Tags
- compassion
- coping with anxiety
- couples therapy
- creative anxiety
- creative expression
- creative process
- death anxiety
- embracing mortality
- emotional processing
- emotional risk-taking
- encouragement
- expanding emotional capacity
- finding purpose
- friendship in marriage
- healthy relationships
- intentional living
- making meaning
- mental health
- perfectionism
- personal growth
- self-discovery
- shame
- skill-building

Living in the Spirit of Friendship
“Couples need to learn to be friends, to live with each other in a spirit of friendship, to take the quality of friendship as a guide through the tangles we have made of love.”

The Space, the Bridge, and the Encounter
Hedy Schleifer and the power of connection: “Our relationship lives in the space between us. It doesn’t live in me or in you or even in the dialogue between the two of us. It lives in the space that we live together.”