The Porsha Principles

The Porsha Principles

A practical guide for creating, nurturing, and living a life of deep connection, emotional safety, and shared love...forever

Remember what it felt like when you and your partner went on your honeymoon? The excitement and the sense of joy and connection? Remember wanting this feeling to last forever?

That's what a lifelong honeymoon is.

A lifelong honeymoon is the experience of continual fulfillment and connection created by doing the things every day that lets you and your partner know that they are affirmed, appreciated, and loved.

It is all about living and relating with your partner in a way that continually recreates, reinforces, and restimulates those cherished emotions over and over again, every day, every week, every month. It is living and connecting in a way that breeds sustainable emotional safety and security.

The Porsha Principles are the product of thousands of hours spent with couples helping them overcome the negativity in their relationships and create lifelong happiness. These eight principles provide the roadmap, but you and your partner have to do the work. It's through applying the principles that you will learn to overcome your unique challenges and create the joy and fulfillment that every relationship deserves.

1: Let them know you...not your representative.

2: Cultivate intimacy...at deeper levels.

3: Lift your partner...every day.

4: Manage the differences...with care and communication.

5: Avoid the fire starters...they can ignite a blaze.

6: Address conflict...resolve disagreements.

7: Repair the ruptures...they can ruin you.

8: Profess, protect, and prioritize the relationship...with your thoughts, words, and actions.

Porsha's ability to work so well with couples in crisis stems from her own personal history. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from University of California at Berkeley, she married her college sweetheart who became a professional basketball player. Yet her life as a pro sports stay-at-home spouse abruptly ended when her husband suffered a sudden and fatal heart attack. Six months prior, her mother lost her battle with cancer at the age of forty-nine. Left with a six-year-old son, and no source of income or support, Porsha went back to school to pursue her passion in psychology and counseling. She graduated at the top of her class and received her Master of Family Therapy degree from Mercer University School of Medicine in Atlanta and is currently a clinical member of the Georgia Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy."Although I did not realize it at the time, it was from these tragedies that my journey as a marriage and family therapist actually began. My life's circumstances provided me both the ability to relate to others' pain, loss and trauma, and more importantly, the realization and confidence that one can heal, restore, and rise again."As a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a former pro sports wife, Porsha began working with professional athletes and their partners. She understood the specific lifestyle challenges athletes and their families face. She has been a featured therapist in Professional Sports Lives Magazine and the Off the Field Player's Wives Association Newsletter.Her success with this elite audience quickly spread to elite levels in other professions, resulting in her working with CEOs, religious leaders, entertainers, and other celebrities. Though no longer offering couples counseling, she left private practice as one of the top marriage therapists in Atlanta.Today, as founder of the Porsha Principles organization and co-author of The Porsha Principals: Creating and Sustaining Your Lifelong Honeymoon, Porsha continues her passion for helping couples create and sustain their lifelong honeymoon. Through her books, videos, workshops, and retreats, she has made her insights and strategies available to anyone who truly desires to do the work involved in creating highly satisfying and enjoyable relationships.After living in California for many years and traveling abroad, Porsha has made Atlanta her home. She loves to travel and learn new things about people. But most of all, she enjoys spending quality time with her adult son, great friends, family, and the man she is creating her lifelong honeymoon with.

Michael is the Managing Director of Leadership Strategies, Inc. - The Facilitation Company, the largest provider of professional facilitators and facilitation training in the U.S. He is considered a national leader in the facilitation industry. •Author of The Secrets of Facilitation, The Secrets to Masterful Meetings, The Executive Guide to Facilitating Strategy, Buying Styles and CLICK: The Virtual Meetings Book•Founding board member of the International Institute for Facilitation•Founder of the FindaFacilitator database, with over 600 facilitators under contract•Named to the International Facilitation Hall of Fame in 2016Michael is a much sought-after facilitator, trainer, and speaker, both in the U.S. and around the globe. He has completed international assignments in Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Helsinki, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Jamaica, London, Melbourne, Milan, Moscow, the Netherlands, Oxford, Saint Petersburg, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Trinidad, Vienna, Warsaw, and Wellington. Past participants have commented that his dynamic presentation style, combined with his unique insights, make for intense, power-packed sessions.Prior to Leadership Strategies, Michael spent six years with ADP and eight years in the information technology practice of Ernst & Young's Manage¬ment Consulting Group. As Chief Operating Officer of the Porsha Principles organization, Michael oversees the team of employees and contractors that help the organization thrive. He is a High Honors graduate from Dartmouth College, has two adult daughters and resides in Atlanta with the woman he is creating his lifelong honeymoon with.