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Monik Lopez, MS, LMHC, South Miami, FL (2025)

07/02/2025

Men often deeply struggle with emotional intelligence and self-awareness, due to generations of conditioning that there is a weakness in showing vulnerable emotion. As a result, we are taught not to feel certain emotions or even be able to identify them. Men are less likely to seek therapy, therefore receiving a diagnosis, and are also more likely to be the perpetrators of domestic abuse.

Hand to heart. Eyes wide open

go inward.stay true 🤘🏼

04/04/2025

For many men, the struggle to express emotions isn’t a conscious choice—it’s a learned behavior, deeply rooted in their upbringing.

01/06/2025

We are excited to be bringing on some new hours, new services and new clinicians this year! Offices in Coral Gables and Coral Springs, FL, with Virtual sessions available all throughout the state of FL and UT! We specialize in dating/relationships, trauma recovery, energy work, fitness and nutrition. visit inwardtherapy.com to schedule a free 15 min phone call. Insurance Accepted :)

11/21/2024

We have a few spots to join our next healing retreat in beautiful St Augustine beach, FL. Ocean release ceremony, daily yoga, sound bath, 1hr private massage, group processing, cold plunging, organic chef prepared meals. Leave a comment to RSVP!

10/09/2024

Get ready to unwind! Join us at Inward Retreats in St. Augustine, Florida on Friday, Feb 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM. Enjoy a rejuvenating blend of R&R, group work, yoga, sound bath, massage, holistic fresh food, cold plunging, and more! Secure your spot now and embark on a transformative journey within.

08/24/2021

To find safety in the heart of another person is one of the best feelings in the world. To let yourself give someone access to your heart, and to let yourself receive the love that they have to give.

Wait for this.

Don’t give your time and energy away to those who create anxiety, tension, or confusion in you. A safe person feels calm. Always remember that.

Other people and our connections to them have the ability to heal our past pain alongside us. your intuition will let you know. Listen to it.

It’s asking you to question a bit more if there is any sense that you feel this person might just not be right. And this isn’t to say that any warning bell or thought that you have about a person or situation is always correct. Sometimes trauma can make everything feel unsafe.

but that’s why I say that our intuition is asking us to question a bit more. In questioning, you begin to stand for yourself. You begin to share your needs. To make your needs seen and known and in that, you will also see and know who actually is a safe space, and who does not have the space to create safety.

don’t try to force it. don’t argue with someone who doesn’t want or need what you want and need. just let it go. and wait for the people who do.

08/04/2021

Summer of Love week 5:
🤍Create shared meaning
💙Make life dreams come true

“One day I want to see the northern lights” “I would love to have a boat to live and work on full time, while I travel around” “I want a lover and a best friend” “I want a life that is a healthy balance of work and play” “I want multiple streams of income so I can feel more financially free”

These are some examples of my and my partners life dreams, and until meeting each other, we were dreaming of them on our own.

When we choose partners, we are ultimately choosing someone to share in those dreams with. We are choosing someone who understands why these things are so meaningful to us, and who wants to be there to see us realize them.

In the Gottman’s over 30 years of research, they found that couples who had a strong foundation as outlined in “The Sound Relationship House” were happiest, and maintained that happiness over time. In the past five weeks I have outlined the main principles of the sound relationship house. This begins from the time we first meet and evolves over the course of the relationship. Last week we explored managing conflict, one of the most important aspects that will either make or break a relationship. Right at the top sits the two that I am writing about today…

This final exercise is to sit down with your partner and share your life dreams with one another. These dreams do not necessarily have to include your partner in them, but the important piece is to express why these dreams you have for yourself and your life are so meaningful. How do you see yourself? How do you feel in that vision? What’s stopped you from seeing that dream come alive? What does “balance” or “lover and best friend” even mean to us?

If we are in support of our partners, the growth and expansion of ourselves, our partners and our relationship should fire us up! How can you continue to support life dreams and create shared meaning in your own relationship? Come up with some action steps to be in support of one another and as always, have fun lovers!

07/21/2021

Summer of Love week 4:
The Positive Perspective 💛
Manage Conflict 💚

Ever noticed all of the things someone can do to irritate you? How about when you get into conflict? Is it easier for you to notice what the other person did? Depending on the extent of how often this happens, getting into this headspace can be very destructive to a relationship.

