How To: Use DBT Skill: DEAR MAN to Communicate Effectively
DBT Skill: DEAR MAN teaches how to communicate effectively. These skills may be used to communicate wants/needs, as well as set...
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8 Strategies to Show Yourself Some Love: Learning the Art of Self-Care as a Teenager
Sometimes, however, life causes us to have larger holes than normal. Maybe the holes in our bucket come from more significant stress or...
Five TED Talks to Spark New Thoughts in the New Year
We are at the beginning of a new year! Full of time when many of us make resolutions about how we are going to improve our minds, our...
5 Easy Ways to Avoid Holiday Burnout This Year
But as our lives have grown and changed, I’ve come to a realization: How many of those things do we really HAVE to do? Because at the...
The Affair Series: Atonement
Atonement Phase This phase necessary to the rest of recovery, it is the time when the affair partner must come clean with their actions,...
‘Tis Always the Season to be Grateful
EXPRESS THANKS WITH YOUR BODY We all appreciate nice words, but backing those words up with action could prove to be fun for the both of...
Ways to Deepen Your Relationship Part 2
Prioritize an End of Day Conversation After a long day away from each other, make an effort to reconnect. Of course, life gets busy and...
Connection Connection: Read All About It!
Individuals have many needs- both physical, emotional, and spiritual. The focus of this series has been taking a dive into the nine...
Social Support: How Important is it to Your Overall Health and Wellbeing?
Types of Social Support Emotional support – Most people think of emotional support when they talk about social support. Emotional...
How to Support Someone Going Through An Emotionally Difficult Time: Tea and Honey – Part Two
Loving someone comes with high and low days. Loving someone with a chronic condition or someone going through an extended difficult time...
How to Support Someone Going through An Emotionally Difficult Time – Part One
Tea and Honey Which one do you relate the most to? For me, it fluctuates. Sometimes I’m piglet, being the person offering the support....
Myth-Busters: Relationships Edition
One of the first conversations I have with these types of couples involves exploring the expectations that they brought to the...
From Roommates to Reconnection
“We have different lives, like passing ships.” “It’s like we’re not even married anymore; we’re just roommates.” I hear these difficult...
Evaluation in Marital Therapy: Individual Factors
In order to treat marital conflict, the therapist needs to get a picture of the emotional state of each spouse. Three criteria Guerin and...
Being Together While Apart: Making Long-Distance Marriage Work
Set Up Boundaries The most important thing you and your spouse can do for yourselves is to set very clear boundaries of what the...
Evaluation In Marital Therapy: Triangles
We are following along what Philip J. Guerin, Jr. Leo F. Fay, Susan L. Burden, and Judith Gilbert Kautto wrote in The Evaluation and...
How To Appropriately Utilize Rewards and Punishments
The theme for focusing on solutions is: What is the problem and what is the solution? Children are excellent problem solvers and have...
Now You’re Speaking my Love-Language: Acts of Service
If these 5 love languages are new to you, don’t worry! First, I encourage you and your partner to discover your own love languages by...
Getting Lost and Finding Yourself: Stepping Outside of Your Teenage Shell
My Experiences Middle school feels like another life to me. High school is a funny and distant memory to me because of how deeply I felt...
Opposites attract, but do they last?
You need quiet when you first wake up, they need loud audio stimulation. Your idea of a date night is a quiet evening, their idea is a...
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