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Coaching Energy Management to Maximize Marriage by Jeff and Jill Williams

Do you realize that the best aphrodisiacs in the world are free? As Marriage Coaches we regularly prescribe them for couples struggling with emotional and physical intimacy. What are they?
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Marriage Coaching: It’s About More Than Preserving the Union by Jeff and Jill Williams

Saving marriages is one thing, but helping couples to live in a pleasurable and purposeful relationship is another. Can marriage be about more than commitment, endurance and perseverance? Can more couples experience more pleasure, joy, purpose and fulfillment? YES...
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Marriage Coaching Tips: Three Essential Questions to Ask Couples by Jeff and Jill Williams

You’ve completed your introduction and orientation session with a couple. The couple to be coached is satisfied with their understanding of the process, and they think it might be helpful. Now What? It is essential to get answers to three questions as soon as possible...
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Coaching Communication in Marriage Relationships by Jeff and Jill Williams

It is the number one request of couples seeking Marriage Coaching: Improved Communication. This seems to bear witness to the maxim that, “The conversation is the relationship and the relationship is the conversation.” How can Marriage Coaches help couples to improve their communication?
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Coaching Couples to be Participant-Observers in Marriage by Jeff and Jill Williams

If you want to help couples learn to help themselves by coaching their own marriage relationship it is essential that they learn to do two things well: 1. To participate in conversations with heart and skill. 2. To observe and adjust their own communication process.
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Can Marriage Coaching Help Couples in Crisis? By Jeff and Jill Williams

Marriage Coaching CAN help a couple in crisis IF they are motivated to learn skills to communicate and resolve conflict, and IF they will humble themselves to receive a miracle from God for their marriage.
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Couples Coaching Couples: The Advantages of Marriage Coaching by Teams of Two By Jeff and Jill Williams

"Isn't Jill coming for our Marriage Coaching session?" asked the couple in a disappointed tone of voice. We'd failed to notify our clients of Jill's schedule conflict, but didn't think they would mind seeing me alone. That belief was a holdover from marriage counseling, I guess. I was wrong. "Let's reschedule" they said...Two is better than one when it comes to Marriage Coaching...
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Effective Marriage Coaching: Facing the Brutal Facts by Jeff Williams

It's the moment of truth that makes every married couple quiver. It happens when they're asked the question that reveals what they really think, how they really feel, and why they've asked you to coach them, "How would you rate your marriage on a scale of 1-10?"
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When You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling: Coaching Your Marriage for Pleasure By Jeffrey J. Williams

Whether you've been disconnected in your marriage for a few days or a few months, the beginning of a solution is the same; communication. And coaching skills provide the tools you need to do the job of building pleasure back into your relationship.
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Talking About Talking: Creating the Conditions for Great Conversations by Jeff Williams

When we talk about talking before we have conversations it puts us in a good position to take stock of our mental and emotional reserves to determine if we have enough fuel in the tank to be our best in the way we listen and respond. "Can I serve Jill well right now? Will I be able to turn off the conversation in my head and to table distractions so that I can really hear her thoughts and feelings?
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Loving Listening: The #1 Way to Avoid Pain in Marriage

Listening from a heart of love accomplishes more than any other single coaching skill to convey care, build trust and soothe ruffled feathers. It is how Jill and I strengthen the bond of our marriage, and sometimes it is sufficient to repair it. I can't count the times that we have effectively managed an emotional and potentially damaging conversation by slowing down to simply
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The Marriage is The Client

Married couples are surprised, relieved and inspired when we tell them that their marriage is our client in the Marriage Coaching process. They are surprised because they come expecting a narrow focus on them as individuals. Instead, we elevate the discussion to the level of partnership and team which they find easier and less threatening to talk about.
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Making Time to Make Things Right

What if you were told that you had three months to live unless you received highly effective treatment that could cure you? Would you make time to be cured? Of course! This analogy fits marriage. Many couples are living a recipe for disaster. They don't create schedules to invest in their marriage. Instead, many other people and activities get their best, and they give leftovers to each other if they give at all.
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What is Christian Marriage Coaching?

Christian Marriage Coaching is the application of Christian Coaching concepts and skills to facilitate growth, healing and change for couples.
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Great Communication in 15 Minutes a Day

Equity in relationships is built by skillful sharing of honest thoughts and feelings. Notice the accent on skill. This is because skill is imperative to keep things positive and safe...
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