Do This Activity to End the Year
Reflection is a necessary part of growth. It enhances meaning from our experiences and highlights our accomplishments. Reflection can event relieve tension and provide closure.
What Traveling Tells Us About Each Other - Part II
After traveling almost 3 weeks abroad with my significant other, I am reflecting on our experience and how traveling can teach us so many things about how we interact with one another.
What Traveling Tells Us About Each Other
After traveling almost 3 weeks abroad with my significant other, I am reflecting on our experience and how traveling can teach us so many things about how we interact with one another.
Rituals of Connection
Throughout our days and busy lives, connecting with our significant others can become much more difficult than we ever expected.
Detecting and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
The term “narcissist" is being thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean?
Coping - The Basics
Commonly we spend our energy trying to avoid or react to these unwanted feelings, thoughts, memories, urges or sensations that we get stuck or life gets worse.
Child Anxiety & Books
Anxiety is a normal part of childhood, but anxiety disorders can cause kids to perform poorly in school, activities and miss out on social experiences.
Your Reality Is Valid
“Well things in my life are pretty bad right now, but others have it way worse, so I shouldn’t be too upset about it.” Sound familiar?
Overcoming Overwhelmed
We’ve all been there. Feeling as if you are being pulled in 20 different relational directions while juggling five sticky life circumstances all the while trying to appear as if you don’t have a care in the world.
INTIMACY: More Than Just Intercourse: Ideas to Invigorate & Intensify the Intimacy in Your Relationship
When you hear intimacy, what’s the first image that comes to mind? Two bodies intertwined between the sheets? Stop-everything moments of soul-gazing?
Intersecting Identities: A Story of Self Within Society
We’ve all been there. Feeling as if you are being pulled in 20 different relational directions while juggling five sticky life circumstances all the while trying to appear as if you don’t have a care in the world.
Take 20: A Pause Button for Checking Yourself in Couples’ Conflict
We’ve all been there. The heat of the moment. The push-all-the-buttons confrontation that makes you want to yell, cry, run and hide (or maybe all the above).
Completely Avoiding Your Toxic Family Members Might be Unhealthy Too - Part II
In the last blog we discussed how to determine if/when it’s necessary to cut off your toxic family members. I want to be sure that it is clear that there are certain circumstances when it might be necessary to call it quits for good.
Does Pre-Marriage Counseling Really Help?
Marriage can be a scary and overwhelming decision, and for good reason. About half of all first marriages end in divorce and that number rises for second marriages and again for third marriages.
Adjusting to change can be hard…
Adjusting to change can be hard. Sometimes we make a personal choice for change, sometimes it happens unexpectedly or out of our control. When we are able to plan for change, the expectations we make of the outcome aren’t always realistic.
The Strongest Man in the World is He who Walks with Others
It’s been years since our culture has taken a turn to a more individualistic one versus one focused on collectivism.
This Practice is Fundamental to Knowing Yourself
The biggest bully is the one who lives inside of us. That bully is quick to judge, be mean and keep you stuck. It’s says things to you like...
What Type of Parent Are You to A Child with Anxiety?
Do you have a child with anxiety? Has your child not wanted to get out of the car for an activity, such as a sport or birthday party? Has your child ever shared he/she is scared to sleep alone?
Gaslighting: What it is and How to Tell if it’s Happening to You
Have you ever felt convinced that you were crazy? Maybe you saw your partner texting his ex (or another persona non grata) right in front of you, then when you confront him, he has deleted the text thread and told you it never happened?
How to Spot a Toxic Relationship
At some point in your life, if you haven’t already, you’ll probably find yourself in a relationship. If you’re lucky, your relationship will positively challenge you, support you, and encourage you – it’s the type of relationship we all strive to have!