Getting Started
I help Parents Stay Married and Raise Great Kids…
There are four, involuntary behaviors that currently run your life (and your marriage). The bad news is, you’re only aware of one of them.
It’s as if your marriage is flying straight toward a mountain, but the controls are locked on “auto-pilot.” You have to learn about these instinctive behaviors before you can take over the controls and pilot your own family plane.
I want to teach you how to avoid the crash.
My teaching is based on “Family Systems Theory,” by psychiatrist Murray Bowen, and it has very practical applications to your marriage. I guess you could say I’m offering an Instruction Manual – a kind of “User’s Guide for Families.” My audio coaching series and my private coaching programs are not about teaching you some new, magic “quick fix.” The training I offer is committed to three specific goals:
Goal #1: To better handle any kind of stress your family (or your workplace) throws at you–whether it’s your spouse, your kids, your boss, or your parents;
Goal #2: To build the kind of dependable friendship with your spouse that will sustain your marriage for a lifetime; and
Goal #3: To minimize the baggage you pass on to your kids, so you can give them the best possible launch into their own relationships.
As a minister in the Episcopal Church, I have walked with couples in the joy of marriage and the miracle of childbirth, as well as the crushing pain of divorce or a child in crisis. I want to provide a “User’s Guide for Families” that can serve as preventive medicine, to “inoculate” families against break-up.
For me personally, after growing up on a small farm in Canada, I got my chance to participate in the American Dream when I was admitted to Yale at the age of 18. I lived abroad, free-lanced for an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” and went on to become a minister in the Episcopal Church. My wife Karen and I have been married 9 years, and have two great kids. We often joke that marriage and parenting are the hardest things we’ve ever done, and it’s true. But, it’s also the best thing I’ve ever done.
I’m not the poster boy for Perfect Husband And Father, but I have made tremendous progress in the past six years since I began to study Bowen Family Systems Theory. The psychiatrist Murray Bowen is like the “Jane Goodall” of the human family. His research at the Meninger Clinic, the National Institute of Mental Health, and Georgetown Medical School has yielded a theory that includes four involuntary, predictable behaviors that can be observed in all married couples.
If you share these goals, I have something valuable to offer you. Please click on one of my audio coaching series, either “How to Handle Stress,” or “How to Stay Married and Raise Great Kids.”
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