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The Secret to Love that Lasts

The Secret to Love that Lasts

I liken love to a dance. It’s a dance of intimacy, full of social and emotional dips, turns, and spins.   In our best dances, we hold each other close and seamlessly engage with one another, mutually taking turns, gently leading and following, respectful of...
Summer Loving: What Are Your Expectations?

Summer Loving: What Are Your Expectations?

Are you thinking this is the summer you’ll meet someone and start dating? Are you hoping to reconnect with your spouse this summer because it’s the first time in what seems like forever that you’re actually going away together? Would you like to finally have that...
Reminders to Keep in Your “Back Pocket”

Reminders to Keep in Your “Back Pocket”

When working with clients who need help in being assertive, I often encourage them to have some “back-pocket sayings” — short sentences that they can whip out of their “back pocket” at any time in order to stand up for themselves. Things like, “thanks but no thanks”...
Connected and Protected: Understanding Boundaries

Connected and Protected: Understanding Boundaries

Establishing healthy boundaries in relationships is key to loving well. The problem, however, is that many of us might not have learned how to do this. We often fall into 3 categories in our relationships when it comes to boundaries. Which one of these sounds like...
The Upside & Inside of Anger

The Upside & Inside of Anger

We are living in a world marked by reactivity and emotionality – not to mention a hectic, harried, and noisy pace where we barely slow down and take time to SEE each other. We just react. Impulsively, and with fire and fury sometimes. It seems as though we are more...

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