Loving Relationships — Blog by Karin Peeters

Let’s get emotional! How to build our emotional vocabulary?

How to figure out how we feel about something? And how to express emotions in words? Let’s expand our emotional vocabulary with feeling words, so we can name our experiences and improve our connection with ourselves and others.

Lifting your Mood, Loving Relationships, Reduce Stress and AnxietyKarin PeetersMarch 19, 2024emotions, feelings, wheel, list, understand, meaning, definition, vocabulary, language, words, chart, examples

Transactional Analysis (TA) - exploring your Life Script

Understanding your life script, injunctions (prohibitions) and drivers (behavioural sign posts), and making conscious redecisions is vital for a healthy, authentic life. Includes four ways to rewrite your own script.

Confidence & Self-Worth, Loving RelationshipsKarin PeetersDecember 24, 2023anxiety, Transactional, Analysis, TA, life scripts, script, injunctions, drivers, childhood, parent adult child model, examples

Festive Burnout - what to do when Christmas creates anxiety and overwhelm

Does the thought of Christmas exhaust you? Here we are offering some very practical things to do in the moment should you become overwhelmed.

Reduce Stress and Anxiety, Loving RelationshipsKarin PeetersDecember 4, 2023christmas, exhaustion, overwhelm, burnout, stressful, stress, festive season, holidays

Common Christmas family arguments and how to avoid them

Have the gift of a harmonious home for Christmas and don’t spend a penny. Register today for our free video guide with three practical coaching tools to avoid stress, rows and arguments.

Loving RelationshipsKarin PeetersNovember 27, 2023christmas, family, dinner, wishes, celebration, harmony, stress, arguments, rows, conflict, toxic, relatives, festive season, gatherings, fights

Understanding the Parent Adult Child Model (PAC) of Transactional Analysis

Taking time to become our own nurturing parent for our inner child is so vital. This model helps to improve our relationship with ourselves and others, enhances our communication and frees ourselves from unhelpful patterns.

Loving RelationshipsKarin PeetersNovember 17, 2023PAC Model, Parent, Adult, Child, Model, Transactional, Analysis, TA, Theory, Psychology, ego state, ego states, Eric Berne, transactions

What does it really mean to love someone?

The first 18 months of being in a new relationship are bliss. But then you get to know each other, and the challenges begin… You’re invited to learn how to love.