Category: Relationship
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Making Criticism Your Friend
by Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay Think of the last time someone criticized or complained about your behavior. How did it feel? Easy-peasy? Painful? If you’re like most of us, criticism and complaints can be an uneasy experience, and sometimes even crushing. It can feel like you’re being judged, rejected and told you aren’t good…
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How Vulnerable Are You?
by Barry Kerr “It is no measure of good health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – J. Krishnamurti To feel…anything…is to be vulnerable. While thoughts are generally experienced in our minds, feelings can flood our bodies, color our sensory perceptions, and reveal intimate information about us to others, in ways we don’t normally…
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I Love You….But I Don’t Like You
by Barry Kerr and Kristine Gay Family gatherings can be such loving and joyous occasions, full of warm memories and fond affections. The faces, voices and laughter of those most familiar to us can be a great source of comfort, strength and inner security. Such gatherings can also bring to our awareness the less positive…
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The Urge to Merge – Careful what you ask for
by Barry Kerr One of the most common longings that our clients and students report to us is for a fulfilling relationship with a partner. The urge to merge springs naturally from every level of our being; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Humans have been following that urge for as long as we’ve existed. Yet,…