Choose Positive Living with Sara troy and her guest Dr Mary Giuffra, on air from July 3rd

 Dr. Mary J. Giuffra, a licensed marriage and family therapist of 40 years and author of the new book ,2 X 2 on the Ark: Five Secrets of a Great Relationship. Dr. Giuffra combines neuroscience, psychology and decades of experience working with thousands of couples and supervising family and couples’ therapists. While her own relationship with her husband lasted nearly 60 years before his passing,

Dr. Mary J. Guiffra shares with our listeners:

• Why we should never pursue a person who is distancing themselves from us. Pull back and give them space.  
• Why we should avoid triangles: Speak directly to your partner and not through others
• The relationship killers and how to avoid them (contempt, criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling)
• The importance of identifying your personal triggers — those conditioned behaviors, comments, and expressions that cause a knee-jerk reaction from you
• Why we should never compare our relationship to those of friends and family — becoming aware of how and why we do this 
• How to apologize and make repairs 
• The destructive myths of marriage 

Dr. Mary J. Guiffra has been counseling couples and families for over 40 years, a tenured professor at New York University where she received her PhD and holds an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from the College of Mount Saint Vincent. As a teacher to hundreds of couple therapists in training, Dr Giuffra has researched couple relationships and is widely published. She has presented at international conferences, has been featured on TV and radio and has served on the boards of professional journals, hospitals and community health agencies. As a family consultant to schools, colleges and universities, she served as vice president to her local school board.

Dr. Guiffra developed Biological Couples Therapy and presented it at The U.S. Association for Body Psychotherapy and international conferences in the Netherlands and France. She served on the boards of Westchester Medical Center, Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center, Montefiore Medical Center, Einstein Medical Center, New York Presbyterian Medical Center (formerly Lawrence Hospital), Westchester County Department of Health and the Deans Council of NYU/Steinhardt for 20
years. She was also on the faculty of the Center for Family Learning in New York for 20 years and was Founding Vice President of the USABP (United States Association for Body Psychotherapy).

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