Interfaith Couples coaching

Are you experiencing challenges as an interfaith couple? Are interfaith differences generating tensions or conflicts that you’re having trouble addressing? Or would you say that you’re doing “OK” but sense that there’s a deeper or richer level that you can enjoy?

Being in a life-long covenantal relationship with another person is one of life’s most challenging and rewarding experiences. This can be even more so when your life-partner is of a different faith or cultural tradition. Planning the wedding ceremony is only the beginning. In addition to the challenges that all couples face, there are ongoing questions about which holidays to celebrate, how, where and with whom, how to welcome and name a new child, how to raise the child, whether and where to affiliate with a spiritual community, how to be present in celebrations that are foreign to you, how to include your beloved in celebrations that are foreign to them.

While these challenges can lead couples to feel more distant from one another, they are also opportunities for emotional and spiritual growth, for opening and deepening your heart connection to your partner. For it is there very background that helped to make them the person with whom you fell in love. And often it is through a deeper connection with your partner’s traditions that leads to a more expansive and compassionate connection with one’s own traditions.

Rabbi Field deeply enjoys working with interfaith couples and brings over 16 years of experience, including his work as a congregational rabbi and hospital chaplain.

Contact Rabbi Brian at 303-320-6185 or rabbibrian@judaismyourway.org

For expectant parents or parents with young children, please also see our current Interfaith Couples Group