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Amy Schoen

Certified Professional Life Coach, Heartmind Connection Coaching

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Amy Schoen, MBA, CPCC is a certified professional life coach and nationally recognized dating and relationship expert who specializes in helping singles to discover what they need and want in relationships and how to attract their desired romantic partner. She also works with couples to help them create the relationship of their dreams. Her whole life approach coaching enables her clients to find greater happiness and satisfaction in their lives overall. Many of her clients have been successful at finding their life partner and reaching their business and career goals. Entrepreneur.com highlighted Ms. Schoen as the dating coach for entrepreneurs. Coach Amy has been featured several times in the Washington Post, as well as interviewed on major radio and TV stations. She resides in Rockville, MD with her husband Alan and son Andrew.

Amy is the author of “Motivated to Marry®- Now there is a Better Method to Dating and Relationships!” and “Get It Right This Time™- Find and Keep Your Ideal Romantic Relationship”. She speaks regularly to professional and social groups and is a member of the National Speakers Association. She writes a regular blog-column on dating and relationships for <a>www.mylifecompass.com</a>, a website that features highly respected coaches nationwide as well as her own blog, www.motivatedtomarryblog.com. Amy offers down to earth tips and helpful hints on dating and relationships in her popular complimentary monthly ezine and through her free monthly tele-classes at <a>www.heartmindconnection.com</a>.

Recently, Amy was featured in the Washington Post and the Washington Examiner as one of DC area’s top relationship coach. She has been on the Fine Living Network, News Channel 8, and many top radio shows as an expert on romance and relationships.

In addition, Amy has created <a>www.DCDatingInfo.com</a> as an informational resource to help singles and dating couples in the DC area. Amy, her husband Alan and son Andrew live in Rockville, Maryland.

Family Issues for Singles During the Holidays

Relationship expert Amy Schoen discusses how to survive the holidays as a single including family issues for singles during the holidays.

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Amy Schoen: My name is Amy Schoen and we are going to talk about how to survive the holidays as a single. The topic we are going to discuss is family issues. Singles generally feel their family abuse them. When they come home for the holidays, there descend to my experience that they may be not grown up enough because they are single. Or there might be some judgmental like holier-than-thou kind of from aunt married kind of saying, "Oh! you know I don't know why she is not married, you know she should be married". There is some pressure going on that someone should be married by a certain age. Or you might hear a little whisper that says "Oh! I know why she is not married?

" You know because she can't keep a nice home or she does not know how to cook or any of those judgmental kind of, comments that may come out. So you have to be careful of those things and you have to learn how to make a barrier against those or you have to be able to just let it roll off your shoulders. What else you are uncomfortable about being single during the holidays? You might have younger siblings who are married and have with families. So you feel like you are behind the curve, you are not, you should already have that. So it can be very uncomfortable for you in that way too. Singles can do so many things to help themselves and embrace being single. First of all, you really need to just look at your talents and what you have to offer? Everyone has some special talents and abilities that make them unique. And if you focus on that, the positive part of who you are, then it makes it much easier to embrace being single. And to embrace that this is a time in your life you are learning and you are growing to be who you are and that when it is ready you are going to meet that special person. So being single during the holidays doesn't have to be a hard thing when you back to your family. It is just about communicating with them, how it is for you to be single. Until then, tell them how you do you want to be treated by them.

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