What’s happening at Blissful Minds?
Every year comes with its challenges and wins and whatever this year brings, let’s work on it together. Here’s to a new chapter of improvement and growth!
On the Move
We are truly delighted to let you know that we are relocating our Redcliffe practices to 11/22 Bremner Rd, Rothwell. Our seven practice rooms and two children’s therapy areas will now all be in one location, still on the Redcliffe Peninsula and just ten minutes away from our current location. Our official opening is set for February 12th.. And we look forward to welcoming you to our amazing new rooms with ample parking space.
Additional hours
Our counsellor, Deb, is now seeing clients at our Stafford practice on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
At our Caloundra practice, Elissa, our Director, is now seeing clients on Thursdays and Fridays.
Please pay our invoice by BPay
If you are more comfortable paying our fees from an invoice, BPay is our preferred method of receiving payments as it is more efficient than bank transfers and makes our reconciliation simpler.
The Biller Code is: 306 704 and your unique CRN (Customer Reference Number) is located at the bottom of your invoice:
Are you running late for your appointment?
As a courtesy to your counsellor, please try to arrive at least five minutes early for your appointment. However, we understand that occasionally unforeseen events happen. It’s not necessary to call the office as your counsellor will wait for you at least 15 minutes into the appointment. Your session will still have to finish at the appointed time as other clients will probably waiting.
Connection in Relationships
This month’s article and video https://youtu.be/B03BdJRV5Ko?si=f1jFDM1IHQg9_oV0 from Courtney, our practice manager, is about connection in relationships.
When it comes to connection, especially in relationships, the first thing that you need to do is have a think about how connection is related to you and how you receive love. The way I want you to do this is have a really good think about how the following questions apply to you:
What does love mean to you?
What does love look like to you?
What behaviour does someone have to display for you to know that they love you?
You might have found the above questions a little bit tricky to answer and this is okay because a lot of people haven’t stopped and had a really good think about how they receive love or how they feel connected to their partner. What you might even find, if you were to ask some friends or family or even your partner the same questions, is that they may have very different answers to yours. This is completely normal as we all feel love and connection in different ways.
Open discussion
Let’s explore this further and give you an example of what this might look like within a relationship. Have you ever done something for your partner to show how much you love them, however they’ve responded in a different way or not the way that you thought that they might? Or have you ever thought that you were putting all this effort into the relationship, but don’t feel that your partner was doing the same even though they may say that they are? Perhaps this is a sign that you’re speaking two different languages when it comes to love and connection. So how do we know how our partner receives love or feels connected with us? We ask them. The first thing that I want you to do is try inviting your partner to have an open discussion around how they feel love and how they feel connected to you. The way to do this is by asking them the following questions:
What do I do that makes you feel loved?
What do I do that makes you feel happy? and
What can I do more of to show you just how much I love you?
Make sure that you’ve also prepared your own answers to these questions. This way you can share your responses with your partner. This will help to open up a conversation where you’re both able to communicate your needs around love and connection within the relationship.
The Five love languages
Another tool that you can use to identify how you and partner receive love is the framework of the five love languages. The five languages are words of affirmation, acts of service, receiving gifts, quality time and physical touch. So, once again, understanding how you receive love within a relationship and also understanding how your partner receives love within a relationship can increase communication and also increase connection as you’re both going to understand what you need when it comes to love and feeling really connected to your partner.
Quiz
If you’d like to know what love language you are and also what your partner is have a look at the five love languages quiz: https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language It’s free and takes about ten minutes for yourself and your partner to complete. The most important thing though is to make sure that you’re communicating your results to each other.
Connect
This is just one tool that you could use to increase connection within your relationship. However, if you and your partner would like to explore connection further, would like to reconnect or connect on a different level here, at Blissful Minds, we have a team of qualified and experienced counsellors who are able to support your relationship. All relationships are unique. In counselling, you, your partner and your counsellor will come up with a plan to best support your relationship. This plan may consist of increasing communication within the relationship, increasing connection both emotionally and physically within the relationship, decreasing intensity of arguments. You may even look at how you go about arguing and your counsellor may give you different tools and strategies to argue or have conversations in a productive way and also look at compassion within the relationship.
Book in
If you and your partner would like to book in for a session with one of our relationship counsellors, or even if you’d like to find out some more information about relationship counselling, please feel free to contact me on 1300 59 39 55 or send an email to or even message us through Facebook.
The Blissful Minds Team