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Help for Depression: Using Journaling as Part of Your Wellness Strategies
Have you ever thought about using a journal? If you think about using journaling as part of your wellness strategies, you may want to write down...
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 communicator?...
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...
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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 well. It is...
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 received.” “The house...
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 ever!...
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 create challenges that are unique, but are quite overwhelming. Consider these comments, for example: “I had hoped to win...
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 from the truth.
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People of all genders do have different ways of communicating. To remedy communication problems, those differences will have to be overcome.
Still, it probably feels like both of you are completely clueless about how to even approach this issue. What, then, can you do? Are you just doomed to being horrible communicators? – I assure you, it’s not that hopeless.
Reach out to start your healing journey today