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Passionate Partnerships:
A Newsletter About Relationships
Edition Newsletter March 2009
 Welcome to Passionate Partnerships
 
Welcome to the March newsletter - Spring is right around the corner - can you feel it?  What sign of new life is in your back yard?  Have you looked out your window?
 
 Try this month's PASSION tip and put some new life into your relationship - your partner will love you for it.
 
This month's PASSION tip: 
 
Try something different.  Plan a night where each of you dresses up in character, and make love as someone new.  Play act your fantasy this month.  Dont be shy - find a wig with a different hair color than your own.  Or wear an eye patch and play pirate.  Dress up like the person you always wanted to be, or maybe the opposite of the personality that you really are.  Remember the important word here is PLAY.  Have fun, and enjoy something new.  (Its ok to not take yourself too seriously...)
 
(*Disclaimer: this is to officially hold me harmless from any and all costume ideas that poke you in the eye...) 
 
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!!
 
TELESEMINAR on RETURN OF DESIRE; GETTING THE SEX YOU WANT
The Return of Desire-Getting the Sex You Want
A Seven-Session Teleseminar for Health Professionals
With Gina Ogden, PhD and Tammy Nelson, LPC

Return of Desire book coverGetting Sex You Want book cover

Low sexual desire is a number-one reason women-and men-seek relationship counseling. Yet most health professionals lack the detailed training and supervision that might help clients and patients negotiate this complex subject. Tammy Nelson, an Imago therapist, and Gina Ogden, with over three decades of experience as a sexuality therapist and researcher, combine their expertise in a series of practice-oriented teleseminars that offer comprehensive information about sexual desire, encourage questions among participants, and provide case consultation.
 
Recommended Reading:
Gina Ogden:
The Return of Desire: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion (Trumpeter, 2008)
Tammy Nelson:
Getting the Sex You Want: Shed Your Inhibitions and Reach New Heights of Passion Together (Quiver, 2008)
 
AASECT, IMAGO and NASW CEs provided.
 
All sessions meet by telephone from 12:00-1:00 pm.
Upon registration you will be given the number to call
 
Cost: Introductory session FREE - this fee waived if you sign up for the six following sessions ($250). IF you sign up by February 25, take $50 off.
 
Session INTRO, March 25: FREE Introduction: Refocusing the Conversation about Sexual Health and Dysfunction-Sexual Desire is More than Hormones
Session 1, April 1: Accessing the Four Energies that Spark Sexual Desire- Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual
Session 2, April 8: Why Women Say No to Sex-Childbirth, Dominator
Relationships, Abuse, Trauma, Affairs, Sexual Orientation, and Other Dynamics that Go Bump in the Night
Session 3, April 15: How to Ask for the Sex You Want- Emotional Risktaking and Erotic Action
Session 4, April 29: Beyond Physical Sex-Sacred Union, Tantra, Divine Connection
Session 5, May 6: Enjoying a Lifetime of Passion-Encouraging Love, Empathy, and Communication in Long Term Relationships


to register contat tammy @passionatepartnerships.com

 

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TELESEMINAR (part 2): 
 RETURN OF DESIRE; GETTING THE SEX YOU WANT
A Teleseminar for Health Professionals
With Gina Ogden, PhD and Tammy Nelson, LPC
 
Low sexual desire is a number-one reason women-and men-seek relationship counseling. Tammy Nelson, an Imago therapist, and Gina Ogden, a sexuality therapist and researcher, combine their expertise in a series of practice-oriented teleseminars that offer comprehensive information about sexual desire, encourage questions among participants, and provide case consultation.
 AASECT, Imago and NASW CEs provided.
 March 25: FREE Introduction, Sessions: April 1, April 8, April 15, April 29, May 6
 
See THIS NEWSLETTER for more info!


REVIVING SEXUAL PASSION
WORKING WITH LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIPS
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
MARCH 29 2009. 
Sunday 1030 - 330 PM
Washington DC
 
www.psychotherapynetworker.org
 
 
AFFAIRS AND INFIDELITY; RELATIONSHIPS IN CRISIS
Tuesday March 31
Meriden CT
Training for Therapists
Contact www.DandSassociates.net to register
7 1/2 CEs available
  
 
GETTING THE SEX YOU WANT
Ridgefield CT
Workshop for couples or singles
6 to 9 pm
Friday April 10, 2009
Improve the sex and intimacy in your relationship today!
[email protected]
203-438-3007
 


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



Sex Coaching Rose logoTammy is a featured expert on SexCoaching.com!


