Welcome the Santa isn’t even a mind reader: Detached Gift Giving Guide. Tis the season for BIG feelings and A LOT of resentment, if you are not armed with tools to manage expectations and stay grounded in gratitude. Emotions can run at an all-time high from Thanksgiving to the gift-giving holidays. If you were triggered …
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Relating with your Partner Top 11 Conversation Prompts are exercises in relating and supporting partners during trying times. Post Partum, job loss, and a Pandemic might be the perfect storm for those who are susceptible to unhealthy tendencies in relationships. So many families and couples are growing during the pandemic and there are a few …
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Tips for Supporting Partners with Childhood Trauma are not easy to come by because there are no easy fixes for complicated healing. Everyone’s journey is different and if your partner is just seeking help in recovery, your support may look very different from someone who has undergone years of therapy. All things considered, these tips …
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Non Violent Communication 2020 is a suggestion to all my patients, non patients, friends, and family to communicate with more compassion and understanding. People have turned to non violent communication for conflict resolution, but when you apply it to your daily life, the results are more authentic connections and expressions of needs that stop miscommunication, …
Your partner is probably both, and is potentially an addict or potentially an asshole. I get asked this question all the time and it is not a one time question. A lot of my betrayed partners experience ranges of emotions when the event or events or relapses take place and they have every right to …
If you are in an abusive relationship, here are Abuse Resources for help. I was in an abusive relationship. You can read about this here. As you will find from the statistics below and from my story, you are not alone. I accept new patients here. Domestic Violence Hotline: (800) 799-7233 If you cannot speak …
Confinement resulting from COVID 19 pandemic is testing most relationships. Many foundations are tested by the challenges of parenting during crisis, partner behaviors, job loss, and underlying trauma. It may feel easier to self soothe and step into behaviors, addictions, or patterns rather than do work at this time, but maintaining your distance and keeping …
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How to Disagree during Covid 19 is not easy. Whether online or in confinement, we are consistently bombarded with information and much of it is triggering for our belief systems. On top of that and for my purposes as a licensed marriage and family therapist, our restricted access to places to go if we wanted …
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What can I expect from couples therapy? Well, many things. I chose this quote from Amy Shumer because she touches on a common disagreement that couples have, whose issue is it? When a couple decides to start therapy, more often than not, they have reached an impasse on certain issues and behaviors. A licensed therapist …
