Feeling Fully Alive
Erotic vitality means feeling fully alive. You do this first and foremost for yourself. Feeling vibrant and empowered to live and speak ...
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Pain is often the wake-up call that tips the balance from tolerating unhappiness to making important changes in how you approach life and relate to yourself and others. Whether you’re a partner in a couple, a parent raising kids, a neighbor navigating property lines, a co-worker seeking a promotion, or a friend who feels ghosted by your bestie, there are skills you can practice and develop to turn distance and disagreements into connection. Changing your story begins with accepting challenges, getting curious, SLOWing down, and approach relational moments in new and creative ways.
My name is Alicia Muñoz and I’m a writer, counselor and couples therapist. I have extensive training in Imago Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy.
Over the course of the last two decades, I’ve worked in private clinics, New York City’s Bellevue Hospital and private practice. But my biggest lessons didn’t happen at work or in trainings. They happened in relationships. Like the couples I work with, I’ve struggled to find happiness, fulfillment and peace in a committed romantic relationship. Following a painful divorce in my late twenties, I didn’t have much faith in healthy partnerships—or in my own ability to be in one myself. Two decades later, I know differently.
I hope you’ll use the resources you find on these pages to understand yourself better, connect to your body’s innate wisdom, SLOW down, and bring a sense of curiosity and mindfulness to the unresolved conflicts you experience with your partner as you practice new self-soothing and communication skills.
Sam Levitan Photography
My name is Alicia Muñoz and I’m a therapist and a writer. I have extensive training in Imago Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy. I’ve worked in private clinics, New York City’s Bellevue Hospital and private practice. But my biggest lessons didn’t happen at work or in trainings. They happened in relationships.
I hope you’ll use the resources on these pages to understand yourself better and bring curiosity and an adventurous spirit to the unresolved conflicts in your relationships!
Happy Family is a simple and thought-provoking gift book for you and your family. It will show you the huge gains you can make if you spend 15 minutes per day having fun and sharing meaningful conversations with the people that you love the most, even if they sometimes get on your nerves. The creative, quirky and inspiring questions in this book get family members talking, laughing, and sharing details about their inner and outer lives so they can understand one another better, cultivate patience and empathy, and deepen IRL connection in an age of ubiquitous smartphones.
Whether readers find themselves disconnected on long car rides, regularly eating in silence around a dining room table, or at a loss for words during family gatherings, birthday parties or at holiday events, the 250 questions and activities in this book are unique and thought-provoking enough to get the extroverts listening and the introverts talking.
Even for close, expressive families, this book will offer new angles and ideas on familiar themes, providing tools to help readers create a culture of curiosity and communication around topics that matter most to families, highlighting the shared history, unique roles, and evolving developmental stages of different family members, from thoughtful toddlers to reluctant teenagers and elderly relatives.
Erotic vitality means feeling fully alive. You do this first and foremost for yourself. Feeling vibrant and empowered to live and speak ...
Our tendency to judge ourselves, others, life events, and our partner can block our ability to see the world around ...
Two of the most important, guiding principles in romantic relationships can be summarized as: Couples who play together, stay together ...