Celebrating Couples*
"Tapping into the Love Line"

The demands of our everyday living can sometimes pull us away from the very things that we find joy, happiness, and self-fulfillment; this includes the person with whom we share our lives, our spouse or intimate partner.  Through the program Tapping into the Love Line, Tom helps us identify the values, beliefs, and needs that are important to us regarding intimacy, courtship, and marriage and how our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors influence the quality of our most personal relationships.  Using the metaphor of water like love, Tom guides us in staying tapped into the very things we enjoy in our partnerships.  In a humorous and inspiring presentation, Tom shares stories that we can relate to in facing the challenges of marriage and other intimate relationships.  He shows us that even during stormy seasons in our relationship we can enhance the positive feelings and loving bond between us and our spouse or partner.  Tom takes us on a journey to explore the necessity of reciprocity in all relationships, but particularly with our spouses and intimate partners.

Includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Continuously find joy, happiness, passion, and a deeper connection within our loving relationships even in the face of challenges.   
• Learn how to apply the lifestyle management framework CRUTCHES/RUTH regularly in our everyday living to enhance the quality of our intimate partnership
• Become acquainted with our earliest relationships and how they influence our relationships today
• Recognize how we react to circumstances and what we can do when our internal expectations do not meet our external reality
• Realize what we are focusing on and giving power and authority to in our relationship
• Explore the powerful influence of intimate relationships and how they can effect the direction of our lives in healthy and unhealthy ways using love as a gauge
• Learn how to identify relational storm patterns and provide the necessary space and understanding for healing and support
• Explore how love is like water 
• Understand the cycle of stress and how it impacts life's outcomes and the relationships with one's self and others
• The myth of oneness   
• Realize the essence of love in reciprocity and mutuality, "The Boomerang Effect"
• Exercise authenticity and integrity to promote permanent solutions to personal conflicts
• Substitute negative and self-destructive "crutches" with empowering and supportive "crutches"
• Learn how to encouragement and empowerment
• 7 E's of Reciprocated Relationship Qualities (Empowerment, Encouragement, Enlightenment, Environment, Entertainment, Education, and Exchange) 

*Incorporates components of the Lifestyle and Stress Management program.