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Couples Coaching
and Mixed-Faith Marriage Coaching

Different Perspectives, Connected Hearts
Specializing in helping you navigate fundamental differences, conflicting beliefs/perspectives, and significant disagreements in your relationship. Transform your relationship into more connection, collaboration, fulfillment, and hope for your future together.


When Your Relationship Differences Trigger You: How Couples Can Respond With Maturity Instead of Reactivity
Every couple faces core differences. The problem isn’t the difference itself—it’s how we react. This blog explores how emotional reactivity can sabotage connection and how to respond instead with relational maturity. Learn why your inner “adaptive child” takes over, and how to pause, reflect, and make wiser choices when you and your partner don’t see eye to eye.
Suzette Halterman
Apr 244 min read
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How to Create Rituals That Strengthen Connection in Mixed-Faith Marriages and Families
The content of your ritual matters less than the connection it creates.
Suzette Halterman
Mar 316 min read
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How to Compromise in a Mixed-Faith Marriage: A Step-by-Step Guide
Learn how to navigate compromise in a mixed-faith marriage with expert strategies to create win-win solutions and strengthen your bond
Suzette Halterman
Mar 134 min read
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Mixed-Faith Parenting: What to Do About Church Participation?
parents can take a principled approach—one that protects their own energy, supports their values, and respects their child’s autonomy.
Suzette Halterman
Mar 74 min read
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Relational Mindfulness: Creating New Possibilities in Navigating Differences
Relational mindfulness is key to creating more positive interactions in conflicts where you may never see eye to eye.
Suzette Halterman
Feb 113 min read
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Mixed-Faith Parenting- A Values-Based Approach
When it comes to mixed-faith marriages and raising children, it can become complicated very quickly when you both want to share your...
Suzette Halterman
Nov 30, 20237 min read
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Mixed-Faith Parenting- Do No Harm: Intellectual Abuse vs. Intellectual Nurturing
The goal of this blog series about mixed-faith parenting is to give you some possible frameworks from which you can parent that will...
Suzette Halterman
Nov 30, 20235 min read
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Mixed-Faith Parenting-Zooming Out: Nurturing The Whole Child
How to look at the big picture of raising a child and approach your mixed-faith parenting from a place of nurturing the whole child.
Suzette Halterman
Nov 30, 20236 min read
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Mixed Faith Parenting: Zooming Out - What Makes "Good" Parenting?
An approach to mixed-faith parenting that looks at where you agree, and how you can each contribute to nurturing and guiding your child.
Suzette Halterman
Nov 30, 20236 min read
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Mixed Faith Parenting: Zooming Out- an introduction
There are many ways to approach mixed-faith parenting and many different paths to raise great children.
Suzette Halterman
Nov 25, 20233 min read
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Stonewalling-The Last of the 4 Horsemen
In my opinion, stonewalling is the most misunderstood of the 4 Horsemen. It can also be one of the most difficult patterns to identify...
Suzette Halterman
Nov 25, 20238 min read
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Contempt: The Deadliest of the 4 Horsemen
Of all of the 4 Horsemen, Dr. Gottman refers to contempt as the deadliest of them all. Dr. Gottman calls it the most destructive behavior...
Suzette Halterman
Nov 25, 20237 min read
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The 4 Horsemen: Defensiveness---You Can't Protect and Connect At The Same Time!
Defensiveness comes up frequently in mixed-faith marriages in the form of defending one’s views, thoughts, or beliefs.
Suzette Halterman
Nov 25, 20238 min read
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The First of the 4 Horsemen: Criticism And Why It's So Dangerous
If you can eliminate criticism, you will greatly reduce the chance that the other horsemen will show up in your mixed-faith marriage.
Suzette Halterman
Nov 25, 20236 min read
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Perpetual Problems: The Root of Most Mixed-Faith Marriage Conflict
Religious/Spiritual differences in a mixed-faith marriage tend to fall under this category of perpetual problems.
Suzette Halterman
Nov 25, 20234 min read
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