Happy New Year! May 2019 be your best year ever!
I invite you to set your intentions for 2019. Be sure to include ways to enhance your love relationship, or if single, to find your beloved and create your soulful relationship.
Life can be so magical, right? I used to teach assertiveness training for many years in a college psychology department. As part of my class handouts I wrote an Assertiveness Bill of Rights in the late 1970s, designed to support and affirm our desire and ability to advocate for ourselves. In the 2000s, someone contacted me out of the blue to ask if she could include my Bill of Rights in her book on stress management. Where did she find it?? On the internet, she told me. She devoted a whole chapter to what I wrote. Wow, how fun!
Now I feel called to write a new Bill of Rights, designed for Soulful Couples. You can help me elaborate on the Bill of Rights for Soulful Couples; just email me ruth@soulfulcouples.com with your ideas.
Soulful Couples Bill of Rights
I have the right to be cared for, listened to, cherished, and respected by my beloved partner.
I have the right to quality attention with my partner, including through dates in my home and outside of the house.
I have the right to share the household, parenting, and financial responsibilities with my mate.
I have the right to communicate clearly and assertively so we can get on the same page and understand each other.
I have the right to express my true feelings, desires, needs, and inner wounds... and to be accepted for them.
I have the right to negotiate agreements and solve conflicts peacefully and powerfully.
I have the right to learn, grow, and expand my consciousness with my partner so we can explore new thoughts, activities, and behaviors.
I have the right to experience my spiritual connection on my own and with my beloved.
I have the right to enjoy sexual and sensual pleasure with my lover.
I have the right to enjoy the simple moments as well as the grand experiences.
I have the right to fulfill my life purpose and to support my partner being fulfilled, too.
Date Time With Your Partner:
Take a few moments to contemplate these rights. Read them to each other and discuss. Revise them or write your own additional ones. Which ones resonates with each of you the most? Set your intentions to increase the frequency and intensity of fulfilling these rights. Give attention to each other and reduce your tensions together. Talk it over regularly with your beloved and keep track of your progress as the year unfolds.
Remember we are here to guide and support you! Schedule your call or meeting with us on www.soulfulcouples.com.
And stay tuned for the launch of our brand-new podcast, “Soulful Couples: Give Your Love Life Some Love,” and our upcoming events!
Your Relationship Coach,
Ruth Sharon, M.S.
Coach for Soulful Couples
www.soulfulcouples.com
ruth@soulfulcouples.com
Ruth Sharon is a relationship coach, Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). Her passion is facilitating couples to enhance the vitality of their relationship and make healthy lifestyle choices. Ruth shares her wisdom, compassion and humor with individuals, couples, families, and groups. Ruth and her husband, who have been married since 1970, co-authored Secrets of a Soulful Marriage: Creating and Sustaining a Loving, Sacred Relationship, SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2014. They are delighted to offer coaching for couples and singles, in person and virtually, as well as transformative couples’ retreats, seminars and online courses.
