Marriage Counseling Coach Advises: “Hoodie-Hoo Day Is the Perfect Time to Get Rid of Old Emotional Baggage!”

What is marriage counseling expert Nancy Wasson’s Hoodie-Hoo Day advice for couples? “Use this little-known holiday on February 20th to do some relationship housecleaning.”

Birmingham, AL (PRWEB) February 13, 2006 -- Marriage counseling coach Nancy Wasson has advice for couples about upcoming Hoodie-Hoo Day on February 20th. “It’s a perfect time to toss some emotional baggage overboard and invite new energy into your relationship.”

The little-known Hoodie-Hoo Day is celebrated annually to chase away winter and bring in spring. “This holiday is a chance to have fun,” Wasson says. “At noon, you’re supposed to go outside, wave your hands over your head, and chant ‘Hoodie-Hoo!’ It’s a way to express that you’re tired of winter and want spring to hurry up and come.”

According to Wasson, every relationship gets bogged down with extra baggage that needs discarding periodically, and Hoodie-Hoo Day provides the perfect opportunity to do some pre-spring emotional housecleaning.

“If your relationship closets are filled to overflowing with anger and bitterness, for example, there’s no room for anything else. You have to clear out the old and familiar before you have room for the new and different.”

Wasson offers seven questions that spouses can ask themselves to find out what they need to discard so that their relationship can feel less weighty:

1.   Are you the relationship historian who can recite all your partner’s past mistakes without missing a single one?
2.   Do you hold on to grudges and resentments and “keep score” in your relationship?
3.   Do you focus on your partner’s faults?
4.   Are you critical of your partner to family and friends?
5.   Do you always have to be “right”?
6.   Do you ever attempt to get even for perceived slights?
7.   Do you tell “little white lies” or “fudge” on the truth and then have to remember what you’ve said or not said?

Wasson advises spouses who answer “yes” to any of these questions to consider getting rid of these relationship-destroying behaviors that drain energy. “Instead,” she says, “make space for the good things that you want to come into your relationship such as forgiveness, honesty, tolerance, laughter, intimacy, and joy.”

Wasson’s final advice to couples concerning Hoodie-Hoo Day is to “Let your relationship be energized by your new ‘lightness of being’ and positive approach. Out with the old and in with the new. Let the day be a reminder to shed what isn’t helping your marriage and prepare the way for a more satisfying relationship.”

Marriage counseling coach Nancy Wasson, Ph.D., has been a Licensed Professional Counselor for more than twenty years. She coaches couples in unhappy marriages and provides immediate help through the privacy of telephone and email consultations. Wasson is the co-author of “Keep Your Marriage: What to Do When Your Spouse Says ‘I Don’t Love You Anymore!’” She offers a free weekly marriage advice newsletter at www.KeepYourMarriage.com.

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