Parenting While Committed

Let us help you and your partner reconnect and set priorities at our February 9th and 10th virtual Clarity and Connection Collaborative!

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Join us February 9th and 10th for our Clarity and Connection Collaborative! Sign up today at www.parentingwhilecommitted.com.

After one week of intentional focus on your relationship, it is important to take time to reflect on what you noticed. Which connection activity made you feel the most connected to your partner? Which one did your partner seem to enjoy the most? Which created new insight and understanding about the relationship? Which were the most challenging for you? Why?

Sustaining connection in relationships takes more than a week. Take the momentum and insights you and partner gained over the last week to create recurring acts of connection. Choose one of the activities from the past week and make efforts to complete it at least one day of week for the next two weeks. At the end, take time to reflect on the impact it had on your relationship and how to sustain what brings you closer to your partner.

If you want to learn additional ways to strengthen connection and/or if it was difficult to complete the Week of Connection, join our upcoming Collaboratives. Collaboratives invites couples to learn more about how each partner functions in the relationships and explores areas of gaps and alignment that are supporting or hindering the relationship.

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It is important to dream with your partner. Imagining your future together helps you to increase intimacy, connection, and understanding. Talking about your dreams can create a foundation for developing shared goals.

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Small gifts can bring moments of joy to your partner, you, and the relational connection. Make time today to communicate that you are thinking about your partner by giving them a small gift. Choose something with meaning to your relationship, such as a personalized note that expresses how you feel. Your partner’s favorite flowers or a stuffed animal. Perhaps a game to play together, a funny video message, or their favorite sweet treat. Small gestures fuel long-term relationships.

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Quality time with your partner is important.
When life gets busy and you and your partner have conflicting obligations, such as parenting, work, and family demands, it is easy to forget to prioritize the relationship. One-on-one time with your partner is vital to maintaining intimacy, love, and closeness.

Activities with your partner can include; sitting down to a meal together, watching a movie after your children go to bed, going on a date night, a bike ride, or working out together at the gym.

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Small reminders that we care about our partner and are thinking about them during the day fosters connection and intimacy. It gives your partner a sense that you are on the same team and you are considering their needs.

Helpful tasks can include: making a meal, bringing a cup of coffee, making your child's lunch, washing your partner's car, taking over a task your partner typically does in the home, or calling someone to get an item repaired.

Let us know what you did to help your partner today.

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Whether you have been in a relationship with your partner for one week or 20 years, there's always more to learn about one another.

Take the time to discuss one question you've been wondering or want to learn about your partner.

Take time to deeply explore one meaningful question. Listen with attention and check that you understand your partner's response.

Ensure you find time to have this discussion without electronic devices and minimize interruptions.

Whether you have been in a relationship with your partner for one week or 20 years, there's always more to learn about one another.

Take the time to discuss one question you've been wondering or want to learn about your partner.

Take time to deeply explore one meaningful question. Listen with attention and check that you understand your partner's response.

Ensure you find time to have this discussion without electronic devices and minimize interruptions.

Believe it or not, couples sometimes go about the day without meaningfully connecting to their partner in a physical way.

While the daily kiss or hug to say good morning or good night is important, it can sometimes become an action of habit.

Today we invite you to choose an intentional way to physically connect with your partner for at least 10 minutes without interruption.

Take a walk holding hands
Dance in the kitchen to your favorite song
Give each other a massage
Play the game twister
Cuddle on the couch




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When life gets busy, it becomes easy to miss out on communicating with your partner beyond day-to-day tasks.

Make intentional time today to share:

One action or characteristic you appreciate about your partner

One task you need support with from your partner in the coming week

One memory of joy and connection you have experienced with your partner

Ask your partner to share these things with you as well. Creating a rhythm to share these types of things with our partner on a regular basis can reinforce connection in the midst of life’s daily activities.





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We often think love is most expressed by grand gestures and how we acknowledge big occasions like birthdays and anniversaries with one’s partner. While performing grand romantic gestures like expensive gifts and fancy meals can express love, long-term relationships are sustained by the doing the little things that matter most to our partner. Don't underestimate small, everyday acts of caring such as sincere words of love and support that fuel connection and well-being in relationships.

Follow over the next week as share ways to connect with your partner every day.

Follow us for a Week of Connection to start your new year more engaged and connected with your partner.

Our relationships with others bring us comfort, belonging, and a sense or worth. Relationships can improve our mood and our health. Relationships with others teach us from a young age how to navigate difficult times, regulate our emotions, and provide safety.

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The Clarity & Connection Collaborative is on February 9th & 10th.

Our Partner Retreat is on April 12th, 13th, & 14th.

Most couples report less relationship satisfaction once they become parents. Research indicates this decrease can last up to three years after children are added to the family. The additional demands of parenting results in increased conflict that leads to disconnection in the intimate partner relationship. When this disconnection is not addressed, the impact jeopardizes the sustainability of the relationship.

Parenting While Committed partners with couples at the intersection of the partner and parenting relationship to help them realign with values and priorities in a manner that restores connection.

Parenting While Committed offers unique strength-based services to renew connection and partnership for committed partners as they navigate parenting.

As a result of our services,
couples gain clarity about parenting and partner beliefs for one another,
learn how to communicate with curiosity and without judgment,
and learn ways to sustain progress after they complete services.

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Relationships grow and thrive when there is clarity about individual and collective values and goals. Connection is strengthened when intentional time is created to reassess and identify areas of alignment and incongruence.

Meet our co-founder, Dr. Garica Sanford - Licensed Psychologist

Trained as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Sanford has over a decade of clinical experience providing therapy and assessment services to children, couples and families. Specializing in interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral theories, complex trauma, complicated familial systems, and emotionally focused couples therapy, she uses an integrative and culturally relevant approach with clients. She partners with clients to increase insight, attunement, and self-compassion as they seek understanding and transformation that deepens relational connection.

Dr. Sanford’s journey to establish rhythms that honor her professional and personal passions led her to understand the importance of being intentional in how we show up within our different roles and relationships. Collaboration, self-reflection, and continuous learning are foundational aspects of her practice as a leader, licensed psychologist, executive coach and mother.

Click the link in our bio or visit www.parentingwhilecommitted.com to learn more about how we collaborate with individuals, couples, and families.

Dr. Wise has more than a decade of experience in helping individuals, couples, and families. Years of navigating the same parenting, partnership, work, and social demands her clients faced led Dr. Wise to imagine novel approaches to life and relationships and having a collaborative and systemic posture with her clients.

Dr. Wise’s previous roles in research, conducting psychological evaluations, and working with families who have experienced trauma strengthened her understanding of how to effectively assess the family experience and implement tools to provide clear feedback for clients. Dr. Wise supports clients with using these insights to recreate narratives about themselves, their relationship, and their family to foster sustainable change.

Parenting While Committed offers unique strength-based services to renew connection and partnership for committed partners as they navigate parenting.

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✨We are Live!✨

We are SO excited to announce the official launch of and our new website! Click the link in our bio or visit www.parentingwhilecommitted.com to learn more about the unique services available for couples and families, as well as information about the talented co-founders of PWC, Dr. Garica Sanford - Licensed Psychologist and Dr. Wise!

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We are officially launching November 1st! Make sure you follow us and like our page to learn more about and tag a couple you know!

Dr. Garica Sanford - Licensed Psychologist
Dr. Wise