford, CT specialize in incorporating drama therapy, Rehearsals For Growth, and acting into couples counseling. For one, you can play a fun game with your spouse with the guidance of your marriage counselor.
As well, couples in counseling can choose from yoga and mindfulness meditation’s to provide inner peace.
Many times, couples do not have a ritual of connection. And, yoga and meditation can provide that shared connection. As well, in marriage counseling in Waterford, Connecticut, your therapist can offer you art therapies and creative painting. For one, you can use glitter gel pens to express what you might not have words to share. As well, if you’re a spouse didn’t learn about emotional coping tools in childhood, painting and art therapy help you express. And, art therapies can be a coping tool outside of marriage counseling.
Maybe, you and your spouse start to incorporate painting in art therapies into your marriage with your children and family.
Simply going outside for your marriage counseling and being in the sunshine and fresh air can be the change environment you need. Maybe, you want to do walking therapies by the Niantic Bay Boardwalk. As well, Wisdom Within Counseling offers traditional talk counseling for the times when you just need to plop down on the sofa and unload.
So, whether you want to process in the past verbally or by painting through creative therapies, Wisdom Within Counseling specialize in helping couples thrive.
Yoga and mindfulness meditation
Walk and talk outdoors by the beach
Traditional talk counseling
Art and creative therapies
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