Maintaining positive perspective will require both partners to make consistent efforts to notice what the other is doing right, rather than what they are doing wrong or what they did not do. Despite our moods, despite our differences. This positive perspective is built using the tools from the last three weeks of posts that we have already covered.

This looks like:
Acknowledging and Appreciating
Noticing their good qualities
Giving the benefit of the doubt
Small things often

Doing so allows easier transition into the next piece, which is managing conflict. It’s really easy to get into defensiveness, shut down, and contemptuous language when we feel like our partner is the enemy. We need to consistently have reminders throughout our days that we are on the same team, working together, for the good of ourselves as individuals and the safety and security of the relationship.

The Gottman‘s use the word “managing“ rather than resolving, because conflict is inevitable in every relationship. There are some issues that will never be resolved, and this is normal. We need to learn to manage our responses to one another and not get into negative cycles overtime, leading to complete breakdown of the relationship.

This weeks activity:
Have a conflict discussion. Yes, bring up a perpetual issue in the relationship and take turns expressing your unresolved feelings about it. Do not speak while your partner shares. Within this conversation, you are to make efforts to accept your partners influence. Meaning, saying things such as “I get why that’s upsetting to you” “I understand why you felt that way” or “I agree, I could have handled that differently”. Do not defend your side at all during your partners sharing. Once your partner feels like they are complete and understood, switch sides. Have fun lovers!

07/08/2021

Summer of Love week 3:
Turning towards instead of away 🧡

This week is about making bids for connection. This happens not only in the day to day, but also during conflict when it’s most challenging to turn towards our partners. The majority of conflict actually comes from missed bids for connection, turning away from each other or worse, turning against.

Turing towards takes various forms… a kiss good morning, showing interest when our partner is talking about something that might not interest us at all, making a cup of coffee just the way they like it, putting down the phone when with each other, doing an activity of our partners choosing, or even just a simple physical touch when we are in disagreement.

This is opposite from turning away which looks like not answering or acknowledging when they speak to us, leaving without saying goodbye, or a literal turn away like turning our back to our partner. The more aggressive form, turning against, can look like “oh, what now?”, an eye roll when a need is expressed, or dismissing the others need completely with a “that’s your problem, not mine”.

This weeks exercise is to actively practice turning towards each other’s bids for connection. A bid is anytime your partner tries to engage and connect with you, either verbally or physically.

This weeks exercise:
- Plan one activity each that the other partner will happily do

- Greet each other or leave each other with a “6 second kiss”

The 6-second kiss is a Gottman exercise to re-ignite the physical connection you once shared. In 6 seconds you’re not just saying a quick hi or bye, you’re feeling each other’s lips, you’re tasting each other, feeling the energy of each other’s bodies connected 🔥

Let’s get it going! Have fun, lovers!

07/06/2021

on the road to improving your life
there is a transition,
between getting in your own way and you, making new choices.

have grace and patience for yourself during this time. it’s all part of the process of transformation.

if it was easy, we’d all be perfect and have s**t figured out by now. just let the knowing where you want to be guide your heart.

07/02/2021

Summer of Love week 2:
Share Fondness and Admiration 💜

Remember the honeymoon stage? When you first were getting to know your partner and everything they did was great? The way they smiled, the jokes they told, the s*x, the nice little things they did? And man, were you sweet to them. Always saying thank you and talking about them to your friends….

A lot of the time, this stuff fades the longer we are together. But in the master couples, as research by the Gottman Institute, this stuff is still very alive and present.

This weeks exercise to do with your partner: schedule a time that the two of you can have some uninterrupted conversation. Take turns telling the story from your perspective about how the two of you fell in love. Take notes about specific things your partner says about what they loved most about those times. Write down a few things you can make efforts to incorporate this week into your daily routine that will make your partner feel loved and appreciated by you.

The Gottman Institute observed a ratio of 20:1 positive to negative interactions in the master couples daily routine together. If this feels like a lot for you, It might be just the week for you to start putting it into practice! Have fun, lovers 🔥

06/26/2021

share your energy with those who love being in your presence
not those who only feel you in your absence

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