Susan Derry
BEd, MSPsy, CPC, CMT
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- Personal Growth; Relationship Counseling & Coaching
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- Counselor; Coach; Author; Seminar Facilitator
Susan Derry, B.ED., M.S.Psy., C.P.C., is a practicing professional counselor, certified professional coach and author.
One of Susan's main interests and goals in life is helping people recognize and reach for their potential. She believes that people really are amazing and often more amazing than they realize.
Susan has been married to Milton Derry for 30+ years. They have 6 children.
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Choose To Enjoy Each Day
Mary Jane Irion said, “Normal Day, let me be aware of the treasure that you are.” There are so many wonders around us each day, if we are awake and aware. Often times we are so busy getting to, coming from, hurrying from task to task that we seldom stop to smell the roses.
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What Is It Like To Live With Me?
Occasionally, it is helpful to get a reality check about how we are perceived by others. We may think that because we love our partner that they know it and feel it. But if we were to take a step back and consider our behavior and the messages we send and how those are received by our partner; we may find there is a disconnect between how we want to be seen by our partner and how our partner actually sees us. If we want to be seen as loving, generous and kind; are we behaving in loving, generous and kind ways?
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Getting Past Jealousy
Jealousy is simply insecurity in hyperdrive. Feeling jealous means that we have weighed and measured ourself and found ourself wanting. We compare ourself to someone or something else and feel that we are coming up short.
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How To Create A Great Couple's Getaway
Creating time for just the two of you is a vital part of a healthy relationship. Make getting away a regular part of your life. Take a weekend at least once a year; better yet, make it a week, twice a year. Too often couples allow their relationship to fall on the priority list behind the myriad of other balls they are juggling. Time away from daily stress can be just what they need to reconnect with each other.
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Learning to Accept Yourself
Too many people are unhappy with their appearance, their abilities or their intelligence. They have measured themselves and found that they are lacking; that somehow they are not good enough, smart enough, wealthy enough, or attractive enough.
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Finding The Passion In Your Life
Passion is not just limited to the bedroom. You can be passionate about many things in your life. The interesting thing is that the more you invite passion into your life, the greater the chances it will find its way to the bedroom. What do you love to do? When do you lose track of time and get immersed in what you are doing? I’m not talking about mind numbing distractions. What captivates your interest and attention? What makes you feel more alive and awake? Passion leads to feeling joy and fills your life with purpose.
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Playfulness: An Important Part of Healthy Relationships
Research indicates that we needs at least 12 laughs a day to be healthy. Laughter helps to boost our immune system and makes us more resilient. As Reader Digest suggests, laughter really is the best medicine. It can help you to relax and boost your mood. It helps to protect your heart and to reduce physical pain. It decreases stress hormones and releases endorphins or feel good chemicals in your brain. It increases oxygen flow to your brain and improve creativity.
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Love, Lust and Friendship
Carl Reiner stated, “Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.” What is the difference between lust and love, between loving and liking?
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Do We Really Mean For Better, For Worse?
Too many couples quickly forget or never internalize the concept of for better, for worse. When their relationship becomes difficult, as all relationships do, they start to question whether it is working for them. Their lack of enjoyment in the relationship leads them to wonder if there might be something better out there for them.
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Bad Relationship = Opportunity for Growth
Looking at any negative experiences in our lives as an opportunity for growth, rather than misfortune, will allow our lives to have an uphill rather than a downhill trend. When you use what you learned from a previous relationship to grow and mature you will be in a better position to form a new relationship. A painful relationship signals the need for growth. Whether you are now free of that relationship or still feel stuck in it, personal growth is the answer.
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Relationships: Pulling Together Rather Than Apart
Have you ever found yourself stuck when trying to solve a problem in your relationship? You talk or battle round and round and never seem to reach any type of agreement. Granted some problems are complicated and difficult to solve, but sometimes we complicate our problems by approaching them from the “I’m right” and “you’re wrong” perspective. Sometimes in order to solve a problem you need to make a paradigm shift; you need to change the way that you are looking at the problem.
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Your Relationship Reflects Who You Are
The state of our relationships in many ways is a reflection of who we are. Just as a thorn bush does not grow apples, being angry and bitter inside does not tend to produce happy, contented relationships. Too often how we see our partner says more about us that it does about them.
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Improving Relationships Blog
Find thoughts, pondering, advice and ideas for improving your relationships, including your relationship with your self. Yet another way to help you bridge the gap from where you are in your relationships to where you want to be.
June 30, 2010
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Relationship Spa - Renew & Rejuvinate Your Relationship
Relationship spa is design to help you rejuvenate, strengthen, and pamper your relationship. We share advice, examples and tools from our experience as Relationship Counselors and Life coaches. Return to again and again to spice up, tune up or maintain your relationship.
May 24, 2010
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Marriage Preparation Course
Marriage Preparation at your convenience. Non-denominational course created by professional counselors. It is designed to be informative and it creates opportunities for you to learn about yourself and each other and what it takes to create a satisfying and lasting marriage.
April 26, 2010