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MY PASSION IS BUILDING STRONG MARRIAGES FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.

I’m honored to get to do this work in many ways, with one-on-one clients, private group coaching programs, my podcast First Year Married, and my six week online course by the same name.

Having worked with groups in mentoring and educational settings since 2007 and receiving certification in Life Coaching from The Refuah Institute in 2014, I have been working one-on-one and in small groups with women of a variety of ages. In 2016 I attended an advanced skills workshop with Brooke Castillo of the Life Coach School, which serves as the basis of my coaching today.

As a marriage coach, I am strongly influenced by the work of Alison Armstrong, Dr. Pat Love, Dr. Leonard Sax, and Laura Doyle. I am also fascinated by religious traditions around marriage, and pull from my own traditions as a religious Jew. While about 50% of course participants are not Jewish, the concept of the First Year Married Course was inspired by a tradition called “shana rishona” in which the first year is marked and protected as a building period for a new marriage.

In today’s world where we focus so much attention on the engagement and wedding and very little resources are available for achieving success in marriage, I am especially inspired by my clients who are determined to find better solutions and deeper understandings to help them have a connected and inspirational marriage.

I initially planned the First Year Married program to focus specifically on women whose parents were divorced. I was seeing strong feelings of anxiety and concern from these women and sought to give them a program that would show them that marriage is “figure-out-able.” It’s not a scary hit-or-miss and your parents’ marriage has little to no bearing on your own marriage’s health. The program opened up when several women approached me with very similar feelings despite not “fitting in” to the divorced-parent niche.

Having begun my podcast in 2018, I have begun to hear even more from women in their first year of marriage and have gained additional insights into the unique challenges of this phase in life.