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Marriage 101

THE MARRIAGE 101 COURSE AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY Marriage 101 is an opportunity to study love! This undergraduate class at Northwestern University involves a weekly lecture on an aspect of sex, love, and marriage—for example, healthy dating, conflict management, the impact of …

Building Loving and Lasting Relationships: Marriage 101

Presentation at the National Association of Marriage and Relationship Education, Anaheim, CA. Click here for more information. …

The Marriage 101 Course at Northwestern University

Every spring, I have the pleasure of teaching a course that truly is my passion, the course that lights me up year after year-- Building loving and lasting relationships: Marriage 101. It is an undergraduate course offered through the School of Education and Social Policy (SESP) at Northwestern …

Michigan Farm Women’s Symposium

March 8 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Zen Parenting Conference

March 8 @ 8:30 pm - 10:00 pm
Psychotherapy Networker 2019

March 22 @ 8:00 am - March 25 @ 5:00 pm
Loving Bravely Couples Retreat at The Omega Institute

October 25 @ 8:00 am - October 27 @ 5:00 pm

1 month ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Isn’t this the essence of love? Knowing that you’ve been here, you are here, and you will be here... that’s essential. ~Commitment, spoken and enacted, helps us feel brave enough to be vulnerable, to peel back our layers, exposing more and more of our tender spots. ~AND at the very same time, we can never reduce the risk of loss down to 0. I can love you just right and I *still* might lose you. ***** If we can’t find ways to tolerate love’s central paradox, we’re at risk of “acting out.” One of the big ways we act out
3 weeks ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Two phrases that just don’t work and must be permanently banned from our vocabularies... “Calm down.” “Cheer up.” *** In order to cultivate happy and healthy relationships, we gotta be ready, willing, and able to lead with love. Empathy FIRST. Redirection/coaching/advice LATER. *** Empathy says, “You look like you’re having a hard time.” Empathy asks, “How can I support you?” *** This shit is simple but it is not easy. Your work is to figure out what blocks your ability to trust the power of your warmth. For some of us, it’s because when someone we care about is hurting,
4 weeks ago by dr.alexandra.solomon When you fall in love with someone, INTERDEPENDENCE is par for the course. I lean on you. You lean on me. My choices impact you. Your choices impact me. When we build a life together, we become a WE. That’s good and delicious. And we can weather life’s storms a little more easily when we multiply life by the power of two (*Indigo Girls*). *** BUT couples and giving advice is tricky business. Take this scenario: Partner A is launching a new project. Partner B sees all kinds of things they think Partner A could be doing differently or more
1 week ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Blind spots. The question isn’t whether or not you have blind spots. Newsflash, we all do. The question is whether you can explore your blind spots with self-compassion and humility. *** Love and feedback go hand in hand. If we can’t make the space between us feel safe enough to share observations, reflections, hurts, and longings, we set the stage for disconnection and resentment. Bleh. We have to cultivate an atmosphere in which people can give and receive feedback. *** Here’s how it looks in action: Partner A feels hurt by Partner B. A’s job is to bring that hurt
2 weeks ago by dr.alexandra.solomon Attention Hopeless Romantics: please don’t go changing. Our world needs your passionate heart, your courageous vulnerability, and your belief in LOVE. And please know that you are NOT alone. Craving authentic connection is everyone’s default mode. It’s just that some people have gotten lost~~ *in their wounds *in toxic cultural messages that equate gentleness with weakness *in these phones that offer us too damn many options Stay the course, Hopeless Romantics. Keep hoping. Keep leading with love. Keep sharing yourself with the world. ... just also keep practicing your healthy boundaries. Read the feedback so that when you get naked

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