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How to Stop Negative Thoughts
Thoughts are powerful. Maybe you’ve noticed – the more negative they are, the more they command your attention. Studies suggest that around 80%...
How Do You Know Therapy is Working?
There’s no doubt about it, therapy can be tough. But like all challenges that lead to growth and well-being, it’s worth it. It makes all the...
What a Couples Therapist Wants You to Know About Relationships
Couples counselors are observant. They’re watching the two of you… in session anyway. They’re interpreting what’s is (and isn’t) said. Cueing into...
7 Hidden Signs of Teen Anxiety
Anxiety in teens is tricky. While a little bit sprinkled throughout the teenage years is normal, how do you know how much is too much? If...
Can Emotionally Unavailable Men Change?
When the two of you met, you felt it. It was powerful, magnetic. Your eyes locked, and everyone else at the party disappeared into the...
The Gray Area – Is Divorce Later in Life the Right Decision?
You wake up with a jolt – where did the last 25 years go?!You sit up, scootch to the edge of the bed, and poke your toe around on the floor in...
9 Ways to Improve Your Mental Health
As anyone who’s graced a health food store supplement aisle or the expansive self-help section at a bookstore knows: when it comes to how we feel,...
Micro-Cheating: Signs and What to Do About It
What is Micro-chating? Micro-cheating is a less blatant form of cheating. The partner engaging in the act may not even be fully aware of what they’re doing, and how detrimental it can be to their current relationship.
Micro-cheating involves cultivating emotional intimacy with someone outside of the parameters of a current relationship, in a way that could hurt the other party in the relationship.
Similar to emotional cheating, there is usually no touching or physical intimacy. While a true definition of micro-cheating can vary slightly according to personality and comfort level in a relationship, signs of micro-cheating are:
How to Have a Passionate Marriage
Chances are, you remember what passion feels like. It’s thrilling; all consuming! Your fantasies know no bounds, and when the two of you get...
How to Have a Healthy Marriage: Tips From a Therapist
You’ve probably heard that marriage requires work, but what does that mean? What is the work? Perhaps a better, more helpful way to convey that...
How To Be Resilient
No matter who you are or what you have, life requires one thing from all of us: Resilience. According to the Marriam-Webster dictionary,...
Dating Anxiety: What to Know About Dating After 50
Society’s message has always been loud and clear, women should aspire to be married. After years of listening to that, finding yourself single after...
Is Your Anxiety Affecting Your Kids?
Remember Whac-A-Mole, that arcade game where you had to hit the moles that popped up with a mallet in a wild anxious frenzy?To a degree, life can...
How Depression Can Affect Your Marriage and What You Can Do
You’ve been married 5 years now, and things are worse than ever.Not with the marriage specifically, per se. It’s the depression. Your partner has...
Relationships: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Is this it? You wonder. Am I destined to live out the remainder of my days with this person who seems perfectly happy on the couch, the TV...
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