Meet me in Paris

ROMANCE YOUR LIFE -  Sept 4 – 10

A week of creative, sensual explorations of your secret, sensual, sacred and powerful self in the most romantic city of the world, Paris.

Are you one of 8 adventurous women ready to seize the day and this exquisite opportunity?

Life’s waiting to take you on the most sensuous ride of your life.

What are you waiting for ? It’s now, or next summer.

With this program you will…

Discover Your Inner Lover.

Ignite your Sensuality and Feminine Power.

Learn to romance yourself and become your own best lover.

Embody your feminine sensuality and power more fully.

Enhance your ability to flow with life and take pleasure in simply being you, with you.

Against the magical backdrop of Paris, you will explore your relationship to beauty, body, art, sensuality, sex, power and the sacred. You will discover your particular “lens and filters” on these topics and let your poetic inclinations reveal your inner lover, as you photograph and journal your self into and across the richness of Parisian life and surroundings.

You will get lost to be found. You will push the boundaries of who you (think you) are.

You will build self-trust and sovereignty as you find courage to adventure out, know how to navigate new places while being comfortable on your own skin.

You will be provoked and evoked and discover your inner lover’s secrets, desires and fears.

Your sensuality will come alive as your senses are blast wide-open.

Your soul will soar, connect to your inherent freedom, by letting your feet, nose, gut inclinations and eyes guide you, moment to moment. Without plan, hurry, man, or worry, you will experience both your own sovereignty and how to surrender and let life take you, surprise you, and slowly you will relinquish your long-held grip on your existence (control freaks anyone?).

Needless to say, all of these experiences will not only benefit you and your relationship to life, love, sensual expression, body and beauty. It will of course also make you a much more confident, free and fun lover for the lucky one who gets to swirl in your Parisian Charm. Oh la la…

I say meet ME in Paris but truly, who you will meet in Paris is YOURSELF.

Details …

An intimate group of only 8 women, from America and Europe with creative urges and deep longings of truly being the leaders and lovers in their own lives.

Prior to Paris…

We begin the program by introducing and opening up the playing field and with inspiration and creative prompts get familiar with your secret, sensual, sacred and sovereign self. We’ll connect via group calls and online.

One week in Paris…

It will be a sensory experience of thematic visits to selected sites, inspiring and stimulating events, and creative exploration. Each day begins with a circle to set the tone and theme of the day, and then inspiration and creative prompts are provide for your adventures of discovery. We will both be out together and leave plenty of time for you to discover your OWN Paris.

Paris Photo Play…

We bookend your journey with Sensual Photo Shoot @ lush Parisian location by yours truly. Think beautiful suite, free standing bathtub with lions feet, sexy outfits and soulful play, and of course, champagne to celebrate your arrival … in your self.

Three weeks upon return…

We connect for a re-cap group call, to celebrate, share discoveries and find ways to sustain this new-found relationship to ourselves.

Let us illuminate and liberate your fierce and feminine soul.

Let us pay tribute to your newly found inner love(r).

Read about my latest Paris Adventures >>> here @ my Divinely Furious Blog

Special Kick-Off Fee: $1900

Fee includes:

- One week with program in Paris

- Preliminary preparation calls, video, and creative prompt

- Photo Shoot with professional makeup at beautiful Parisian hotel suite

- Paris assistance by local liaison.

- Sensual yoga.

-  My undying dedication, guidance, inspiration and presence for your entire journey and transformation. I look forward to be your muse and sacred ally.

Bonus: take your journey deeper with my newest digital freedom program ($250 value)

EXCLUDED are airfare, hotel (suggested), meals, entrances and shopping sprees. We will recommend hotel / accommodation and reserve rooms you pay yourself. Expect to be spending about $4600+.

**** SIGN UP BY AUGUST 4th ****

Paris is VERY popular and busy. Important to book early for reasonable prices on flights/hotel.

With only 8 seats in the Meet Me in Paris Train get yours now.

Give yourself this chance to engage with your life in a whole new way.

Email me for more information: lone@lolosboudoir.com

Danish Delights, Scottish Divas, British Bombshells, French Femme Fatales.

