In relationships, most of us want to be heard and to be fully known. Here are seven key points about what an authentic voice looks like in a relationship.
Self-Care: Am I Just Being Selfish?
Self-care begins with taking care of your basic needs including eating, sleeping, bathing, and medical needs.
Self-care also includes activities to help you relax and de-stress. It is also maintaining relationships and finding balance between work life and personal life. Failure to attend to these needs could result in exhaustion, burnout, illness, and even possible hospitalization.
Coping with Change
Change can be really hard to accept, especially when we don’t have any choice in the matter. Here are a few tips to make the change feel easier!
How Honesty Heals Addiction
Have you ever thought about what it truly means to be honest? Does how honest we are really affect the quality of our lives? Are there different types of honesty or is it a one size fits all concept? These are questions I’ve been pondering and discussing with clients recently that deserve attention to, because I have seen how having these answers for yourself can really help your understanding of the problems you face, especially when it comes to addiction.
Editing Your Story
Each of us have a story, but the plot twist is that most of us are “unreliable narrators of our own story” (Gottlieb).
Do you want to be right or do you want to be married?
A common problem with married couples that become stuck in escalating conflicts is that they are unable to hear each other in the moment.
Supportive, Neutral, or Destructive?
Create a simple goal for yourself to INCREASE the supportive people in your life & DECREASE the destructive people in your life.
Miscarriage Matters – Part 3
We need to talk about our experience. We need to talk to validate our experience. We need to talk to help end the stigma so that other women feel less alone during a difficult time.
Miscarriage Matters – Part 2
Grieving the loss of miscarriage can feel complex because the grief is for something that in some ways never fully was.
Miscarriage Matters – Part 1
A pregnancy loss due to spontaneous miscarriage is incredibly common. Yet despite being so common, miscarriage is often not talked about.
