Teresa McGlashan, MA, MFT https://teresamcglashan.com Tue, 30 Jul 2024 08:28:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://teresamcglashan.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cropped-tree-logo-89-32x32.png Teresa McGlashan, MA, MFT https://teresamcglashan.com 32 32 The Healing Power of Unconditional Love https://teresamcglashan.com/2019/09/10/the-healing-power-of-unconditional-love-2/ Tue, 10 Sep 2019 04:24:47 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=663 What is Unconditional Love? Unconditional Love is about loving regardless of the other person “deserving” it. In contrast to conditional love, which is about earning love through one’s behaviors, when we love unconditionally we offer acceptance, respect and kindness to ourselves or another whether or not we like or desire the behaviors or thoughts/ emotions/ …

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]]> Why It’s Hard to Be a Modern Couple (and what you need to learn to be successful) https://teresamcglashan.com/2018/09/25/why-its-hard-to-be-a-modern-couple-and-what-you-need-to-learn-to-be-successful/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:33:10 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=607 Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing, there is a field. I will meet you there.   –Rumi You may have heard the expression, “you can be happy or you can be right.”  I find that one of the primary blocks to wellbeing in relationship seems to be the longing we have for our partners to …

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]]> Waking Up: Relevant to Psychotherapy? https://teresamcglashan.com/2016/06/10/waking-up-relevant-to-psychotherapy/ Fri, 10 Jun 2016 23:56:35 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=544 What does it mean to “wake up”? What does psychotherapy have to do with waking up and does waking up have anything to do with finding a life purpose? Does it have anything to do with healing? Thanks to people like Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now), Oprah Winfrey (Super Soul Sunday), the Dalai Lama, Adyashanti, …

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]]> Diving Deep: Learning What Lives Below the Surface https://teresamcglashan.com/2015/11/02/diving-deep-learning-what-lives-below-the-surface/ Mon, 02 Nov 2015 10:45:11 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=494 Moving couples from conflict to compassion Over the years, I’ve seen that couples are fighting imaginary foes. Each has their own interpretation of what has happened and only when they reveal to themselves and their partner what is going on below the surface do understanding and compassion become possible. To share an example, my clients …

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]]> Operating Instructions for Wellbeing https://teresamcglashan.com/2015/08/31/operating-instructions-for-wellbeing/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:02:30 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=461 Clarity and Wellbeing are ALWAYS present If you are feeling anxious or depressed, wellbeing may seem entirely hidden. To hear that it is always present but simply veiled may seem like fairy tale. But it is an experientially accurate description that can be tested. Myth:  We believe getting what we want makes us happy. Believing this means we put …

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]]> Speaking Your Partner’s Language of Love https://teresamcglashan.com/2014/03/01/speaking-your-partners-language-of-love/ Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:33:44 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=463 Couples often come to me feeling depleted. The bank account of love has been drained. So one of the important things we do is figure out how to replenish the love bank.  The funny thing is that couples often end up realizing that their partner WAS trying to love them.  It just wasn’t landing. It …

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]]> Learning to Access Well-Being https://teresamcglashan.com/2013/01/05/learning-to-access-well-being/ Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:08:47 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=465 What if we get to choose our perspective? You believe you have problems.  In fact, you may be working with me to solve these problems. There is another point of view that doesn’t see anything as a problem.  This perspective is always available to us. My tip for today is to guide you through a …

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]]> Why Does Couples Therapy Work? https://teresamcglashan.com/2012/11/24/why-does-couples-therapy-work/ Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:25:07 +0000 http://teresamcglashan.com/?p=467 The Path for Couples Made Visible Very few of us have been taught how to look within to see the beliefs and feelings that are driving our behaviors. Even fewer know how to do that with their partner in a way that supports bonding rather than conflict. Couples therapy works because it does three main things: …

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