Want your very own Paris Photo Adventure?

I will be staying a few days extra in Paris, so even if you do not wish to partake in this lush, creative Romance Your Life exploration …. you still have the chance to be photographed.

Meet me in Paris Shoot $1600 – includes hotel suite, make up and an a artisan silk box with your 10 favorite photos matted for display.

Contact me for more information and dates.

Ten Steps to Life ?

Bigger, bolder, better. Get Your Glow On. Magnetize Your Lover. Billionize Your Life. Find Your Mojo. Get Your Groove On. Have your Online Queen-dom. Claim Your Power. Own Your Voice. Live a Legendary Life. Get Turned On. Pleasurize Your Work. Sizzle Your Shakti. Shimmer Your Glimmer.

Have it All. In ten steps.

Latest Blog on Divinely Furious >>>>

http://divinelyfurious.com/ten-steps-to-life/

Portals to Freedom

This fall, I am launching a digital Journey and Course I currently call Portals to Freedom. I am deep in production of this – it’s coming straight out of my heart and gut – and I’m very excited to finally having found a way of using the interent to share more widely with you ‘everything’ I’ve learnt, experienced and find inspiring.
Not only do I ‘get naked’ with you, but it offers an epic, creative, juicy and revealing journey of discovery for you.
Learn more @ Journey with Me section: Portals to Freedom.

Beauty always rises from the rubble of life.

When Writing is Better than Therapy…

If I should call this summer anything it’d be the summer of deep excavating and random acts of sobbing.

I’ve just completed the third draft my memoir, From Kailas to Kali. It’s a story about my climbing inner and outer mountains, quite literally facing demons while searching for truth and personal power. It’s the classic heroine’s journey, of seeking it in all the wrong places and outside of self, but ultimately having to find it closer to home, through the body and wounds, and getting really intimate and honest with self in the underworld. There I happen to meet the great Hindu deity Kali… and if you’re familiar with her, you’ll know that she cuts away any ego, attachment, fear and illusion that stands in the way of truth and freedom. My ‘awakening’ took a journey to the world’s most sacred mountain in Tibet, over marriage in San Francisco, and into the arms of the goddess who ultimately helped tear off my masks, drive me out of hiding and into true intimacy with my own sovereignty. Weeew!

I’ve lived with this project for more than eight years. The first draft I wrote was a travelogue of the journey to the sacred Mount Kailas in Tibet. That book won an award, yet didn’t sell, and it didn’t actually feel like the book that lived in my belly. A couple of years later I was again working on the book, going deeper more complex into the story of what was going on at that mountain and why that story haunted me so, but I still couldn’t finish it. I didn’t have the courage to be honest enough with myself. And I wasn’t ready to take full responsibility for my truth, because, if I did, it might have meant big changes — such as leaving my marriage. Ironically, when I divorced a few years ago, I finally knew — it was time to write the real story.

As with personal, spiritual evolution, so with a book — it has its own incubation time, and I’ve had to learn to trust the process and timing rather than push it. To write the book in my belly, I had to live more life to gain perspective and tell the truth. Though, I had no idea that I was writing myself out of grief and into power. I imagine this is what often happens for artists regardless of what medium we work in: we create of the compost of our lived experiences and that which haunts us to the core of our beings.

My compost was a bunch of failures and fear of facing reality. It hasn’t been easy nor particularly pretty. Within minutes I would sob over the memory of some difficult moment in my marriage to being in awe of the words that come out of me just so. In the emotionality, grace did seep in — when I finally committed to the process and dug through all of my compost this summer to finish the book, life took on a whole other dimension. Everything around me began to feed into the writing. There was no more separation between the story, the creative process, and what was going on in my life. I kept attracting just the right comment from someone or the right situation to catalyze a new layer of understanding…

Like how the man, who is integral to my story, showed up and I realized that I was finally ready to tell him about my process of becoming honest and our challenges had been the catalyst for my stepping fully into my power as who I am. Or this beautiful lover I met who broke open my heart with his music and revealed to me how deep the Himalayas live in my blood and bones. Or how this friend kept making me feel obliged to save her and I finally stepped back and said, no thanks, not my job. Becoming honest on the page helped me be more honest in me in my daily life. And set boundaries. And ask for what I need. And complete things that I no longer wish to drag with me.

