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Passionate Partnerships:
A Newsletter About Relationships
Edition Newsletter December 2008
 Welcome to Passionate Partnerships
 
Its December...and its going to be a cold winter...are you turning up the heat on your love life?
 
Try this month's suggestion in my new monthly PASSION tip and keep your partnership passionate and alive.
 
This month's PASSION tip: 
 
Tell your partner one thing you appreciate about them as a lover. 
It can be something you appreciate about their body, or how they touch you, or the sound of their whisper when they say "I love you."   
Imagine how nice it will be for the person you care about to hear how sexy they are...
And remember, you always get more of what you appreciate!
 
 
Log onto www.passionatepartnerships.com to become part of the Passionate Partnerships community; message boards let you connect with others, ask questions, and find information.  Make sure to check out our blog entries this month and add an entry to the Passionate Partnerships discussion board today!!       
 
Stay warm!!
 CALENDAR
 
Dec 4 2008 Thursday/
EATING DISORDER TREATMENT 
TRAINING FOR THERAPISTS

Cromwell CT
One day seminar for therapists. CEUs available.
To register go to
www.dandsassociates.net
 
Saturday Jan 24, 2009
GETTING THE SEX YOU WANT 
Ridgefield CT
Workshop for couples or singles
Improve the sex and intimacy in your relationship today!
203-438-3007

 
Saturday Jan 31, 2009 - Sunday Feb 1, 2009 /
GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES

Two day Imago workshop for couples in Ridgefield CT
Please contact the workshop presenter directly to register
[email protected] 203-438-3007

Mar 7, 2009 - Mar 8, 2009/
GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES

Two day Imago workshop for couples in Ridgefield CT
[email protected]
203-438-3007

April/
TELESEMINAR: THE RETURN OF DESIRE;
GETTING THE SEX YOU WANT 
5 week teleseminar with Tammy Nelson and Gina Ogden, both authors, clinicians and researchers on desire discrepancy, erotic exercises and communication for couples and singles. Wednesdays from 3 to 4 pm EST
Email [email protected] to register
 
May 2, 2009 - May 3, 2009/
GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES

Two day Imago workshop for couples in Ridgefield CT
[email protected]
203-438-3007
 
June 2009/
SEX, INTIMACY & CONNECTION
Intro and Advanced Training for Therapists
Vienna Austria
[email protected]
203-438-3007
 
Sept 12& 13/
GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES

Two day Imago workshop for couples Saturday and Sunday in Ridgefield CT
[email protected]
 
 

German translation of Getting the Sex You Want


 NEW RELEASE!!
 
German Translation of
 
"GETTING THE SEX YOU WANT "
 
What an experience - to get the new copies of my book in the mail in German...if only my grandmother were alive to see this...she would, I'm sure, whisper "ach de lieber!" under her breath...
 
For more info or to order copies in German, please go to www.passionatepartnerships.com
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To find out more about how to order a signed copy of Tammy Nelson's book, "Getting the Sex You Want", click here:
 
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Imago

GETTING THE LOVE YOU WANT   
 
WORKSHOP FOR COUPLES
 
 AS SEEN ON OPRAH!

Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is a form of relationship therapy innovated by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D. Dr. Hendrix is the author of the Best Seller "Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples."  To read more about IMAGO Relationship Therapy go to http:www.imagorelationships.com

  
Tammy Nelson will lead couples through this breakthrough process of learning about each other and creating a new way to love.  Tammy is a Certified Imago therapist, a Certified Imago Workshop Presenter, an Imago Advanced Clinician and the author of "Getting the Sex You Want"
 
Coming Saturday January 31
and
Sunday February 1
 in Ridgefield CT

 To register TODAY contact [email protected] 
This Month in Psychotherapy Networker Magazine

psychotherapy networker



The Role of Fantasy in Couples Therapy
By Tammy Nelson
 

Couples who are satisfied with their sex lives are happier than those who aren't, and are likelier to stay together. They describe their relationships as connected, intimate, safe, fun, and affectionate. Conversely, as I've found over 20 years of practice, partners who aren't having good sex are usually more dissatisfied with their relationships overall--more frustrated with each other, more discouraged about their joint future, and likelier to split. 

Many therapists assume that if they help couples improve their relationships, the improvement will naturally lead to a rewarding erotic life. But what if helping couples create a satisfying erotic life is the key to increasing their feelings of companionship and mutual connection, not the other way around?
The age-old question is: how can couples maintain a strong, vital sex life over many years without having boredom undermine eroticism? 

To read the rest of this article, go to http://psychotherapynetworker.com/index.php?category=magazine&sub_cat=articles&p
 

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Has the church caught on to what Tammy Nelson has been saying in her book,

 

"Getting the Sex You Want?"

 

Recently, in the New York Times, this article appeared:

 

Pastor's Advice for Better Marriage: More Sex

 

A weeklong sex challenge for married couples at Fellowship evangelical Church in Grapevine, Tex. 

 

By GRETEL C. KOVACH

Published: November 23, 2008

GRAPEVINE, Tex. - And on the seventh day, there was no rest for married couples. A week after the Rev. Ed Young challenged husbands and wives among his flock of 20,000 to strengthen their unions through Seven Days of Sex, his advice was - keep it going.

Mr. Young, an author, a television host and the pastor of the evangelical Fellowship Church, issued his call for a week of "congregational copulation" among married couples on Nov. 16, while pacing in front of a large bed. Sometimes he reclined on the paisley coverlet while flipping through a Bible, emphasizing his point that it is time for the church to put God back in the bed..... 

For the rest of this article, go to  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/us/24sex.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

 



RE-RELEASE!
 
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 New Harbinger Publications
presents:

What's Eating You?
A workbook for teens with anorexia, bulimia and other eating disorders
 
 by author Tammy Nelson
 
Re-release May 2008

Book Description


In a country where a woman over a size 4 rarely makes it onto the cover of a magazine or onto our TV screens, it's not surprising that eating disorders are so prevalent in girls. Whether it's anorexia, bulimia, or binging, eating disorders are destructive and potentially deadly. What's Eating You? helps teens develop the self-esteem and self-acceptance that so often eludes girls with eating disorders. It teaches them how to overcome perfectionism, understand the role that family patterns may play in their eating disorder, and change negative self-talk about their body. As importantly, What's Eating You? shows teens that happiness comes in many sizes.

This book, released in 2003, is now being re-released with a new cover by New Harbinger Publications.  To order on Amazon, go to:
 
 http://www.amazon.com/Whats-Eating-You-Workbook-Disorders/dp/1572246073/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207087605&sr=8-2ed in 2004
 
To order on New Harbinger Publications go to
http://www.newharbinger.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=621
 
  For more info contact Tammy Nelson at  [email protected]