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Nobody decides
to fall out ofcloseness.

It happens in a thousand small moments that never got said.

A daily ten-minute ritual for couples who want to stay close. Not a check-in. Not a conversation about what's wrong. Just a way back to each other, every day.

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It's Connection Time, a book by Rick Reynolds
If this is you

You still love them.
You just miss them.

You share a home. A calendar. A last name. You are good at the logistics of a life together. Who is picking up the kids. What is for dinner. What the weekend holds.

But somewhere along the way, the talking got smaller. The conversation that used to run for hours became a list of things to handle. You can sit right next to each other and feel a strange distance, like two people living parallel lives under one roof.

Nobody chose it. It just crept in while you were busy living.

Here is the good news, and I have watched it be true for couple after couple. The drift is made of small things. And small things are reversible. The closeness is not gone. It is just untended. And it does not take a grand gesture to bring it back. It takes ten minutes a day, on purpose.

What the book gives you

A simple practice you can start tonight.

  • Catch the small hurts before they harden. Clear the little things daily, so nothing gets stored up to explode later.
  • Turn a fight into a moment of honesty. Small shifts in language that open connection instead of triggering defense.
  • Understand why you keep having the same argument. See the dance the two of you fall into, and how to step out of it.
  • Know what to do when the words stop working. A simple way to move out of your head and into the body when talking makes it worse.
  • Prepare for the hard seasons before they arrive. Family visits, money, grief. Five minutes of planning that saves days of disconnection.
  • Find your way back after you have blown it. Because every couple ruptures. The ones who last are simply the ones who repair.

You will not stay close by accident. But the choosing is small. A little, every day, on purpose.

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A Free Chapter

Read the heart of the book before anyone else. The daily ritual, laid out step by step, yours to try tonight.

A Guided Meditation

A short companion practice to help the two of you arrive, soften, and come back to each other before you begin.

Rick Reynolds
About the author

Rick Reynolds

Soul Coach · Clinical Hypnotherapist · Sedona, Arizona

I came to this work the long way around. I spent nearly twenty years in television news before a quiet question, asked in the middle of a breathwork session, sent me toward Sedona for good.

Since then I have sat with thousands of people at the most pivotal moments of their lives, and with hundreds of couples in the hardest and most tender moments of theirs. What I kept seeing was the pattern. The same cycles, over and over, no matter the couple, no matter the story.

Connection Time grew right out of that work. It was not invented at a desk. It surfaced, again and again, from inside real sessions with real couples doing the brave work of staying close.

Rick

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Carrying it alone?

Drop the Rope

It's Connection Time is for two people ready to do the work together. But if you are carrying this alone, if your partner would never pick up a book like this, there is a book written just for you. It is about the change one person can make, by themselves, and how often that changes everything.

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Stay close on purpose.A little at a time.

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