Stepping into my truth

I’ve learned that when I fully immerse myself in the presence of my life, there truly is no separation between our inside and outside. If you really pay attention to the qualities of thoughts and feelings and what’s happening around you — synchronicities, coincidences, repetitions, lessons — notice how everything feeds into each other in one beautiful co-creative mess. To be in this awareness does not require a creative project like a book, it can simply be the active creating of your life. Try it. It makes life rich and you feel lusciously alive.

In writing a book about stepping into my truth and personal power, this is what I’m being asked, right? Better than therapy, one might say. Of course resistance keeps poking its ugly head out, teasing me to see if I’m willing to let go of more unhealthy patterns around truth and power. Tender, grateful, I keep asking to move through it and learn the lessons rapidly. Because, for the first time in my life, my desire to overcome these obstacles that hold me back has become stronger than my fear of it. It is no longer an option to hold back.

To be truly yourself you have to be willing to risk being judged, disappoint, make a fool of yourself, put out a lousy book, stand up to people’s projections, and more. Someone recently asked me, “Are you willing to do this?” YES. Full-hearted yes.

Dear sisters (and brothers), now I ask you: Are you willing to risk being judged and disappoint others to be fully yourself? What compost might you rise from and become the beautiful flower you are?

Gosh. I could be a preacher, couldn’t I? A sexy rebel priestess preacher, of course, with love and freedom at the heart of my words. I want this for me. I want this for you.

Willing,

Lone

I blog for Owningpink.com and this piece was first published there.

Unraveling

Unraveling

Unravel, unravel, unravel. I am unraveling yet again. Everything feels off, nothing feels right, yet I can’t point my finger to what it is. It makes me afraid.

Afraid of letting go of a last tight grip on what I believed to be true, to be the way, to be the me. I am scared because I don’t know what’s beyond the unraveling. Mostly it feels like I’m outgrowing my clothes, literally and figuratively, and the storefront I keep (my business) no longer fits as neatly and sweetly. Clearly something has shifted inside, and therefore, something gotta shift on the outside. But what?

I entertain all options. Close shop. Move away. Start over. Then self-loathing enters. What’s wrong with you? You should have it together by now? Are you just a change-junkie? Frustration breathes down my neck. And there I hang, in the transition time, as if on the edge of a cliff. My arms are getting more and more fatigued, I am loosing my grip, and eventually there’s no other way than to let go. To stop trying to hold on, figure out, control, plan it out. There’s only the free fall into the abyss of not knowing.

In the free fall, I feel freedom again. Why? Because left is only trust and the possibility of truth.

The inevitability of change

You’ve all been there, one way or another. We know that change is inevitable. We feel it in our bodies. We live it day and night. We sense it in the seasons. I consider myself an expert at change, and truth be told, I even get high on change, yet, sometimes it catches me by surprise.

Consider the words: Change. Revolution. Upheaval. Unraveling. Metamorphosis. Transformation. These words have weight and carry promises. They are alive, active, you can almost sense the volatile atmosphere and the flux between the outer circumstances and the momentary loss of inner equilibrium. Mirroring the natural world, we humans share an universal drive and desire towards change, I think, because we feel alive when we are moved from one place to another, from one perspective to another, from one leash on life to another. The possibility of who we can become, who we might discover, the betterment, the hope of being and living more fully. The desire to know and live who we are at heart.

Little to do but wait

But what about the quiet changes that sneaks up on you, slowly, slyly, from the inside? Not the dramatic, at times forced, changes stirred by new love, divorce, job loss, death or disease, but the slow nagging at your heart and soul, the inaudible whisper in your ear, that things just aren’t the same any more.

This is a new kind of change for me. The dramatic changes I’ve lived, fully, and they required much doing and getting on with a new life track. This time, I feel there’s little I can do but wait. And listen. In the wake of the me in-becoming, I struggle to not run away, make a strategic plan or find the next self help remedy to help me avoid this rollercoaster ride. Instead I sit. I cry. I journal. I dance. I speak with kindred spirits.

