Turn Off the Cell, Turn On the Touch.
There are couples who arrive at my office seemingly more attached to their cell phones than to each other. Some clients instinctively put their cell phones out in plain sight so that they can hear the soft hum or bell of a text, email or call arriving. Before we start our session, I ask them to remove their phones from the sacred space for the duration of the session. This request is sometimes met with a look of fear, as if I'm asking people to remove their life support sy