Dear Conscious Girlfriend, My last three relationships all lasted less than a year. I thought my most recent ex was “the one,” but three months in, she stopped wanting to have sex with me! I know sex dies out after awhile, but three months?! Plus she didn’t work out much, she ate a lot of junk ... Read More
We all know that fighting is hard on our relationships. When we respond to conflict by yelling, storming out, giving each other the “silent treatment,” or trying to stuff our feelings down, we erode the feeling of safety and trust in our partnership – and without safety and trust, intimacy and love ... Read More
Years ago, I was madly in love with a woman I’ll call Sarah. The first time I went to her house, I was won over by the huge unabridged dictionary that had a permanent home on her dining room table. When she took me to a raptor center, and then to see a rainbow out over a field of sunflowers at dusk, ... Read More
At first glance, the five steps of the SCORE Process may seem like a lot to remember. But once you’re familiar with the process, you can go through all the steps inside yourself in less than a minute. The SCORE Process S Step back into yourself C ... Read More
Before I learned to SCORE, I felt pushed and pummeled by my emotions, and I pushed my girlfriends around with those emotions, too. When someone did something that hurt, disappointed or angered me, I rarely recognized that I was triggered, and that the intensity of my emotion originated in another ... Read More
