Igniting Intimacy


Creating a Sweet Home so Love Can Thrive

Join me, Claire O’Connor, on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, as I interview the bright and lovely Elaine McCaw on the topic of how couples can use their home spaces to deepen sweetness on many levels.

Click here to access the recording of Elaine’s call

Your home is a ‘reciprocal space’ -– an intimate mirror of your truest self, as well as a space that ideally supports you in discovering yourself even more deeply. In the context of your relationship, three key areas of exploration are available for couples wishing to create a home that supports the growth of authentic intimacy.

To experience a thriving intimate relationship, each person nurtures and celebrates a clear sense of individuality within the partnership. This is a point that many couples become stuck on, and find a balance difficult to  maintain — or even attain.

The perfect note to strike is a just-right rhythm of personal space and togetherness.

With healthy personal space, togetherness takes on a deeper, more harmonious and more deeply satisfying quality. True connection is available only when each individual honors the physical space as a place of free self-expression — shared and collaborative. Intimacy thrives amidst freedom and personal expression.

True connection generates a palpable energy in your home

Connection with each other, your physical environment, and others is facilitated in the energy that you as a couple inject into your home.

Collaboration creates a tangible comfort and acts as a bouncy springboard for your contribution to the greater whole

Your physical space is a mixture of you and your partner’s ideas, experiences, and tastes — combined into a single vision. The home, in this sense, is an entity that symbolizes the combined energy of those that live within, and it reflects the inner-most personal comfort –- weaving these elements of ourselves into a space that nurtures both individuals requires a collaborative journey.

Your extended circle of friends and family invisibly benefit by the ripple effect of your connection with your partner

The energy shared within your personal spaces effects all who enter, thereby contributing to collective wellbeing of your extended circle. The energy that we bring to others, directly and subtly, has an exponential effect as it ripples out. Relationships are about sharing not only with our partner, but sharing our relationship energy with those around us as well –- a wider circle.

 

About Elaine

Elaine McCaw is a couples therapist, family mediator, and workshop facilitator — passionate about the powerful potential that conscious intimate relationships hold for our individual and collective well-being. Conscious couples, by nature of the term, operate free from illusion or unconscious automatic patterns that repeat and deaden vitality and connection. The planet needs awake, vitally engaged, and connected couples, more now than ever. Elaine has a full clinical counseling practice in Vancouver, British Columbia and she facilitates group trainings and couples intensives in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Click here to access the recording of Elaine’s call