6 Tips For Work-Life Balance When You Work From Home
Typically, once you enter the door of your home, you can ignore work emails or switch off your phone. Yet, there is no physical separation from your home and work life when you work from home.
What Productive Conflict Looks Like in a Healthy Relationship
Every relationship has its ups and downs. There will be plenty of times when you disagree with your partner or when you cannot see eye to eye
Political Opposites? How to Keep Connecting & Communicating Openly
When connecting with a potential friend or partner, your respective political leanings would become known. If there were a chasm, that would be enough to derail the connection quite often. This is not a good thing, but beliefs and opinions can reign supreme.
Financial Infidelity: What It Is & Why It's Important to Be Financially Faithful
ree that cheating in a relationship is a dealbreaker. At the same time, at least four out of 10 married couples report that money conversations always lead to a fight
How to Know if You Are a Codependent Partner
Popular culture does us no favors when it comes to relationships. We’re raised on “love at first sight” and “happily ever after.” This soon morphs into “soul mates” and couples “completing” each other. The sentiments might be sincere, but the outcomes can be dysfunctional.
What You Need to Know & Understand About GAD
Anxiety is a normal, inevitable, and often helpful human emotion. Anxiety is the most common mental health disorder in the world. Yes, these two facts can be true. And yes, these facts alone feel like cause enough to feel anxious! However, understanding your own experience primarily comes down to the degree to which you feel anxiety.
How You Can Prepare Your Relationship for Empty Nest Stress
Empty nest stress is real and deserves your attention. Committing together to therapy is an ideal way to prepare for this monumental life change.
Aging & Depression: How to Experience One Without the Other
The aging process is quite a ride. It is a time to reflect on one’s life. It’s also a time when some disturbing new factors can affect your life. The older person has many adjustments to make.
How Your Overworking Is Linked to Your Anxiety
Overworking is far too often considered to be a positive and highly recommended trait. It’s positioned as a factor related to values and ethics. However, it can be a very dangerous trend steeped in both perfectionism and anxiety.
Are You a Good Listener? 5 Ways to Make Sure
You may have the desire to be a respectful, active, and validating listener. However, if that desire is not translated into action, the point is moot. Worse, your relationships may be damaged. With that in mind, let’s explore ways to ensure you are a good listener.
Is 50/50 Parenting a Realistic Goal?
There are all kinds of ways to make parenting work, but “bean counting” to make sure things are 50/50 is a recipe for resentment and may poison the relationship.
What Does It Mean to Be Financially Intimate?
Generally, you’ll find many different types of intimacy discussed by relationship and/or psychology experts. These include affectional, intellectual, emotional, sexual, recreational, spiritual, aesthetic, and social intimacy. While all of them are important, this common list highlights how often financial issues are downplayed in terms of relationships.
Why Celebrating Parental Wins Matters
Challenge parental anxiety by celebrating what you're doing well. Lean into your successes and consider these ways of celebrating your parental wins every day.
The Physical Impact of Trauma: What to Recognize & How to Respond
Everyone faces potentially traumatic events. In some cases, these experiences result in trauma which can turn into Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD. Those struggling with this condition may have to deal with anxiety, flashbacks, nightmares, hyper-vigilance, substance abuse, social withdrawal, depression, and thoughts of death or suicide.
PTSD Takes a Physical Toll: What You Need to Know
We know about the mental toll such people face. In addition, the connection between homelessness and suicide is widely discussed. As terrible as all of this is, it is not the full story. People with PTSD may struggle with a wide array of physical symptoms. This connection is crucial to understand.
Suffering from Natural Disaster PTSD: What You Can Do to Cope
If you or someone you know is showing possible signs of PTSD following a natural disaster, professional help is absolutely invaluable. This is not a condition to try handling with self-treatment alone. That said, it most definitely is a condition that benefits from certain self-help efforts.
Normal or Enough is Enough? Assessing & Addressing Sibling Fights
You may not be ready for the answer, but let’s begin with a question: what is the most common form of family violence?
Tying the Knot? What You & Your Partner Need to Know & Discuss
Thanks to pop culture and societal pressure, we may develop unrealistic expectations. We put far too much pressure on ourselves, our partner, and our relationship. Instead of looking to be “completed,” make time to talk about how you visualize marriage going in.
What You Need to Know About Your Period & Your PTSD Symptoms
There are several effective PTSD treatment protocols. However, for women, it is particularly important to factor in the impact their menstrual cycle has on the disorder and its symptoms.
People Can't Accept & Respect Your Decision to Remain Childless? How to Respond
Almost half of women under 44 have never had children. Yet, we still live in a society that equates womanhood with motherhood.