How to Complain Without Hurting Your Partner… or Your Relationship

How to Complain Without Hurting Your Partner… or Your Relationship

If only every couple knew this. It’s the strategy employed by married people who, 25 years later, still can’t get enough of each other.  It’s knowing how to express how you feel without hurting your partner’s feelings or immediately putting them on the defense. ...
How to Manage Stress and Anxiety

How to Manage Stress and Anxiety

The past few years have been a lot. The uncertainty. Inflation. Politics. That underlying thought of, what’s next?  Balancing all of that, PLUS daily life. Let’s just say, if you searched “how to handle stress,” or “how to stop a panic attack,” you’re definitely not...
Teen Mental Health: How to Know When Your Teen Needs Help

Teen Mental Health: How to Know When Your Teen Needs Help

Here’s something you’ve said or thought, probably more than once:  I’m so glad I’m not a teenager in today’s world—I’m so glad social media wasn’t around when I was a teen! Yet, if you’re a parent of a teen you likely still feel some of what they’re feeling—plus an...
Codependent?  Self-Care is not Selfish

Codependent? Self-Care is not Selfish

Is self-care selfish? Memorial Day weekend was coming up, and I had three days off to decide what to do. Because I am balancing a job and my counseling practice, a family, and my own self-care needs, normally this is the time to get “a bunch of stuff...
How to Love Your Partner Using the 5 Love Languages

How to Love Your Partner Using the 5 Love Languages

If you don’t know your partner’s love language, or worse—you know it, but you’re not “speaking” it—you’re missing out.  Love is an incredible thing.  Understanding and nurturing your partner’s love language is an excellent way to make them feel...