David Phillips - Energetic Awakenings

04/26/2026

The relationship you have right now isn't the ceiling.

It's just where you are without the proper tools.

04/26/2026

Two people can be in the same house every day and still be completely unreachable to each other.

That's disconnection. And it has nothing to do with how much you love each other.

04/24/2026

Most people wait until they're in crisis to ask for help with their relationship.

But the couples who do the best work aren't the ones who waited:
They're the ones who decided the relationship was worth investing in before it demanded it.

Cleveland, June 26-28. From $895/couple. Seats are limited.

https://energeticawakenings.com/couplesretreat/

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY! Getting the Love You Want is an internationally recognized workshop designed to connect, refresh, & restore the love & connection within your relationship. Facilitators David deBardelaben-Phillips & Clare Carr are drawing upon Imago Relationship Therapy, founded by Harv...

04/24/2026

Some weeks I post frameworks. Tools. Things you can apply.

And then some weeks I just share what's been sitting with me — things said in session, things that kept coming up in conversations, things that felt too true not to put into words.

This is one of those weeks. Swipe through — something in here might be exactly what you needed to read today.

04/23/2026

The distance that builds between parents isn't usually dramatic.

It's a thousand small moments where you chose exhaustion over connection.
There was nothing left to give.

Cleveland, June 26-28 — two and a half days to actually work on you two.
https://energeticawakenings.com/couplesretreat/

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY! Getting the Love You Want is an internationally recognized workshop designed to connect, refresh, & restore the love & connection within your relationship. Facilitators David deBardelaben-Phillips & Clare Carr are drawing upon Imago Relationship Therapy, founded by Harv...

04/22/2026

Intimacy doesn't disappear overnight.

It erodes. Slowly.

Every time connection gets postponed because life felt more urgent.

Until one day urgent is all there is.

04/22/2026

Are you ready to level up your relationship? Join Clare and me for a wonderful weekend of growth and learning to take your relationship to the next level. https://energeticawakenings.com/couplesretreat/

04/21/2026

The thoughts that keep us stuck in our relationships don't feel like lies.

They feel like truth. They feel like pattern recognition. They feel like wisdom earned from years of trying and being disappointed.

"We're just too different." "I'm the only one trying." "Maybe we're just not right for each other."

I've heard every single one of these in my office. And almost every time, what's underneath them isn't incompatibility — it's two people who ran out of tools before they ran out of love.

The story you tell yourself about your relationship becomes the ceiling of what's possible in it. These reframes aren't toxic positivity. They're more accurate.

Cleveland workshop, June 26-28 — this is exactly the kind of work we do in the room together: https://energeticawakenings.com/couplesretreat/

04/21/2026

Parenting does something quietly destructive to a lot of relationships:

It gives you a shared mission so consuming that you forget you're also partners.

You become incredible teammates, yet almost total strangers.

The kids are fine. You two need attention now.

04/20/2026

Most couples don't hit a wall because they stopped loving each other...

They hit a wall because they started running on empty at the same time.

Different jobs. Different stress. Kids who need everything from both of you.

And suddenly the person you most need to connect with is the last one you have energy for.

That's what we work on. Cleveland, June 26-28: https://energeticawakenings.com/couplesretreat/

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY! Getting the Love You Want is an internationally recognized workshop designed to connect, refresh, & restore the love & connection within your relationship. Facilitators David deBardelaben-Phillips & Clare Carr are drawing upon Imago Relationship Therapy, founded by Harv...

04/19/2026

You can love someone deeply and still make them feel completely alone.

Not because you don't care...

Because your nervous system learned to protect itself in ways that look like indifference.

Thats the work: learning to recognize the pattern together — so instead of reacting to what it looks like, you can respond to what it actually is.

That's where couples start to turn it around.

04/18/2026

pssst...

if your relationship feels harder than it used to —
you probably haven't broken anything.

you've just hit the part that requires real work instead of momentum.
that's not the end. that's the beginning of something different.

Learn more about the work we do: https://energeticawakenings.com/couplesretreat/

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER TODAY! Getting the Love You Want is an internationally recognized workshop designed to connect, refresh, & restore the love & connection within your relationship. Facilitators David deBardelaben-Phillips & Clare Carr are drawing upon Imago Relationship Therapy, founded by Harv...