Recently, our lives have changed. A lot.
Covid has dramatically changed our day to day experience: isolation, working and schooling at home, the loss of social outlets, job insecurity, financial stress, conflict about who is doing what and how much, constant overwhelm…and, turning online to try to unwind and escape, even if just for a few moments or after everyone else has gone to bed.
If you are feeling that things are harder, you are not alone. But these times can also be an opportunity to build exceptional couple relationships —as well as positive memories, intimate moments, and genuine connection.
Consciously Connected will teach you how.
But we also see how our relationships are falling short.
The loss of outlets and constant physical closeness can lead to emotional conflict and distance. You may be wondering if you'd be better off apart.
You want so much more than to feel like roommates, co-parents, or friends. You want to feel life, vitality, and desire in the connection between you like it was when you first met.
But without solutions, you find yourself just going through the motions of daily living, feeling empty and alone on the inside, and concluding that maybe “that’s life.”
Love can be learned.
You can consciously create it in your relationship!
Hi, we’re Tal and Amanda
Amanda Green, MSW, RSW
Amanda Green, MSW, RSW
Amanda Green, MSW, RSW
Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist for couples. Full-time couples counselor in private practice with +22 years of experience.
Tal Mandelbaum, MSc
Amanda Green, MSW, RSW
Amanda Green, MSW, RSW
Emotional-Cognitive and Social Psychologist. +13 years of learning and teaching the principles of spiritual connection in relationships.
Consciously Connected...building community for couples.
Are you worried deep down that you aren’t worth attention and care? Do you sometimes think, “It doesn’t matter how hard I try or how much I do, my partner will never be happy with me and I’ll end up falling short regardless?” Are you both caught up in blame and shame?
We all go through similar struggles, as couples, both in terms of what we fight about (money, sex, parenting, jobs around the house and in-laws, etc.) as well as how we fight (loops of attack, defense and shutdown).
WE ARE ALL IN THE SAME BOAT.
IT’S TIME FOR US TO CONNECT AS A COMMUNITY OF COUPLES.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to feel normal and a sense of belonging within a community of couples?
Wouldn’t it be great not to feel like you have to hide as though you’re different from other couples?
Dr. Sue Johnson, the leader of the development of Emotionally-Focused Therapy for couples, says we are down to a “community of two” in our society which puts a lot of pressure on our partners to be our “everything.”
Well, just like the saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child,” it also takes a whole environment to keep us on track in our couple relationships. We can’t do it alone.
We need to surround ourselves with a positive environment, including other couples that will remind us what’s really important and inspire us to adopt new approaches in our relationships.
So many of our issues result from the challenging and even traumatic environments we were raised in which is why it’s so hard to change them. We need a new framework that will provide positive examples, accountability and support in learning novel ways of relating.
This is our goal. To create, alongside you, a new, supportive environment, full of couples who are learning how to connect and can encourage one another along the way!