Meanwhile, my surrender deepens. I allow the full intensity of fears and frustrations to overtake me, and in it, I marvel at how tightly I’ve held on, it seems, for ages. To what? Suddenly its unimportant. Because in my nakedness I’m discovering spaciousness in my heart and trust in my soul. There is no turning back.

Quietly transforming,
Lone

Sexy Ladies in Strange Places

These days, a few of my favorite black and white photographs adorn the village-scape of Vevey, Switzerland in surprising ways. Peter Scholl kindly, courageously asked if he could show a couple of my photos as posters in his town as part of an ongoing exhibit. I proudly agreed. And here they are! I can only imagine what the locals say to each other – Oh, la la!

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More to Miami than Miami Vice

INS_MIAMI_billboard2_1.jpgAs the winner of the “Celebration of Inspiration” New Years Contest by FlavorPill & Le Meridian, they sent me on an adventure to Miami with a camera, a notebook and a lively program. Want to come along?
Growing up in Denmark in the 70s and 80s my idea of America was formed by movies and TV shows like John Wayne films, the Little House on the Prairie, Dynasty and Miami Vice. After spending the past nine years in San Francisco my impressions of America have of course become more nuanced, however, when thinking of Miami, Don Johnson, tanned, gold-chained and self-assured behind the steering wheel of his vulgar speedboat, appears on my inner screen. As does Miss Wet T-shirt contests, drunken frat boys on spring break, misplaced Cubans and hurricanes. Continue reading

Forget Perfect

Huffington Post Living Blog January 2008.


Introduction by Amy Swift, Editor-in-Chief, Ladies Who Launch: What do you think the genesis of the New Years Resolution is? Is it a manufactured holiday sponsored by some mysterious entity that stands to profit from A) our self-loathing, which in turn creates, B) consumer-driven action to fix said “loathed” state? Wouldn’t it be great to face January 1st with a sense of “gosh, it’s great to be me! Whatever I do over the next 364 days will be just perfect.” Or is that just too sane for our hard-driving, self-improvement-serious ethics. Ladies Who Launch member Lone Schneider reveals her own battles with perfection, which I’m guessing are pretty universal. Her piece made me feel almost okay about going to Fiji with no hint of spray tan, two months shy of a bikini wax and three-year old bathing suits from Target. Thanks, Lone! Amy Swift.

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The Project is Called Love

nova_1.jpgProjektet kaldes kærlighed

Lone Mørch Schneider besøger kvinden bag Det Danske Imago Institut for at finde ud af, hvad man gør, når ens parforhold er gået i hårdknude.

Det er vores brullypsdag, og vi er i bilen på vej hjem fra et spa-ophold. De sidste par måneder har jeg efterspurgt justeringer og fælles vision for vort forhold, men min mand Christian har trukket sig, og jeg kan næsten ikke holde det ud mere. Med rystende stemme spørger jeg, hvad han tænker om os på vores syvende bryllupsdag.

“At vort ægteskab er en joke,” udbryder Christian irriteret.

Mit hjerte falder ned i maven: “Vi blev sgu da gift, fordi vi ville være sammen.”

Med et ryk i rettet overhaler Christian, imens han siger: “Vi skulle have lært hinanden bedre at kende inden.”

“Intentionerne var da gode nok,” siger jeg til de passerende biler og synes sikkerhedsselen strammer. Den fine forbindelse, der var mellem os i begyndelsen, hvor er den blevet af?

Christian siger noget om, at vi slet ikke passer sammen, at han har fejlet, men jeg kan ikke høre, hvad han siger.

Underlig frossen indeni udgyder jeg diverse forbandelser og slutter med at sige, at nu kan vi dårligt synke dybere, og det kan han kun give mig ret i. Den famøse syv-års-krise har sat ind for fuldt sejl.

I skrivende stund, forsøger vi hver for sig at finde en løsning.En mandag aften ringer jeg på døren til psykolog Kirsten Seidenfaden. Selvom hun skal interviewes om sit arbejde som parterapeut – og ikke psykoanalysere mig – så håber jeg alligevel, at hun har nøglen til hårdknuden i mit forhold.

