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Tag: Sacred Space

Do You Give Enough Time and Attention to Your Close Relationships?

Maude Jul 6, 2025 Tagged with Attention, Sacred Space
Do You Give Enough Time and Attention to Your Close Relationships?

I’m coming up on a big birthday, and it has invoked lots of thoughts of what I want to emphasize this coming year of my life. And, no surprise for those of you who know me and follow us, I …

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How Hanging Out Enhances and Strengthens Your Relationships

Maude Mar 23, 2025 Tagged with Play, Sacred Space
How Hanging Out Enhances and Strengthens Your Relationships

Maude, with a little assist from Phil, wrote today’s post. Phil and I have, since the very early days of our relationship, set aside a time every evening to be alone with each other. We do many different activities during …

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How Your Peaceful Relationships Are a Shelter From the Storm

Phil and Maude Oct 13, 2024 Tagged with Sacred Space
How Your Peaceful Relationships Are a Shelter From the Storm

We share an inner peace that is beyond any of the effects of the changing world we live in. This path of peace never wavers and serves to strengthen our individual struggles. Find and create a Sacred Space for yourself.

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How To Make Sure You Keep Your Relationships Alive

Phil and Maude Sep 17, 2023 Tagged with Peaceful relationships, Sacred Space
How To Make Sure You Keep Your Relationships Alive

Relationships, all relationships, only thrive when you take the time to keep them alive, vital and present. Often, long term relationships with romantic partners, family or friends, get taken for granted, become background to the challenges and daily occurrences we all deal with in life.

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How Can You Increase Quality Time in Your Relationship?

Phil Jan 15, 2023 Tagged with Peaceful relationships, Sacred Space
How Can You Increase Quality Time in Your Relationship?

We’ve spent many years looking at why we have a peaceful relationship, and one of the things is that we consistently spend time together, not only in activities like writing this blog, but time together without any plan. This is …

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For the New Year, Share Your Loves and Longings in Your Relationships

Phil and Maude Jan 2, 2022 Tagged with Sacred Space
For the New Year, Share Your Loves and Longings in Your Relationships

PHIL: Many years ago, when I was squatting in London with a bunch of other people, I wrote a proposal that we should all find a place in the country and move there. I even organized a visit to a …

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How to Honor Both Closeness and Space in Your Relationship

Phil and Maude Jul 4, 2021 Tagged with Balance, Differences, Sacred Space
How to Honor Both Closeness and Space in Your Relationship

PHIL: We live in two worlds. One is our life together. Each evening we retire early to watch Netflix, do the New York Times crossword, play word games and chill. We call this our sacred space. Each week we write …

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Why Making Time for Sacred Space in Your Relationship is so Important

Phil and Maude May 30, 2021 Tagged with Peaceful relationships, Sacred Space
Why Making Time for Sacred Space in Your Relationship is so Important

PHIL: Everybody we know seems to be venturing out again. We’re on our second trip since being fully vaccinated, and on the drive we talked about the importance of getaways and why this is so. One reason is the stimulation …

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Why Checking In Is So Important For Your Relationship

Phil and Maude Oct 6, 2019 Tagged with Checking in, Sacred Space
Why Checking In Is So Important For Your Relationship

We would like to share with you what’s happening in our relationship and how that can be applied by you so as to have a more conflict-free, peaceful relationship. We’re back from our anniversary trip, and as is our custom, …

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Are You Open to the Sacred in Your Relationship?

Phil and Maude Jun 24, 2018 Tagged with Sacred Space
Are You Open to the Sacred in Your Relationship?

Our relationship has been filled with revelations for both of us. The largest of those has been its sacred nature. We use this phrase consciously, as we came to this truth through actual experience. We call it our sacred space, …

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