Mary Kay Cocharo, MFT

01/01/2026

Happy New Year! ✨

Wishing you a year filled with connection, growth, gentleness, and moments that feel truly nourishing. May 2026 bring clarity, comfort, and meaningful love with yourself and with those you cherish. 💛

12/29/2025

A New Year is a wonderful time to recommit to love, communication, and deeper connection. 💛

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12/27/2025

✨ New Year, Better Balance! ✨

As we are about to step into a new year, it’s a wonderful time to reflect on what truly matters and how we want to feel in our lives. In this article, I share the Life Balance Wheel, a powerful, simple tool to help you look at the key areas of your life, see where you feel fulfilled, and notice where you may want more support, intention, or energy.

🌿 Small, thoughtful shifts can create meaningful change.
🌟 Greater balance brings more peace, connection, and joy.

If you’re ready to start the year with clarity and purpose, I’d love for you to read it:
👉 https://www.mkcocharo.com/balance-your-life-in-the-new-year/

Looking to balance your life in the New Year? This blog introduces The Life Balance Wheel, a tool to help you assess and improve different areas of your life for greater harmony and fulfillment.

12/25/2025

Happy Holidays! ✨

This season can bring joy, love, reflection, and sometimes a bit of overwhelm. However you’re feeling, may you find moments of calm, connection, and compassion for yourself and others.

Wishing you peace, warmth, and meaningful togetherness. 💖

12/18/2025

Feeling rushed? 💭
What if what we need most in our relationships isn’t more tools—but more presence?

In my new article on Imago Relationships North America, I explore how bringing a little hygge into your home—cozy moments, slowing down, and soft attention—can deepen connection and emotional intimacy. 🕯️💛

Read here:
https://blog.imagorelationshipswork.com/how-hygge-strengthens-relationships-a-therapists-guide-to-slowing-down-connection-and-imago-relationship-principles

Discover how hygge can strengthen your relationship by slowing down, creating emotional safety, and deepening connection. A therapist’s guide inspired by Imago Relationship principles.

12/15/2025

The best gifts aren’t things, they’re moments of connection. 💛

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12/10/2025

What’s the #1 challenge you face during the holidays? Pressure to spend, overeat or drink, feeling obliged to be social and chipper, or trying to live up to big expectations?

Holiday expectations can be heavy. But there are ways to reclaim the season without the stress.

Here are ten tips to help you sail through this holiday season, full of calm, compassion, and self-care: https://www.mkcocharo.com/10-tips-to-help-you-sail-through-this-holiday-season/

✨ What tip do you think would help you most?

Get ready for the holiday season with these 10 simple tips! Whether you love or dread the festivities, this blog will help you navigate the stress and make the most of the season.

12/05/2025

Feeling the holiday pressure? If this season brings up stress, loneliness, or old expectations, you’re not alone. 💛

Give yourself permission to slow down, set boundaries, and create the moments that feel right for you. 🌿

A little compassion goes a long way. ✨

Dive deeper on the blog:

The holidays provide for perhaps one of the most joyful and yet the most stressful times of the year. The season affords each of us an opportunity to reflect on the special meaning of the holidays whether related to personal relationship, family, or religion. What are some things with which we must....

12/03/2025

✨ It’s the gift-giving season… and what better gift than deeper connection? ✨

My Connect-Communicate-Create Card Deck is the perfect present for partners who want to slow down, talk more, laugh more, and feel closer—especially during the busy holiday season.

Born from my love of helping couples strengthen their relationships, this deck offers simple, meaningful prompts that spark curiosity, emotional intimacy, and heartfelt conversations. 💛

Whether you’re gifting it to your partner, your favorite couple, or tucking it into a holiday stocking, it’s a gift that brings joy long after the wrapping paper is gone.

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11/27/2025

🍁 Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁

As we enter this season of gratitude, my heart is full. I am so deeply grateful for my friends, clients, and colleagues for your support, your trust, and your encouragement throughout the year. You inspire me every day.

I’m holding close this beautiful reminder from Abraham Hicks:

“Start a new game that says what I like most about this is… and my favorite thing about my house is… and my favorite thing about my work is… and my favorite thing about my mate is… and my favorite thing about my body is…”

What a powerful practice, to focus on what we love and let appreciation guide us.

This Thanksgiving, I invite you to pause and reflect:

✨ What is your favorite thing about this moment?
✨ Who are you grateful for today?

Wishing you a warm and joyful holiday.

11/18/2025

Being in nature restores my well-being. 🌿✨

There’s something about stepping outside—feeling the air on my skin, hearing the rustle of leaves, noticing the simple beauty around me—that brings me back to myself.

In a world that moves quickly, these small pauses in nature remind us to breathe, soften, and reconnect with what truly matters.

What helps you reconnect? 🌱

11/14/2025

In a past article of mine, I shared how powerful it can be to simply pause during the holiday season — to slow down, look around, and let gratitude take the lead.

The time between Halloween and New Year’s Day offers us the possibility of deep joy and connection with family and friends… but it can also bring stress, pressure, and moments of feeling overwhelmed. What then are the practices we can engage in that will bring us more joy and less stress?

In this post, I revisit that gentle reminder to be present, savor what’s here, and let gratitude open the door to more ease, meaning, and connection.

📖 Read more here ➤ https://www.mkcocharo.com/stop-look-and-enjoy-this-holiday-season-with-gratitude/

What’s one moment you’re choosing to truly see and appreciate this holiday season?

“In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.” ~ David Steindl-Rast The time between Halloween and New Year’s Day offers us the possibility of joy and connection to family and friends, as well as the possibility for stress, an...