Julie Metzger speaks on Emotion Coaching

Julie shared with us some of John Gottman's ideas on Emotion Coaching. If you had to miss her talk, you can listen to it on the audio player in the right-hand column.

Here is the quote that Julie shared with the group as one of her favorite quotes about family:

It is not so much that things happen in a family; as it is that the family is the things that happen in it. The family is continually becoming what becomes of it. It is every christening and every commencement, every falling in love, every fight, every departure and return. It is the moment at breakfast when for no apparent reason somebody gets up and leaves the table. It is the sound of the phone ringing in the middle of the night or the lying awake hours waiting for it to ring.  It is the waves pounding the boardwalk to pieces and the undercurrents so deep beneath the surface that you're hardly aware of them. A family is a web so delicately woven that it takes almost nothing to set the whole thing shuddering or event to tear it to pieces. Yet the thread it's woven of is as strong as anything on earth.

Frederick Buechner