From Ugly Rules To Intimacy Tools: My Valentines day Post!

 

Hello and happy Valentines Day. I hope this new Psychology Today post will make yours a bit happier: "From Demeaning Rules to Intimacy Tools: A Wiser Path to Love. "   If you enjoy this post, I'd really appreciate it if you could like it  or share it by clicking the above links. And, as always, thank you so much for following my work.  Warmly Ken From Demeaning Rules to Intimacy Tools: A Wiser Path To Love Valentines Day can be a challenging day for single people. But it can become a day of hope--if we resolve to ignore the bankrupt dating advice foisted upon us, and finally align our search for love with the tools of real intimacy. The following three suggestions may fly in the face of most everything you’ve learned about dating--but they lead to real love.:  Read More:

 

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How to Create Deep Intimacy In Imperfect Relationships: Finding Wabi Sabi Wisdom

 

Hello and good morning! I hope you enjoy my new Psychology Today post "How to Create Deep Intimacy in Imperfect Relationships--an interview with Arielle Ford."  I love Arielle's work; its simplicity and kindness, and its focus on laughter and appreciation. If you enjoy this post, I invite you to forward or share by clicking the above links. And, as always, thank you so much for following my work.  Warmly Ken How to Create Deep Intimacy In Imperfect Relationships Arielle Ford is the bestselling author of Wabi Sabi Love. In this interview, she teaches a simple and joyful way to deepen the relationships that matter most to us. Through gentle shifts in perception inspired by the ancient Japanese artform of Wabi Sabi, we can create profound healing in our relationships. Here's how:  Read More:

 

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A wonderful book about finding the beauty in imperfect relationships

 

Hello and Happy New Year to my readers: My friend, bestselling author and relationship expert Arielle Ford, is the author of Wabi Sabi Love and The Soumate Secret. Her beautiful book, Wabi Sabi Love, teaches a path to healing in our relationships based upon the ancient Japanese artform which, in Arielle's words, "Honors all things old, weathered, imperfect and impermanent by finding the beauty and perfection in the imperfections." Wabi Sabi Love has been helpful and inspiring for me in my own intimacy journey, and, with the release of her book in paperback, Arielle is offering a series of free videos about the Wabi Sabi apporach to love.  Here's a link to receive her videos for free: https://xa112.infusionsoft.com/go/wabisabigifts/w6045/  John Gottman, a psychologist out in Seattle has devoted the last 40  years of his life to studying comitted couples.  His research has shown something powerful: there's a "magic ratio" for couples who've been together for a long time, who still like each other and being  around each other. The "magic ratio" is that, for these successful couples, there is an average of five positive interchanges for every negative one. Arielle teaches how to work with the annoying, troubling and difficult qualities you find in your loved one, and learn to see the beauty in them, and in the love that exists around those trouble spots. I love Arielle's work, ( and I know that Arielle really tries to live her vision) so I wanted to share this with you. I hope you enjoy them, and I send you all my best! ( P.s. I'm not reimbursed in any way for sharing this link with you!) Here it is again: https://xa112.infusionsoft.com/go/wabisabigifts/w6045/  Warmly Ken

 

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Finding our gifts within our flaws--and a reminder about "The Wiser Path to Love"

 

Hello and a very happy New Year to all my readers! May this year be one of growing intimacy with yourself and the world. I hope you enjoy my new Psychology Today post "How to Discover the Core Gifts Within our Deepest Wounds."  If you enjoy this post, I invite you to forward or share by clicking the above links. Thank you so much for following my work!  Also, I wanted to remind you that my new "Wiser Path to Love" teleclass series begins this Thursday--and I'd love to have you join us. Warmly Ken How to Discover Our Core Gifts Within Our Wounds On this first day of the New Year, I’d like to share a counter-intuitive approach to human change that I find tremendously exciting. Here is its central idea: Our deepest wounds frequently spring from our greatest gifts, and until we acknowledge these gifts, our wounds will often resist their own healing,  Read More:

 

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Holiday wishes for you--through a poem

 

Hello to all my readers: Wherever you may be, and whatever is going on in your life now, I want to send you my wishes for a holiday season and New Year filled with connection and intimacy. I'd love to share that wish through one of my favorite poems. Many years ago, camping in the Wind River Mountains on Wyoming, my friends and I found ourselves in the midst of a memorable sunshower. It was summertime, and we were on a sloping meadow. Half the sky was black and  dark, while half was bright and sunny. Sunlight beamed down on us as we got soaked by a gentle rain. It felt like...life. One friend was moved to share this peice of a poem by TS Eliot. "You bring me news Of a door that opens at the end of a corridor, Sunlight and singing; when I had felt sure That every corridor only led to another, Or to a blank wall; that I kept moving Only so as not to stay still. Singing and light."                             —From The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot  In your journey toward love, if you keep sharing your true heart, and building your life with those precious people who treasure you for who you are, doors will open. Somehow, they just will. Out of nowhere, sometimes. I'm so thankful for those doors, and for all the possibilities behind them. This year to come, we'll all hit moments of doorless halls, of frustrating corridor upon corridor (Hey! That sounds a lot like the world of dating!) Yet the more time we decide to spend in inspiring relationships, the more we'll find doors that can--and will--change our futures. Here's to all the wonderful new doors to come in your year ahead! With much care Ken www.KenPageLCSW.Com

