Linda and Charlie Bloom
LCSW, MSW
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Linda and Charlie Bloom Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Relationships
- Best Sellers
- Happily Ever After…and 39 Other Myths about Love: Breaking Through to the Relationship of Your Dreams, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last, and Secrets of Great Marriages: Real Stories from Real Couples about Lasting Love.
- Career Focus
- Authors, Seminar Leaders, Couple's Counseling
Married since 1972, Linda and Charlie Bloom have been working with groups, individuals, couples and organizations to enhance the quality of their relationships and communication skills since 1975. They both have Master’s degrees in Clinical Social Work and have lectured, led seminars and provided consultation at universities and learning institutes throughout the United States as well as internationally. They have written and published three books,Happily Ever After…and 39 Other Myths about Love: Breaking Through to the Relationship of Your Dreams, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last, and Secrets of Great Marriages: Real Stories from Real Couples about Lasting Love.
Their organization, Bloomwork is dedicated to promoting healthy, fulfilling, and successful relationships for individuals, couples and organizations. They have served as psychotherapists, marriage counselors, consultants and seminar leaders since 1975. In addition to their academic and professional training, the Blooms’ expertise in the field of relationships stems from experience in the crucible of their own committed partnership of over 45 years. Their best-selling book, 101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last has been translated into several languages and distributed world-wide. Since its publication in 2004 it has sold over 100,000 copies.
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Linda and Charlie Bloom Books
Happily Ever After...and 39 Other Myths about Love: Breaking Through to the Relationship of Your Dreams
http://www.amazon.com/Happily-After-Other-Myths-about/dp/160868394X?ie=UTF8&keywords=linda%20bloom&qid=1459609565&ref_=sr_1_2&sr=8-2
Secrets of Great Marriages: Real Truth from Real Couples about Lasting Love
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Great-Marriages-Couples-Lasting/dp/1577316789?ie=UTF8&keywords=linda%20bloom&qid=1459609565&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1
101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Wish-Knew-When-Married/dp/1577314247?ie=UTF8&keywords=linda%20bloom&qid=1459609565&ref_=sr_1_3&sr=8-3
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What's Really Going on When We Fall in Love
"Lovers are those for whom no minute is like any other, people between whom nothing habitual takes place, just what is new, unprecedented, unexpected. In such connections there exists an almost unbearable happiness. When we understand our lives correctly, we can slowly grow into such happiness by preparing ourselves for it. When we love, we must not forget that we are beginners, bunglers of life, apprentices in love. We must learn love and that takes calm, patience, and composure."
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Are All the Good Men/Women Already Taken?
Do these 6 things and find out.
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If You Don't Have Something Nice To Say, Maybe You Should Say It Anyway
“A failure to confront is a failure to love.” Scott Peck
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10 Factors That Promote Intimacy
Emotional intimacy is a foundational aspect of all great relationships. The word “intimacy” refers to the experience of being fully seen and comes from the Latin “intimus” meaning innermost. When we share this experience with another, we feel whole, complete, and at one with the world. Yet we often fear that which we most desire, and in the case of emotional intimacy this is all too often the case.
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Are You Just Fighting or Engaging in “Conscious Combat”?
The factor that is most likely to predispose a couple to have an enduring successful relationship is: A. Shared interests in commo B. Ability to avoid or prevent intense emotional conflict C. Ability to manage differences effectively D. Shared political views E. Strong bonds of affection established early in the relationship.
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The Art of Friendship in Marriage
There is an African saying goes like this: A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.
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The Hidden Sources of Attraction
We are attracted to people for many different reasons, some of them conscious, some unconscious. Some of the conscious reasons have to do with how the person looks, how they act, the sound of their voice, the sensation of their touch, and other sensory cues. These are things we can identify and recognize; they are obvious and self-evident. Yet lying below the surface of our conscious awareness are subtle, less apparent factors that contribute to the degree of attractiveness we find in others.
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Before You Give Someone Advice, Try This First
When our kids were growing up I (Charlie) used to get teased a lot by them for being optimistic so much of the time. They used to accuse me of denying the reality of how hard life could sometimes be whenever I would share a hopeful attitude about a difficulty that they were struggling with. It's not that I would deny the difficulty, but rather I often tried to get them to see things from another perspective. I meant well but in retrospect, I can (finally) understand why they were so frustrated with me.
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The Best Therapy Is a Great Relationship
CHARLIE: At its best, psychotherapy creates a warm and understanding relationship through which we face ourselves and our feelings honestly in a way that allows us to heal from past wounds and accept ourselves as we are.
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Better Than Happiness
It may sound strange coming from someone who has written dozens of blogs about happiness and taught a lot of seminars on the subject, to hear that happiness isn’t necessarily all that it’s cracked up to be. Or put another way, in terms of one’s overall quality of life, spirit, and degree of personal fulfillment, some things play a much more significant role than feelings of happiness. I’ll get to that in a minute.
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Has Technology Hijacked Your Quality of Life? Eight steps to getting free.
Unless you’ve been living in a cave since the mid-90’s, it’s probably not news to you that the domination of electronic technology in our lives is growing to a level that not only threatens to do great harm to our overall quality of life, but there is overwhelming evidence that significant damage has already occurred.
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