Smilende, med et stort sjal slænget omkring sig, byder hun mig inden for i den lune lejlighed. Kort, sølvgråt hår indrammer hendes levende ansigt, og hun ser på mig med nysgerrige øjne. Vi sætter os med varm te og biscotti. Jeg har så meget jeg vil spørge om, mest af alt om der er håb for Christian og jeg, eller om vi er dømt til at bidrage til den voksende skilsmisse-statistik.

Kirsten Seidenfaden er helt specielt. Sammen med sin mand, psykolog Piet Draiby, har hun oprettet Det Danske Imago Institut. I 1997 blev Kirsten Seidenfaden opmærksom på Imago-tænkningen, som er udviklet i USA, de etablerede instituttet, og de seneste syv år er i omegnen af 800 par kommet for at lære at kommunikere, så kærligheden ikke visner. nova_3.jpgSnak med omtanke. Helt centralt i tankegangen er dialogen med partneren – der skal lyttes og formidles, at vi godt forstår hinanden.

Til forskel fra andre terapi-former, hvor man over tid opbygger et forhold til psykologen, som man spiller bold op ad, så foregår kommunikationen her mellem mand og kone.”Min opgave er at støtte en proces, ikke styrer, hvad parret taler om,” siger Kirsten Seidenfaden.På den måde bliver klienter og terapeut ligeværdige.

Filosofien er, at alle mennesker er i samme båd: Parforhold er vanskelige for alle, og kommunikation kræver øvelse – hvad enten du er psykolog, ingeniør eller skuespiller.

Jeg fortæller Kirsten Seidenfaden om vores syv-års-krise, hvordan jeg har efterspurgte mere intimitet og dybde og ønsket at aflive gamle konflikter og begynde på en frisk, og hvordan Christian har reageret ved at trække sig og tvivle på, om vi overhovedet passer sammen.

“Der er jo faser i et forhold,” siger Kirsten: Hun ridser op:Efter forelskelsen kommer magtkampen, hvor du og din mand kæmper for at være jer selv og få den anden til at ændre sig. Når du erkender, at magtkampen ikke længere giver mening, så åbner døren sig til et bevidst forhold. Men forholdet forandrer sig alene, når du og din mand føler sig trygge nok til at udtrykke tanker og følelser. Og tryghed opnår du ved at anerkende den anden, ikke ved at kritisere.

Jeg tænker på alle de gange mine snakke med Christian er endt med, at vi kaster rundt med skylden og slet ikke kan høre hvad, vi siger til hinanden.Og alle de gange jeg har taget, hvad Christian siger, personligt – som en bekræftigelse på, at jeg ikke er god nok.

nova_2_1.jpg“Bag enhver kritik i et parforhold ligger en frustration, og bag enhver frustration en længsel, der er et uforløst behov fra barndommen. Der er i forholdet mellem barn og voksen, at vi udvikler vores evne til at knytte os til andre og lærer strategier for, hvordan vi indgår i nære relationer i voksenlivet. Faktisk vælger vi ubevidst partnere, som på godt og ondt minder om vores forældre,” siger Kirsten Seidenfaden.

Teorien er, at vi drømmer om, at vores partner nu skal gives os det mor eller far ikke kunne finde ud af – med andre ord, vi håber på, at parforholdet er livets anden chance for at blive hele mennesker uden sårede følelser.

Christians mor flasher forbi mine øjne: Er jeg mon lige så dramatiske og kritisk som hende? Omvendt, har Christian lige så svært ved at udtrykke sine følelser som min far eller egne forældre for den sag skyld?

“Ironisk nok længtes begge parter ofte efter det samme, men forsøger at opnå det med helt forskellige strategier,” siger Kirsten Seidenfaden.

Jeg griner. Kan Kirsten måske se det for sig: Mig der jeg føler og snakker en masse for at få kærlighed, og Christian, der lukker af i kærlighedens navn?

