Relationships blog
Keeping love alive after baby
So, you have a beautiful new baby. Congratulations! This is such a special time for you and your partner. As a wife, mum of 2 and a relationship coach, I often have women calling out to me for help in these early days of motherhood. The baby has changed their relationship dynamics and with the…
Is he turning into his father?
So much tension is created in relationships over the in-laws. I often get asked to help women with ways of handling tricky mother’s in law or snoopy father’s in law. Family complications like this are not what we signed up for when we chose to spend our lives with our partners. But what can be…
Why can’t he just do things the right way?
I should have felt annoyed. It was Saturday evening. I arrived home after holding my Sensual Soul Workshop and I was feeling great; light, soft, present and open……. in essence sensual. I had spent the day with a group of women letting go of our need to be perfect and welcoming our more natural, honest…
Is your husband making you feel like shit?
A lot of the women I work with blame their husbands for the way they feel. ‘He makes me feel like shit’, they tell me. ‘He doesn’t surprise me anymore’. ‘I feel like we’re little more than housemates’. ‘He doesn’t put in any effort’. ‘He doesn’t look at me the way he used to’. I…
5 reasons to stop being a perfectionist for the sake of your relationship
Is perfectionism destroying your relationship? 5 reasons to stop being a perfectionist for the sake of your relationship Is this you? I just want everything to be sorted so that I can relax/ enjoy life I wish my partner could do things the “right” way I feel uncomfortable / stressed if things are not all…
How can I trust my partner more?
How can I trust my partner more? Trust can be one of the most difficult aspects of intimate relationships. For some of us the struggle is an inner one. The very act of being intimate with someone makes us feel hugely vulnerable and jittery, affecting how we can trust. For others, we may have…
Why do I feel so numb in my lady parts?
Are you wondering why you feel numb, disconnected, or shameful about your vagina? It is not all that hard to figure out really as vaginas have been shamed and felt ashamed of for millenia. For many of us, the mere mention of the word vagina, makes us feel awkward. In fact, I remember a time…
How can I learn to let love in?
Love takes a great deal of courage. When I was a very young adult, I thought all I wanted was love and I searched for it in nightclubs. Inside I felt unsure of myself {to put it mildly}. I felt unattractive / unloveable. One night in a nightclub, I found someone who was really into…
Big change without going anywhere
Sometimes things have to change. You feel so stuck. Like nothing is working. You need to get unstuck, but how? Sometimes, my friends, it takes a big move! The other day, I got talking to a lovely lady who was feeling truly stuck in single-dom. She was telling me that, to get unstuck, she had…
5 things that don’t need to end your relationship
“Is it a deal breaker?” 5 relationship deal-breakers….. or perhaps not! A fresh perspective on 5 things we traditionally think lead to relationship breakdown At some time in our lives, just about all of us have asked ourselves the question immortalised by The Clash, “Should I stay, or should I go?” In this post…
Hi, I'm Nicole Mathieson, a relationship and body image coach, couple therapist and author.
This blog is designed to help teach couples practical ways to cultivate a deeper understanding of one another, find safety and connection in relationships, navigate difficult conversations and repair after conflict.
