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5 Practical Tips to Deal with a Emotionally Explosive Spouse

Dealing with an emotionally explosive spouse is not easy. One minute you’re fine and you feel like you know your partner, the next, you feel like...

5 Tips to Eliminate Ranting, Reacting and Ineffective Communication

Are You Always Shouting and Reacting? Does it feel like you are less interacting and more overreacting? Want to be a better...

Take These Steps to Manage Anxiety and Begin to Thrive!

Just like a plant grows vigorously and flourishes when its needs are met, humans thrive when they are cared for and cared about. Anxiety, though, is...

10 Ingredients to a Healthy Relationship [Infographic]

Many times we know what we don't want better than we know what we do want. This is true for couples that I see in my practice as...

Your Depression is a Liar: Negative Thoughts about Yourself Aren’t True

“They must be really desperate. Why else would they have given me this job? My application was probably the only one they...

Depression is a Thief: How to Control Depression & Take Back Your Life

To even begin to control depression, you must first realize that you have been victimized. Victimized by the most cunning and cruel thief...

What to Do When Substance Abuse is Destroying Your Marriage

Substance abuse can wreak havoc on a marriage. Has it brought yours to the brink of total collapse?Have you given up trying to figure out how to...

Best Marriage Advice – Drop that defense! Own your part in conflicts

I was very pleased to be one of the featured experts in a "Best Marriage Advice by 75 Experts for a Rock Solid Relationship" article on...

Recognize and Cope With Your Spouse’s Passive Aggressive Behavior

Passive aggressive, just like many other psychiatric terms, has become a label used in everyday speech. Unfortunately, that means it often gets...

Blending Families Isn’t Easy But These Tips Can Help

Blending families not only creates challenges that are unique, but that can seem quite overwhelming. Consider these comments, for example: “I...

Communication Tips: How to Truly Listen

We have relationships in all areas of our lives. With ourselves, with loved ones, with family (whether they are good or not), work colleagues,...

Codependency and the Difference Between Caretaking and Caregiving

Initially, the term codependency applied to those living in households with a substance abuser. Today, researchers are aware that people in general...

7 Ways to Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy

Are you your own worst enemy?Do you do what you shouldn’t and fail to do what you should? Maybe you know you shouldn’t eat certain things due to a...

Communication Problems? 7 Tips to Better Communication in Your Marriage

Does it sometimes feel like your spouse is from another planet? That the two of you speak totally different languages? That’s actually not so far...

Paralyzing Anxiety: How to Cope With Flight-or-Flight’s Brother, Freeze

A paralyzing anxiety attack can almost completely shut you down.When Fight-or-Flight’s brother, Freeze, hits you with his Supervillain-like freeze...