by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Oct 19, 2020 | Truth
“Care about people’s approval, and you will always be their prisoner.” -Lao Tzu My client’s kids are grown, off building their own families, own careers, and own lives. She and her husband had made a decision that her oldest daughter didn’t...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Aug 24, 2020 | Truth
“A long but unhappy marriage is not a successful marriage.” -Dr. Anne Brown So many people believe that a successful marriage is the one that lasts forever… …the one that lives up to the vow, “‘till death do us part.” So we often hold ourselves to that...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Aug 3, 2020 | Truth
“From a psychological perspective, our relationship to the forbidden sheds a light on the darker, and less straightforward aspects of our humanity.” Esther Perel My client, Mary, told me, “My affair made me feel alive.” Because she had been feeling numb, lonely and...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Jun 29, 2020 | Truth
“If you cannot live without your marriage, you cannot navigate within it.” Harriet Lerner, PhD My client is a full-time nurse and her husband is an executive who is both over-working and over-drinking. She suspects it’s his way of avoiding the difficulties inside the...
by Sharon Pope | Oct 11, 2019 | Truth
Someone said this to me yesterday and it really hit home: “All growth and healing happens in community. We don’t accomplish anything meaningful on our own.” Oftentimes, when I am coaching clients I am doing so in small, intimate groups of women who...
by Sharon Pope | Last updated: Jun 25, 2019 | Truth
This December, my book, Why Isn’t This Marriage Enough?, will be in bookstores around the country. But when you’re struggling in your most important, most intimate relationship….I can understand why you wouldn’t want to have to wait until December to get answers, to...