Kirsten forklarer om to personlighedstyper: Den ene overdriver følelser og behov, er afhængig af andre, klæber og er overdriven generøs, har uklare grænser. Den anden type er indadvendt, forklejner følelser, fornægter afhængighed og behov, tilbageholder følelser og tanker, sætter stive grænser og har tendens til at handle tvangsmæssigt og dominere andre.

Det lyder uværgerligt som tro kopier af Christian og jeg. Det er på en gang trist og befriende, at vi er så forudsigelige, og normale.nova_5.jpgForskellighed er ufarligt.

“Hvis vi nu kom til dig, hvordan skulle vi så gribe det an,” spørger jeg.

Kirsten Seidenfaden forklarer, at hun ville spørge mig, hvad jeg tror, Christian synes er anstrengende ved at leve sammen med mig, og omvendt. Til sidst vil vi snakke om en konkret frustration – på den måde, hvor den, der lytter, parkerer sin egen virkelighed hjemme for at kunne være tilstede og forstå, hvad den, der fortæller siger hun.

Jeg krummer tæer ved tanken om alle de gange, jeg har sagt til Christian: ‘Jeg forstår, hvad du siger, men…’Men hører ikke hjemme i den bevidste samtale. Det gør fortolkningen og gode råd heller ikke, i stedet handler det om at anerkende hinanden og gøre det så trygt, at det bliver muligt at åbne op og være sårbare. Som hun siger, man får ikke nærhed ved at få ret.

Kirsten Seiden fortæller, om den lille, røde kinesiske bro: Med den bevidste dialog går vi over broen for at besøge den andens virkelighed. Der ligger en masse styrke og energi i forskellighederne – dem skal vi være nysgerrige efter og drage fordele af. Når folk vokser fra hinanden, er det fordi slår hinanden i hovedet med forskellighederne i stedet for at værdsætte dem. Så det er slet ikke så farligt at være forskellige. I mange år har jeg holdt krampagtigt fast i illusionen om vort fantastiske liv, holdt konflikterne hen, men jeg skal åbenbart ikke være bange for forskelligheder og konflikter.

Igen drager Kirsten Seidenfaden en parallel til Kina: krise betyder også mulighed på kinesisk. Derfor er en krise i virkeligheden et tegn på, at et forhold er i live, at der er vækst, som prøver at bryde igennem.Værsgo en dobbeltgave.

En ægteskabsforsker har fundet ud af, at 70 procent af alle konflikter i et parforhold ikke kan løses. Det vigtigste, når det drejer sig om chancen for at nå guldbrudealderen sammen, er evnen til at håndtere konflikter. Når et par tager fat i frustrationerne, så er det ikke kun den frustrerede, der har mulighed for at opnå større indsigt, når luften tages af frustrationen. Ved at indleve sig i den andens virkelighed, strække sig for at hjælpe og dække vedkommendes behov, har den lyttende partner også mulighed for at hele gamle sår.

Mit spørgende udtryk får Kirsten til at give et eksempel fra sit eget forhold:”Piet kører altid for stærkt, og jeg skælder enten ud eller trækker mig surmulende ind i mig selv. Igennem dialog fandt vi ud af, at jeg reagerede sådan, fordi jeg var bange på samme måde som da min far altid kørte stærkt, når han kørte mig i børnehaven. Og ved, at Piet forstod det og indvilligede i at tage af sted 15 minutter tidligere, når vi skal noget sammen, så undgik han også at få skæld ud af mig – noget han hader på grund af den måde, han blev behandlet på som barn.nova_5_citat.jpg

Altså læren er, at jeg skal imødekomme Christians behov, selvom det ofte betyder, at jeg skal strække sig ud over det, jeg har lyst til, eller tror jeg kan klare – gør jeg det alligevel, så får jeg også opfyldt nogle af mine egne behov.Kirsten nikker.Hvad kan Christian gøre for at imødekomme de behov, der gemmer sig bag mine frustrationer.

Jeg fyldes af forundring: det virker pludselig ganske indlysende at skulle udtrykke det, jeg gerne vil have i stedet for at kritisere. Hvorfor har jeg ikke gjort det noget før?’Jamen kan den bevidste dialog virkelig ændrer på opførslen’, spørger jeg – velvidende, at et er at vide, noget andet er at praktisere.