 

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The Healing Gift of Non-Gratitude/Psychology Today

 

Hello to all my readers! I hope you enjoy my new Psychology Today post. I've wanted to write this for a very long time.  If you enjoy this post, I invite you to forward or share by clicking the above links. Thank you so much for following my work!  Also, I wanted to remind you that today is the last day to receive a discount for registering for my new "Wiser Path to Love" teleclass series. Warmly Ken The Healing Gift of Non-Gratitude Cultivating gratitude is a wonderful thing, but forced gratitude clouds our judgment, and usually mutates into self-recrimination. We’re all exhorted to feel gratitude, but who teaches us to honor feelings of non-gratitude: emptiness, longing, or a gut-level sense that something’s wrong? These feelings hold half the key for achieving our most precious life-goals  Read More:

 

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New 5 class Deeper Dating course with coaching - discount for early registration

 

Hello to all my readers, I am delighted to announce a new five-session Deeper Dating series of classes and coaching -with a special discount for early registration.  These ideas have been life-changing for thousands of readers and event participants, and the new format will offer personalized coaching in every class. The class is for people of all ages, backgrounds, life-situations and sexual orientations. Come join us--and give yourself the gift of deeper intimacy in the New Year.   THE WISER PATH TO LOVE: A FIVE SESSION SERIES OF CLASSES AND COACHING WITH KEN PAGE, LCSW Register now (full payment) and receive $25 off the cost of the class. After 12/10, the price will go up to $199. Installment payment plan is also available. Date: Thursday evenings, January 3, 2013 to February 7, 2013 (No session 1/17)  Time: 8:30pm — 9:45pm EST.  All classes will be recorded in case you miss them. REGISTER HERE:   Comments from previous participants:   I am in awe of how you work, the way you can follow essence down to some key source of love/healing/wounds/gifts.    It's a very healing teaching approach and the content is superb, insightful, spiritual, and gentle. This teleseminar has created a huge shift for me.  It has replaced fear, self-judgment and confusion with understanding and consciousness.  I now understand why the relationships I had always turned out the same way, but most importantly, I understand how to move forward and find a partner who is a real fit for the real me.   I am absolutely thrilled to tell you that I have met the most amazing man. It is very early, but he legitimately seems to be the man for whom I have been waiting for a very long time. I have to say this possibility in my life is a tribute to all of the work I have been doing with you and my classmates. Your teleclass will include: Five 75 minute class sessions including 45 minutes of class and 30 minutes of personalized coaching, all designed to help you discover and embrace your own unique Core Gifts and use them to lead you to real love and self-acceptance. Exercises, field trips, and micro-meditations designed to change, heal and empower the way you search for love Downloadable handouts for each class, which will form your own deeper dating handbook An exciting community of learning including a forum to share ideas, insights and questions with other class participants A Dating Buddy (I'll match you with your buddy) to share and integrate all the insights you'll be learning in this course As a result of this class you can expect to: Discover and more deeply embrace your own Core Gifts Dramatically change and empower your approach to finding love Learn to distinguish between "relationships of deprivation" and "relationships of inspiration" Understand your life and your intimacy journey in new and life-changing ways. Teleclass Pricing and Guarantee The cost of this entire course is $174. ($199 after 12/10.) If the idea of this training interests you, I'd be delighted to have you join us. I'm also offering this money back guarantee: If you don't feel that you've received significant benefit from the class by the third session, I'll refund your money in full. Below are the links to register, either with full payment, or with a three-payment installment plan. And if you have questions about your own participation or whether this would be a match for you, feel free to call me at 516-241-1229. And please feel free to share this information with anyone you think might be interested! Warmly, Ken REGISTER HERE FOR THE COURSE

Ken Page, LCSW Ken Page, LCSW is a psychotherapist who practices in New York City, and the author of the upcoming book, Deeper Dating (Shambhala, 2014) He is the author of the very popular Psychology Today blog, Finding Love. He is the founder of Deeper Dating, and has led hundreds of workshops and retreats in the areas of spirituality and intimacy. He has led events at The Omega Institute, Rowe Conference Center, and the 92nd Street Y. He and his work have been featured in numerous media, including O, The Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, WPIX-TV, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Match.Com, The Discovery Channel, Life Magazine, WebMD and The Advocate, among others. Contact Ken Page, LCSW at Kenpage7654@aol.com for information about individual psychotherapy and workshops.

 

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