Help Your Sex Coaching Clients Get Unstuck with Sexual Mindfulness
AC Sex Coaching for Committed Couples In this post I’ll show you how to help your sex coaching clients get unstuck with Sexual Mindfulness. In a recent post I discussed how to help clients get unstuck using the six components of psychological flexibility. In this post I want to focus on what Mindfulness means and how it can help your clients getting unstuck from being in a sexual rut. Mindfulness is best described as moment-by-moment awareness. There are four dimensions of mindful moments. All mindful moments are: present centered...
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AC Sex Coaching for Committed Couples In this post I’ll show you how to help your sex coaching clients get unstuck with Sexual Acceptance. In previous post I discussed the value of Mindfulness to help your clients get unstuck from sexual ruts. Acceptance builds on mindfulness by teaching clients how to acknowledge and accept their troubling thoughts and painful emotions and keep moving forward towards fulfilling their sexual and relationship goals. Acceptance has four components: accepting reality for what it is. accepting what can...
read moreHelp Your Sex Coaching Clients Get Unstuck With Valued Sexual Living
AC Sex Coaching for Committed Couples In this post I’ll show you how to help your sex coaching clients get unstuck with valued living. In a recent post I discussed how to get unstuck using Acceptance, a core AC Coaching practice. In this post I want to focus on another core AC Coaching practice Valued Sexual Living, and how it relates to clients getting stuck on a sexual rut. What Are Values? Values are like the North Star. They are guiding lights that serve as sign posts for the direction your clients want their lives to take....
read moreHelp Your Sex Coaching Clients get Unstuck With Commitment
AC Sex Coaching for Committed Couples In this post I will show you how you can help your sex coaching clients get unstuck with commitment. In a recent post I discussed what values are and how Valued Sexual Living can help your clients develop greater psychological flexibility and get unstuck from sexual ruts. In this post I want to focus on Commitment, the next AC Coaching process you can use to help your clients get unstuck. Commitment builds upon Valued Sexual Living by taking the sexual values clients identify in that process and using...
read moreCoaches: Help Your Sex Coaching Clients Get Unstuck
AC Sex Coaching for Committed Couples Coaches, in this post I’ll show you how you can help your sex coaching clients get unstuck. Do you work with clients or couples who: have been in a committed relationship (marriage or other) for at least 5-10 years. do not have a DSM V Sexual Disorder but are stuck in a sexual rut. are still in love but have found that their passion and desire are not what they used to be. feel that their sex lives could use a tune up but are not interested in anything kinky or artificial. If so then you’ve come to...
read moreHelp Your Sex Coaching Clients Get Unstuck with the Observing Self and Disentanglement
AC Sex Coaching For Committed Couples In this post I’ll show you how to help your sex coaching clients get unstuck with the Observing Self and Disentanglement, two powerful AC Sex Coaching techniques. In a recent post I discussed how you can help your clients develop greater psychological flexibility and get unstuck using Commitment, one of the core AC Coaching processes. In this post I want to focus on the remaining two AC Coaching core components, Observing Self and Disentanglement since they go hand-in-hand. Viewed from an AC...
read moreAn AC Sex Coaching Perspective on Human Sexuality
AC Sex Coaching for Committed Couples What is AC Sex Coaching? In this I explain an AC Sex Coaching perspective on human sexuality. Many of the components of human sexuality presented here are similar to those described in my college textbook Healthy Sexuality and most other professional training materials on the subject. What is unique is the slant provided by Acceptance and Commitment (AC) coaching, a new field that adapts principles and practices of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to coaching. What is Human Sexuality? Human...
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AC Sex Coaching For Committed Couples What Are Your Sex and Relationship Clients Like? In this post I talk about how AC sex coaching for committed couples works and how you can earn 10 CEUS learning how to use it in your coaching practice. Before I go into the details however I’d like to ask you a few questions about your sex and relationship coaching clients. Do you work with clients or couples who: have been in a committed relationship (marriage or other) for at least 5-10 years? do not have a DSM V Sexual Disorder but are...
read moreHow Acceptance and Commitment (AC) Coaching differs from ACT
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness In this post I’ll talk about how Acceptance and Commitment (AC) coaching differs from ACT. Acceptance and Commitment ( AC) Coaching and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) are similar but different Acceptance and Commitment Coaching takes the principles and practices of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and adapts them to fit the needs of coaches working in a variety of settings. The word therapy may have already sent up a red flag in your mind, but fear not, you can use the principles and...
read moreHelp Your Coaching Clients Become More Psychologically Flexible Through Acceptance
Maximize Your Coaching Effectiveness In a recent post I discussed the six components of psychological flexibility. Valued Living, Mindfulness, Acceptance, Commitment, Observing Self, and Disentanglement ( Anstiss and Blonna (2014) . In this post I want to focus on Acceptance which has four components: accepting reality for what it is accepting what you can and cannot control accepting that trying to avoid, eliminate, or control painful internal factors actually makes them worse accepting that the best way to manage painful internal...
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