Kirsten læner sig ind over bordet af bare entusiasme: “Det er nu bevist, at hjernen laver nye hjernebaner gennem hele livet, og derfor er det muligt at forandre ens vaner og adfærd. Hun giver et eksempel: Frem for at reagere, da Piet fornyeligt tilstod en fejl, møder hun ham som barnet, der er bange for at få skældud. Hun siger helt automatisk og fra hjertet, at det vel nok er synd for ham, og hvor må det ha’ været svært at indrømme. Kirsten ser stolt ud. Altså, man kan lære nye måde at omgås hinanden på.

“Det er så enkelt og så svært. Der er intet quick-fix,” siger Kirsten Seidenfaden.

—-Lone Mørch Schneider er fotograf og indehaver af fotoatelier Lolos Boudoir, der har specialiseret sig i at tage fotos af kvinder.

Boks information: Kirsten giver fem gode råd til par:

1. Skab tryghed. Fokuser på det, der allerede fungerer og er godt ved jeres forhold.

2. Alle har ret til deres syn på verden, der er ikke noget, der er rigtigt eller forkert. Gå på besøg i hinandens virkeligheder med respekt og nysgerrighed.

3. Se både det indre barn og den voksne i din partner, som begge har uopfyldte behov og længsler og udvikl din evne til empati.

4. Konflikt er vækst, der prøver at bryde igennem. Forstå, at den frustration din partner udløser i dig, tager afsæt i et uopfyldt behov eller en længsel fra din barndom. Hvis I arbejder med konflikten, og strækker jer for at imødekomme hinandens behov, så har I begge mulighed for at forandre jer. I stedet for at kritisere, fokuser på det du kunne ønske dig i stedet.

5. Drøm jeres største drøm sammen.

Om Kirsten SeidenfadenPsykolog Kirsten Seidenfaden har netop holdt 60-års fødselsdag. I den anledning lavede hun en nostalgitavle over sit liv:- Hun var aktiv i ungdomsoprøret og kvindefrigørelsen.- I 1976 blev hun uddannet til klinisk psykolog. Siden har hun arbejdet som terapeut, supervisor, underviser og konsulent i forskellige offentlige og private organisationer.- I 1997 blev hun opmærksom på Imago-tænkningen, som er udviklet i USA af Harville Hendrix og Helen Lakelly Hunt og åbnede Det Danske Imago Institut.- Igennem de sidste syv år har Kirsten Seidenfaden og hendes mand trænet 800 par på instituttet.

Accidental Pilgrim

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Reaching 28,028 feet above the farwestern Tibetan plateau, Mount Kailas touches the heavens like a jewel from a sea of sand and rock, assured in her divinity. For millennia, pilgrims from all over central Asia have journeyed to Mont Kailas to celebrate Buddha’s birth, death and enlightenment and do the ritual thirty-two-mile circumambulation of the mountain that is said to erase the sins of a lifetime.  Continue reading

Hitched by Elvis

Winner of Writers Digest Honorary Mention Award for personal essay.no_pictures“Here. Your bouquet.” The young woman hands me a meager bouquet of short-stemmed red roses. “When the music starts, you go in there.” Smiling, she points toward the arched doorway behind me. Christian is already in there, waiting for me. Excitement and champagne bubbles mix, racing through my veins to the beat of an utterly confused heart. I can’t believe we are doing this.  Continue reading

The Accidental Pilgrim

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Is the 2002 Tanenbaum Award in Nonfiction winner in recognition of her outstanding travel narrative, The Accidental Pilgrim.The citation for The Accidental Pilgrim reads:”A social comedy with some of the wit and brio of Mary McCarthy or Alison Lurie, The Accidental Pilgrim explores what happens when East meets West in a spectacular clash. A young European woman wrangles a party of Western egos into one of the high Asian holy places, and grace seeps in only “accidentally.” At times humorous, at times enlightening, at times poetic, this narrative takes readers on an unforgettable journey.”