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Have a life you can be proud of

Which is worse, the divorce or the 2nd failed relationship post divorce?  The more relationships you add on to your CV which have broken down, the less happy you become as you begin to believe that you can't do relationships with anyone.  STOP right there - it's just not true.  What is true though is you've not been choosy enough, you don't respect yourself enough, you don't think you're worth what you really want and you make do, you accept second best - well, no more.

I had a stunning client come to ask for help, she'd been divorced for about 7 years, and had had two relationships which didn't work out.  Now in itself that's ok that they don't but she was beating herself up about it.  So what we started doing with her was getting rid of the emotional baggage she'd been carrying around and weighing her down so that she could lift her head up, and stand as tall as you do at 5'1" (and since I'm that height too, I know how good it feels to think I'm 5'8" sometimes!)

We built in some criteria around which she could work, we set out long, medium and short term goals and built some action plans around them.   She was really needing some encouragement and support to let her explore options, and she did her tasks each week with verve and enthusiasm, coming back with some great stories. 

'Thanks so much for all your help, it has been

fantastic and I would certainly recommend you.'

Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 01:46PM by Registered Commenter[Jackie Walker] in | Comments Off