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Keep Your Kids Engaged This Summer
While it’s important that kids get a chance to decompress over the summer months, it’s crucial they don’t spend the entire time behind a screen.
Yet, since most parents don’t get summer vacations along with their kids, it can become a challenge to ensure they remain engaged.
Here are some ideas on ways to keep your kids active and involved over the summer, ideas that will have a positive impact.
Improve Your Relationship: Understanding Bids for Connection
You may be surprised to know that most communication is non-verbal, and when it is verbal, often, it’s indirect: Most people aren’t great at asking for what they want.
This is why understanding a bid for connection is so, so, important.
A bid for what, exactly? You may be asking, what are you talking about?
Here. Let’s take a look.
Simple Meaningful Mother’s Day Gifts
The best Mother’s Day gifts are so exclusive, so unique, that you can’t get them on Amazon or anywhere else.
These cherished items are things that move mothers to tears. And while it may sound like they come with a hefty price tag they don’t—far from it.
The gifts we’re talking about here are things that come straight from the heart.
For those looking for ideas on what to create with the kids this Mother’s Day, check out these Mother’s Day gift ideas she’ll love.
How To Improve Family Life
Sometimes family life feels like sheer survival mode: You’re exhausted, barely hanging on as you try to keep everyone alive so they can show up for that seemingly never-ending list of obligations.
Day after day, commitment after commitment.
To make it even more challenging, one of your kids is struggling and you’re not sure what to do.
Instead, you catch yourself fantasizing of going somewhere quiet for a week—without kids—and… sleeping. Imagine, never changing out of high waisted PJ’s or even putting on a bra!
If you feel like you’re white-knuckling family life, this is a good indication it could use some readjusting.
These tips will help you catch your breath, and provide some much-needed peace.
At Relationship Therapy we understand this, and have helped families get through all sorts of challenges.
How To Master the Art of Asking for What You Want
It’s been a rough week. You’re unsure about the future of your new position—there are rumblings of budget cuts—and some are worried about being let go.
I’ll get a pizza and a bottle of wine on the way home, you think, it’ll be a nice cozy evening with my boyfriend where I can share some of my worries about the craziness that’s been going on.
As if on cue, your phone buzzes.
Hey, the text reads, I’m going to go out with the guys after work… should be home around 9pm or so.
You feel heat flush over you.
Do you ask for what you want—share how you feel—or do you just let it go?
Here are some ideas and resources for asking for what you want and how couples’ therapy can help.
What To Do If Your Spouse Won’t Go To Couples Therapy
You’ve tried, lord have you tried! The answer is either a hard “no,” or it’s some other vague excuse.
The fact is, women tend to be much more open to the prospect of couples counseling than men. So, what should you do when you know your relationship is becoming stagnant—or worse, it’s in danger of falling apart—yet your other half has no interest in couples counseling?
As we all know, in relationships, compromise is key.
Here are some ideas and resources that may help if your spouse refuses to go to couples’ therapy.
Your Guide to Requests, Boundaries, and Threats
Asserting your needs in a relationship can feel so challenging that often, people just don’t.
Or, they’ll ask for what they want, but never enforce any type of consequence or set a boundary when their request is dismissed.
Distinguishing the difference between requests, boundaries and threats is extremely important for anyone in a relationship, and it’s imperative that you understand when (and why!) to implement each.
Have You Done the Inner Work Required for a Great Marriage?
Many of us are aware of the foundation of a happy marriage, and will pinpoint the fundamentals required. There’s trust, communication, love and respect…but… what is the foundation of those things? Like, how do you get good at them?
Here’s the secret: you’ve got to do the work.
Let’s take a look at some of the inner ways of being that can agitate a relationship if they’re not healed first.
Why is Anxiety So Common?
Suffer from anxiety? You’re not alone. In the USA about one-third of the population will experience an anxiety disorder at some point, making it one of the most common mental health diagnoses currently.
The obvious next question then is, why? What’s causing this anxious uptick, and what—if anything—can be done about it?
Let’s take a look.
What do Couples Really Fight About?
Do you ever have a moment—mid argument—where you catch a glimpse of clarity and think, what are we doing? What are we even fighting about?
If so, here’s the real shocker: Frequent spats often have little to nothing to do with the subject of the argument. Rather, they’re an indication there’s something deeper going on.
Here’s a brief rundown of common issues that result in arguments…
What to Expect in Couples Therapy
Can you guess the main reason couples who’d benefit from therapy never go?
The answer is, fear.
Fear of being vulnerable, fear of opening up, fear of the unknown, the list goes on and on.
Now, fear is a worthy excuse. However, the cost of skipping therapy due to being afraid usually doesn’t yield the best outcome.
Couples therapy is powerful, and can revive your relationship. If you’re still a little unsure, here’s what you can expect when you and your partner sign up for relationship advice.
Introvert + Extrovert: The Love Mix!
Opposites really do attract, and when introverts and extroverts form a relationship, these differences can become glaringly apparent.
But, not to worry. With a little communication and compromise, this union can be as harmonious as yin and yang, balancing each end of the spectrum beautifully.
Communication begins by first identifying your feelings, then expressing them in a way that ensures they’re heard and understood without insulting or diminishing the person you’re speaking with.
Communication issues are one of the biggest reasons why relationships fail. The longer a couple goes without learning how to communicate in a healthy manner, the more damaged the relationship becomes.
Here are some of the top communication pitfalls couples typically experience. If any of them sound familiar, don’t worry—there’s a solution.
Boost Your Mood – Emotional Resilience Tips
Being on edge in your own head is an awful experience. It can range anywhere from feeling uncomfortable to being downright scary.
Thankfully though, there are some things you can do to lessen the discomfort. Here are some tips that—when practiced regularly—can boost your mood, and help you become more emotionally resilient overall.
Top Communication Pitfalls for Couples
Learning how to communicate effectively is a superpower. It’s also attainable—the problem is it’s not something most people are taught.
Communication begins by first identifying your feelings, then expressing them in a way that ensures they’re heard and understood without insulting or diminishing the person you’re speaking with.
Communication issues are one of the biggest reasons why relationships fail. The longer a couple goes without learning how to communicate in a healthy manner, the more damaged the relationship becomes.
Here are some of the top communication pitfalls couples typically experience. If any of them sound familiar, don’t worry—there’s a solution.
What Defines a Perfect Romance?
Are you looking for the perfect romance?
When it comes to romance, we’re all familiar with the Hollywood version which, truth be told, doesn’t appeal to everyone.
The reality is we all have our own definitions of romance. Often though, we never share this with our partner. Which naturally results in feeling disappointed—or even slightly embarrassed on Valentine’s Day, as not everyone cares for flowers.
Here, we invite both you and your other half to clearly lay out your version of romance as defined by none other than YOU.
Sharing your definition (and inviting your other half to do the same) is the best way to get what you want this Valentine’s Day.
Discover How You and Your Partner Help Bring Your Romantic Vision to Life
Reach out to start your healing journey today