In year two and three of my relationship, my partner and I were stuck. The same painful dynamics, over and over. There were moments (more than once) where one or both of us was thinking: maybe this just isn't going to work.
The thing that made it so hard is that we really loved each other. Love wasn't solving the problem. Love was just making it more painful to consider walking away.
What began to shift is when we realized: we weren't failing because we were wrong for each other. We were failing because we were missing information. Skills we were never taught by our parents, in school, anywhere.
When we got that information (really got it, not just intellectually but in practice) everything changed. We could finally turn toward each other instead of away. We understood what was driving the negative cycles between us and why we had found it so hard to change in the past.
The Art of Repair program is filled with tools and insights that allowed us to shift our perspective from what wasn't working into an entirely new attitude and optimism about our future together.
My work is grounded in Imago Relationship Therapy, Gottman research, Polyvagal Theory and attachment science. This course is the most practical, immediately actionable version of that work I've ever built.