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Relationship Therapy

A Traverse City couple will use Jewish mysticism to
strengthen couples.

MEGAN SWOYER SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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an relationship and mari-
tal therapy be fun and en-
joyable? And is a relaxing
atmosphere for a couple's
counseling sessions too much to
ask? Perhaps not.
Dr. Sally Littleton and her hus-
band, Mickey Fivenson, owners
of Traverse City-based Conscious
Hearts, are offering a two-day cou-
ples workshop in Michigan's
splendid northlands called "Love
Yourself, Heal Your Life."
"We took classes [in San Diego,
Calif] to certify for this particular
seminar and adapted them to fo-
cus on the couple relationship,"
explained Dr. Littleton. The psy- Dr. Littleton and Mr. Fivenson
chotherapist, who once practiced
in the metro Detroit area, believes Anti-Defamation League.
The two fell deeply in love. "Im-
that her need to help people is in
mediately,"
recalled Mr. Fivenson,
her blood. 'Throughout my life I
was a helper. Even as a child, peo- who was a single parent at the
time with two children Maybe it's
ple turned to me," she said.
'We'll be working with couples that "opposites attract" theory.
who have lost communications, "Mickey, who's a great harmoni-
stopped caring about each other ca player, is so athletic. He runs
and feel they still want to work on marathons and everything," said
their relationship," said Mr. Fiven- Dr. Littleton. "I do yoga."
So how can someone who's an
son. He stresses that the work-
shop, to be held June 7-8 at the expert in the food-equipment busi-
Shanty Creek resort near Bellaire, ness counsel distressed couples?
is for any two people in a rela- 'Td already led some groups very
tionship. "They don't have to be similar to this," explained Mr.
Fivenson. "Marriage Encounter,
married," he said.
the
Beginning Experience Group
Dr. Littleton, 44, has been
working with family dynamics for divorced people or those who've
since 1975 and started a private lost a spouse through death. This
practice in 1980 in Birmingham just seems to fit for me."
The couple will focus their first-
and Rochester. She's been a psy-
chotherapist in Traverse City for ever "Love Yourself, Heal Your
Life" workshop on several key con-
the last seven years.
This workshop was inspired by cepts. Any sharing that occurs will
her day-to-day experience as a be done mostly by each couple.
psychotherapist and her recogni- "There's some group sharing, but
tion of the need to create an in- the most intense sharing is pri-
tensive getaway-type atmosphere. vate," explained Mr. Fivenson.
"I've been working with rela- The facilitators use meditation to
tionships for many years and I re- help participants focus and "get
alized that there are so many centered," he said.
Participants also will learn
people who need help. It's not pos-
about
the beliefs of Louise Hay, an
sible to always do it in a therapy
setting," explained Dr. Littleton. internationally recognized coun-
"Sometimes they [couples] want selor, teacher and best-selling au-
to work on it but don't have the thor of You Can Heal Your Life.
`There are two things that set
time or energy. Or sometimes
they don't recognize concerns un- Louise apart," said Dr. Littleton.
"First are our thoughts, feelings
til they proceed with a divorce.
You need tools to cope [with a re- and beliefs about ourselves. You
lationship breakdown] before that have to heal any wounds to have
a really healthy relationship," she
happens," she said.
explained.
Originally from Traverse City,
"And then there's Louise's spir-
the 55-year-old Mr. Fivenson is a
ituality.
She's involved with a spir-
former owner of a food equipment
company. He met Dr. Littleton itual connection and we recognize
through a single parents group that as the same basic ideas of Ka-
that he launched in the Traverse ballah," Jewish mystical tradition.
Dr. Littleton applies some of
City area. "She [Dr. Littleton] was
one of my guest speakers," re- Kaballah to her own beliefs. "We
called Mr. Fivenson, who held have blocks that keep us from re-
that meeting at Temple Beth El ceiving the light, which is God.
in Traverse City. Mr. Fivenson is Those blocks cause us to have bad
also on the regional board of the experiences," she explained. One
who's enjoyed a relatively strong