Check out her bio HERE!

"My partner wants sex every night. I am happy with once a week and feel like he should be too. To be honest, the sex is not that great, and I don't want to hurt his feelings by telling him the truth. By the time the weekend comes around I am not really into it, but I do it for him. I'm not sure what he's complaining about. From frustrated in Franklin

Read Tammy's answer to "Frustrated in Franklin" HERE!

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CONNECTIONS:
 
A   GROUP  FOR  COUPLES

 
With Tammy Nelson, Certified Imago Therapist 
 
Every Wednesday Night
Starting  Wednesday March 25      7:00 pm - 8: 30 pm
Ridgefield CT
 
 Would you like a better connection with your significant other?   Do you need better communication skills?  Do you want to avoid the well worn track to separation or divorce?
 
In a group with other couples, led by a licensed psychotherapist and certified Imago relationship advanced clinician,  learn ways to have conscious connection in long term partnership.
 
Practice relationship skills in a safe and confidential environment......
 
Participants will learn to work through conflict, create meaningful connections and find more joy in their relationship...
 
By pre-registration only:   $100 per couple per week MC/Visa, Check or Cash
             
Contact:  [email protected] or call 203-438-3007

Tammy Nelson MS ATR LADC LPC CIT PhD (c) is a psychotherapist and author in private practice treating women, men and couples.

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 & Sunday
May 2 & 3, 2009

Deposit DUE by April 19- REGISTER TODAY!

 in Ridgefield CT

 To register TODAY contact [email protected] 

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IN THE NEWS!
 
The Record-Review:New York
 Love & Marriage Section Special: February 13 2009
 
In treatment: Staying in love, with a little help
By Eve Marx 
 
Nelson says, "Falling in love is easy.  That's why we call it 'falling' and not 'climbing.'  Falling in love is an emotional bungee jump, an adventurous free fall into the unknown depths of imagined romance.  I'ts only later that we realize, "Oh wait, what was I thinking?"
 
Nelson said that it takes anywhere from 3 to 27 months from the time any intimate relationship begins for the 'fall' to slow down, if not come to a grinding halt.  "That's when people slam into the hard reality of real relationships," Nelson said.  "Our partner doesn't always adore us.  We don't always feel cherished.  Sometimes they annoy us.  And sex isn't as spontaneous or passionate.  Around this time many couples not only feel not in love, but in conflict."
 
Nelson said her specialized couple's therapy focuses on rekindling the romantic and sexual relationship.....
 
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GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN! 

Article in The Republican; MA

Girls Just Want to Have Fun

January 15 2009

Passionate Partners
by Denise Favro Schwartz

 

A chat with Tammy Nelson, couples therapist

Tammy Nelson wants you to get intimate. She has spent years researching the best ways for couples to reach a comfortable and relationship-sustaining level of intimacy and she wants to pass along what she has learned.

Nelson talks about intimacy the way a teenager talks about sex: easily, curiously, convincingly. And she writes about sex. Her recent book is titled "Getting the Sex You Want." Her e-newsletter, "Passionate Partnerships," (www.
passionatepartnerships.com) asks questions like: "Are you turning up the heat on your sex life?"

In an article she wrote for Psychotherapy Networker Magazine, Nelson, a licensed psychotherapist, and a Certified Imago Therapist (a form of relationship therapy which has been featured on "Oprah," Nelson writes on her website) and advanced clinician, says that during her 20 years of couples therapy practice she's found that 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."

That makes sense.

What doesn't make sense, she says, is that so many couples, those who are new in their relationships as well as those who have been together long enough to need some cranking up of the old libido, continue to live unsatisfying sex lives when revving it up is fairly easy to do.

Why is that? 

While doing errands one recent Saturday, Nelson cheerfully answered that question, and more, by phone, while her husband drove.....

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