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Your Life Leaves Clues
I met Heather at a time when she felt unappreciated at work and most of time felt that her boss favoured her colleagues and ignored her. From the water cooler to the lunchroom to her office she spent most of the day feeling left out out the loop. Her work environment...
Before You Were Born: How your experiences in the womb and early childhood are affecting your life today
I will never forget how surprised I felt when I heard the news that I was expecting twins. The pregnancy was our first surprise, - and now: twins! After settling into our new reality, the excitement began and so did the planning. Within a couple of weeks, my...
How The Stories in Your Family Affect Your Love Life
“He walks through life as if he’s under a black cloud. When he comes home from work, the whole house feels heavier. And I can never get him to spend any money on anything besides essentials.” Monica’s list of complaints about the man with whom she shares her life -...
Rebuilding Love After An Affair
Holly sends in her question to The Family Imprint show asking what to do after discovering her husband's affair. She wants to rebuild trust and get to an even stronger place in her marriage after infidelity.
What You Need to Know to Change Your Child’s Behaviour
Before we can hope to change our children’s behavior, its helpful to be aware of why children respond to challenges the way they do.
The Family Imprint Show: The Strain of Unresolved Family Relationships
The effects of stress that unresolved family relationships take on a person, the stress that often runs in the background. What's Left Unsaid in Your Family can be like a Slow Leak in your Tires.
3 Questions Your Marriage Counselor Forgot To Ask
Are Your In-laws more like the Outlaws ?
Real Life Tips for Resolving Stress with my Special Guest Shula
Misbehaviour or Stressed Behaviour ?
On the Family Imprint Show: Is It Really Misbehavior or Is It Stress-Behavior ? What if we started to look at how our kids are reacting to life as stressed behavior? What are they trying to tell us with how they're reacting? With how they're responding to life?
Why I never “battled” cancer
written by Jivan Dios Galfvensjö "Cancer didn’t just happen to me. It took time. I remember something within me trying to talk to me long before it decided to go it’s own way and become cancer. It yelled and screamed. It made me uncomfortable. It made me sad. It cried...
Inherited Family Patterns Affect Relationships
Escape the Stress that Runs in the Background
She woke up feeling hazy with a lingering flash of hope that it had all been a dream ... when all the ugly details came flooding in - the hurtful things he had said, what that triggered in her and her infuriated responses to it all. Its as if they each stepped into...
World Peace … One Family at a Time
You can’t turn on the News without questioning what is happening here? How can people treat each other this way? Even if you intentionally avoid the News, you still catch glimpses of current events on a radio blurb or something your scroll by on social media or even...
The Secrets of Fertility Over 35
She sat down in my office as if the weight of the world was on her shoulders. In a quiet tone of voice, she began our session “we’ve been trying for almost 6 years now. I don’t know how much I’ve got left to keep going. Our marriage is strained, our financial...
The Power of Our Inner Images
The images we hold inside guide our lives. If we have the image of feeling like we belong, we feel safe and loved ~ its as though life supports our expectations. Alternatively, if we hold inner images of loss, regret, anger or blame, these emotions tend to become a...
The Family Inheritance
What images come to mind when you hear the words Family Inheritance? You may imagine loved ones gathered together to hear the reading of a will. Yet our family inheritance is something that we are born with instead of something we wait to receive when someone in our...
Our Children’s Roots
A troubled mother called my office one day wanting to know if I could help her anxious teenage son. Her primary complaint was that he recently quit school, stayed in his room playing video games all day and wasn't engaged in looking for a part-time job. With a...
How to Know if IT Will Work Before Your Heart Takes the Leap
What if in the very early stages of connecting with someone you are attracted to, you could find out the chances of that relationship succeeding? Before you get too invested. Before you get your heart broken … again. Once you can discover what guides you at the...
Suzi Tucker
Listen here for this fantastic conversation with Suzi Tucker, one of North America's top Family Constellation Facilitators. Suzi became interested in the work of Bert Hellinger while Editor-in-Chief of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Publishers. Following an active career...
Dr. Engfield
What do your family relationships have to do with your well being? Listen to the interview with Dr. Marc Engfield, a medical doctor combining traditional & alternative approaches to hormone challenges. Dr Engfield is an Ottawa physician with a blog that...
Guest Appearance on Dr. Carri Drzyzga’s program The Functional Medicine Doc
Listen Here In this episode of The Functional Medicine Radio Show, Dr. Carri’s special guest Johanna Lynn discusses the habits and patterns that are keeping you stuck. Johanna is an expert in the Family Constellation approach – a living science that explores the...
The Heart of Addiction
Addiction is often the end point of a life experience of difficulty, often with beginnings that originate in childhood. Often when we hear the word - ADDICTION - right away we think about problems with drugs or alcohol. Perhaps even gambling or smoking....
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