The Montfort Group

How to Love Yourself Unconditionally

love yourself

The fact that you’re actively seeking out how to love yourself more is a great sign. Here are the following steps you must take to start loving yourself more.

Valentine’s Day – Heartache or Celebrate?

Valentine’s Day – Heart Ache or Celebrate

Valentine’s Day can be a tough one for many people–folks who are lonely because of a break up, a love lost or a love not yet found. A reminder of what one doesn’t have. It’s time for a reset.

Don’t Give Up: Learning To Communicate

learning to communicate

Relationships are made up of people each trying to find their way in a complex world. Selfishness, ego, the need to be right, and defensiveness are all part of human nature. Keeping these traits in healthy balance can be difficult. Not managed well, these common characteristics can corrode the best relationships.

Why People Fall Out of Love

why people fall out of love

This blog covers several of the most common reasons people fall out of love. It is divided by four subheadings, each dealing with one of those reasons: resistance to change, threats from outside the relationship, boredom and disgust, and unrealistic expectations.

Fall in Love with Love

Teen Counseling

It’s easy to look back on my experiences with love and confuse it with the people who hurt me. The mangled family relationships, the messy romances, the ones that got away. It’s also easy to confuse love with that chemical high that rushes our hearts and brains and causes us to make sometimes disastrous impulsive decisions. These heartaches and mistakes can easily make us wary of love itself.

Love and Fear in Parenting

parenting fears

How proactively choosing love can change the way we parent. Parenting fears are something we all face. Working through, understanding the fear is key.

Love is Great!

love is great

Love. Love is great. Teaching love, watching love, practicing love, believing love. These are all necessary to effective therapy. It is in misunderstood feelings that we teach love.

Chaos.

chaos

I am a firm believer in the statement, “chaos precedes change.” Historically, there have been countless paradigm shifts towards our evolution as a society. These shifts start with a certain group of marginalized individuals becoming aware of their legitimate worth, the worth of their voice. Therefore, their desire to create change in order to be heard and valued begins.