Katherine Woodward Thomas: Conscious Uncoupling
OMTIMES: When is the best time for someone to do the Conscious Uncoupling process?
Katherine Woodward Thomas: The Conscious Uncoupling program is for anyone who has a sincere desire to move through a breakup with integrity, truth, goodness and honor. So whether you’re in the midst of a breakup right now, recovering from one that happened a while ago, or contemplating the possibility of one in your future, the program will support you complete that union in a way that leaves your heart expanded, enhanced and free to love and be loved with someone new.
OMTIMES: Is this approach something that both people need to participate in, or is it something an individual can do?
Katherine Woodward Thomas: You can do a Conscious Uncoupling process with or without your former partner. The benefit of doing it together is that it will help you to separate in a way that creates safety, cohesion and containment that’s uncharacteristic of a typical breakup, and which will be particularly valuable if there are children involved.
Yet it really only takes one person to have a Conscious Uncoupling. Your ability to use the breakup as a catalyst for your profound awakening does not rest in the hands of your former partner, and truthfully, most people do the program alone to help facilitate the healing of their heart and ensure that they maximize the opportunity for growth that this experience is providing.
OMTIMES: Given all that we’ve discussed here today, do you have any closing thoughts on Conscious Uncoupling for our readers?
Katherine Woodward Thomas: Futurist Buckminster Fuller once said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Most of us know that the ways we’ve been ending our unions leave much to be desired. And anyone who has ever been through the Family Court system knows that the legal process of separation leaves much to be desired. Yet, Conscious Uncoupling is not about how we can fix an old, ailing system, as much as it’s about building a new one. One that empowers us to have healthier, wiser and even happier endings that honor the love once shared.
