Relationships of all kinds are powerful forces that touch, move and improve our world.
Enhance your relationships, both personal and other through the powerfull process of connecting dialogue with Imago Relationship Therapy.
Whether you are:
- wanting to enrich a good relationship
- starting a new relationship
- in a difficult relationship and want to resolve conflicts
- near break-up or divorce
- just can’t seem to communicate effectively
- understand why past relationships didn’t work
- why you keep attracting the ‘wrong’ type
- wanting to connect and understand yourself better
- wanting to gain insights into yourself and your reactive behaviour
..then Imago is for you!
Imago Relationship theory explains why the differences which lead to frustrations or conflict in relationships are actually a natural part of what connects us to that person.
When we connect with a person, it is the result of an unconscious match between a mental image of our parents/caretakers, created in childhood (called Imago) and certain character traits of that person.
The definition of Imago (ih-MAH-go) is Latin for “Image”. It comes from the people that first loved us—our dominant male and female care givers and is made up of smells, tastes, feelings, thoughts, experiences and our unconscious.
We take in the positives and negatives from our caregivers and they shape who we become, the types of relationships we have and how we interact with others.
Insights from brain studies and major psychological research can help you look at the story of your relationships in a fresh way. By learning more about ourselves, changing our mindset and learning new techniques of dialogue, we can enhance our relationships on a much deeper and more effective level of communication.
If you are seeking a solution to the trouble in your marriage/partnership or want to enhance your existing relationships, we encourage you to try this. It requires guts, transparency and a willingness to listen and be heard. It requires a softening of the heart and the realization that what seemed unanswerable and unfixable is actually the opposite and right around your corner.
It takes so much more energy to continue with strife, pain and anger than it does to let life unfold, especially with hopefulness and less pain. From today, stand stronger and take a risk on learning to know yourself better.
Be Yourself, No Matter What..
There was a man who saw a scorpion floundering around in the water. He decided to save it by stretching out his finger, but the scorpion stung him. The man still tried to get the scorpion out of the water, but the scorpion stung him again. Another man nearby told him to stop saving the scorpion that kept stinging him. But the man said, “It is the nature of the scorpion to sting. It is my nature to love. Why should I give up my nature to love just because it is the nature of the scorpion to sting?”
LESSON:
Don’t give up loving. Don’t give up your goodness even if the people around you sting you. The greatness comes not when things are always going well for you. But the greatness comes when you’re really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes… Because only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. (Anon)