Kim Olver
MS, NCC, LPC
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Relationship, Parenting, and All-Around Self-Help Expert

Kim Olver Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Relationships, Parenting, Coaching, Diversity, Reality Therapy & Choice Theory
- Best Sellers
- Secrets of Happy Couples
- Career Focus
- Author, Coach & Keynote Speaker
- Affiliation
- American Counseling Association, William Glasser Insitute, Alliance of Chicago Trainers
Kim Olver is a life and relationship coach. Her mission is to help people get along better with the important people in their lives, including themselves. She teaches people how to live from the inside out by empowering them to focus on the things they can change. She in an internationally recognized speaker, having worked in Australia, Europe and Africa, as well as all over the United States and Canada. She is the creator of the new, revolutionary process called, Inside Out Empowerment based on Dr. William Glasser's Choice Theory. She is a public speaker and provides workshops in the areas of relationships, parenting, and a variety of self-growth topics. She is the author of Leveraging Diversity at Work and the forthcoming book, Secrets of Happy Couples: Loving yourself, your partner and your life due out for release in February 2011. She co-authored a book with Ken Blanchard, Les Brown, Mark Victor Hansen and Byron Katie, entitled 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life. She works with individuals, couples, parents, social service agencies, schools, corporations and the military--anyone who will benefit from gaining more effective control over their lives. She has consulted on relationships, parenting, self-development, training, leadership development, diversity, treatment programs and management styles.
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Free Articles & Book Excerpts
How to know if he/she is the one
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2006/theone02_06.html
Starting Over
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2005/startingover10_05.html
Trust In Relationships
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2007/trust01_07.html
Violence in Intimate Relationships
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2006/violenceinrelat08_06.html
Parenting
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2007/parenting03_07.html
Roots & Wings
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2005/rootswings6_05.html
InsideOut Empowerment
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2006/insideoutemp03_06.html
Alone Who Are You?
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2006/alonewhoareu03_06.html
Love & Caring Habits - Part One
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2007/loveandcaringpt1_11_07.html
Love & Caring Habits - Part Two
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/loveandcaringpt2_01_08.html
Can your relationship survive this affair?
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/surviveaffair2_08.html
Jealousy
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/jealousy04_08.html
Relationships of Possession
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/relationshipofpossession07_08.html
Self-Transformation: Five Steps to Being the Person You Want to Be
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/selftransform10_08.html
Relationships-Whose Problem Is It?
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/relationships11_08.html
Goal Attainment: What would you have to give up?
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2008/goalattain12_08.html
Parents and Their Child’s Privacy
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2009/childprivacy02_09.html
Losing Weight: Understanding Why You Eat
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2009/losingweight02_09.html
Parenting: How to Discipline Teenagers
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2009/disciplineteenagers05_09.html
Seven Methods to Combat Depression without Medication
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/2009/depression10_09.html
Five Steps to Finding Your Soulmate
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/soulmate02_10.html
Surviving an Affair
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/survivinganaffair08_10.html
When to Leave a Relationship
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/whentoleave_12_10.html
Fatal Relationship Errors
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/fatalerrors02_11.html
Relationships ABCs
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/relationshipabc02_12.html
Five Steps to Loving Yourself Again
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/5stepstolovingyourself_0312.html
To Be Exclusive or Not . . . That is the Question: 7 Reasons for or Against Commitment
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/tobeexclusive_0512.html
What is InsideOut Empowerment™ and What Can It Do For Me?
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/whatisIOE_0612.html
Lessons I Learned from 50 Shades of Grey
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/50shadesofgrey07_12.html
Kim Olver Books
101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life
http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?Clk=1810967
Leveraging Diversity at Work
http://www.leveragingdiversityatwork.com
Relationships from the InsideOut
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/relationshipebook.html
Insid Out Thinking
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/insideout_ebook.html
Anger Management
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/angermgmt_ebook.html
Empowerment Parenting
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/empowerparentebook.html
Goal Attainment
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/goal_ebook.html
Weight Loss from the InsideOut
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/weightloss_ebook.html
Secrets of Happy Couples
http://www.secretsofhappycouples.com
Prepare to Love Again
http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/griefebook.html
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Parenting: How to Discipline Teenagers
I have received a lot of inquires lately about how to discipline teenagers. It’s an interesting topic and one that bears consideration. I believe most of the issue lies in how one identifies the problem. There are three major considerations. When children enter the teen years, their developmental stage is of separation and individuation, meaning they are attempting to establish themselves as independent of their parents, specifically, and in some cases, society, in general.
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Relationships: Whose Problem is It?
In relationships, it is not uncommon for couples to have difficulties. Sometimes there are things your partner does that drives you crazy! In my work with couples, a common, innocent complaint of women is that their husbands don’t put their dirty clothes in the hamper. They will leave their ...
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Self-Transformation: Five Steps to Being the Person You Want to Be
There was a time I can remember when some people used to wear bracelets with the inscription “WWJD”? This question, "What would Jesus do?", was designed for its wearer to be reminded to act in a way he or she valued and wanted to emulate. This provided a path for Christians but what about those ...
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Goal Attainment: What Would You Have to Give Up?
As 2008 draws to a close, some of you are already looking ahead to what you want to do in 2009. It’s the time of year we begin to self-reflect and adjust our course for the upcoming year. In my work coaching people, I find it interesting that many of my clients set very clear intentions for ...
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Can Your Relationship Survive this Affair?
I have received enough questions from people over the years asking about how to get past an affair that I wanted to write about it. There are so many intricate details of your personal relationship that factor into this decision that it is challenging to make generalizations but I will provide a ...
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Relationships of Possession
How many times in a day do you use the word “my” to describe a particular relationship you have with someone in your life? For example, you might say “my husband,” “my child,” “my friend,” or “my parents.” While the possessive pronoun “my” helps to explain certain relationships, it can actually ...
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Parents and Their Child’s Privacy
When does a child’s right to privacy begin and a parent’s right to know end? I don’t have definitive answers but I do have what I hope will be some helpful guidelines. Let’s begin by looking at the opposite ends of the continuum. To begin at the beginning, you start off with an infant, who ...
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Jealousy
Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might be . . . but living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now—Anne Morrow Lindbergh Jealousy is something that can completely destroy your relationships. Where does ...
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Discipline and Control
Sometimes as parents we need to be extremely creative in our discipline. I managed to have a stroke of creative genius when my son was 16 that I want to share with you that helps illustrate a facet of Empowerment Parenting: "The only person whose behavior you can control is your own." When Kyle ...
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Are You a Pleasure Junky?
What is a pleasure junky, you ask? A pleasure junky is a person always seeking happiness in short-term, feel good ways. A pleasure junky would choose junk food over good health, casual sex over a committed relationship and impulse spending over long-term saving. A pleasure junky wants to feel ...
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Inside Out Empowerment
When we are thinking of making changes in our lives, all too often we look exte ally. We have a perfect picture in our heads about what life should look like, then we go about acting on life to give us whatever it is we think would be perfect. The only problem with this approach is that we are ...
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Love and the Caring Habits Part One
If you haven’t read my article on the Deadly Relationship Habits (http://www.therelationshipcenter.biz/newsletters/deadlyhabits4_05.html), then you may want to do so by clicking on the link. This article tells you what to do in your relationships to replace the destructive habits with more ...
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Coaching for Excellence - The Relationship Center
P.O. Box 2666
Country Club Hills, IL 60478
Phone: 708-957-6047
Fax: 708-957-8028
Kim@therelationshipcenter.biz
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