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Year: 2017

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How to Laugh and Rejoice in Difficult Times

Phil and Maude Dec 31, 2017 Tagged with Peace within relationship, Sacred Space
How to Laugh and Rejoice in Difficult Times

Phil: The end of this year leaves both of us feeling unsettled by the social divisiveness …

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Gratefulness Expands Your Relationship and Your World

Phil and Maude Dec 24, 2017 Tagged with Gratitude
Gratefulness Expands Your Relationship and Your World

It was really easy to find this week’s blog topic: being grateful. We are so grateful …

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Balancing Togetherness and Individuality in a Relationship

Phil and Maude Dec 17, 2017 Tagged with Balance
Balancing Togetherness and Individuality in a Relationship

One of the ways to describe our relationship is that we are in balance. That is, …

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Phil and Maude’s Friday Feature: Dorothie and Martin Hellman

Phil and Maude Dec 15, 2017
Phil and Maude’s Friday Feature: Dorothie and Martin Hellman

We are excited to share with you today the work of Dorothie and Martin Hellman. The …

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How to Maintain Presence in the Face of Adversity

Phil and Maude Dec 10, 2017 Tagged with Fire, Meditation
How to Maintain Presence in the Face of Adversity

We thought we would share our individual writings this time instead of merging them. MAUDE: This …

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How to Solve Differences From a Place of Mutuality

Phil and Maude Dec 3, 2017 Tagged with Conflict-free relating, Differences, Mutual solutions
How to Solve Differences From a Place of Mutuality

This morning we were at our local breakfast nook working on blog topics. We each shared …

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The Power that Peace Brings to Your Relationship

Phil and Maude Nov 26, 2017
The Power that Peace Brings to Your Relationship
Photo by Luke Tanis on Unsplash

We often write about the absence of conflict in our relationship. Recently we’ve been discussing with …

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How Do Commitment and Presence Affect Your Relationship?

Phil and Maude Nov 19, 2017 Tagged with Commitment
How Do Commitment and Presence Affect Your Relationship?
Photo by Wilson Sánchez

When we sit down to write our blogs, we have two main principles we keep in …

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Reframe Your Feelings and Change Your Relationship

Phil and Maude Nov 12, 2017 Tagged with Boundaries, Identity, Reframing
Reframe Your Feelings and Change Your Relationship

A professor noticed that anxiety and excitement have several physiological markers in common, so she recruited …

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The Paradox of Union and Separateness in a Relationship

Phil and Maude Nov 5, 2017 Tagged with Individuality and Relationship, Union
The Paradox of Union and Separateness in a Relationship

Phil: I want to write about how we create these blogs because it illuminates the way …

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