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Navigating Life After Loss
Do you feel completely lost about how to navigate through life after losing someone you love? This is an extremely common feeling when someone is faced with grief and loss. Most people wonder, “How long will I feel like this?” and “What does this journey through grief...
When You Are Flooded, Stop Arguing
If your heart rate exceeds 94 beats per minute when you are in an argument with your spouse, you are “flooded.” That’s another way of saying that your brain has activated your body’s fight or flight response. Recognizing and responding to flooding are cornerstone...
Three Steps To Better Communication For Couples
If arguments with your spouse routinely escalate and end with hurt feelings and disconnection, the most likely culprit is in the way you begin the conversation. You can begin with harsh starts, or gentle starts. Which one of those you choose will almost always...
Three Effective Communication Techniques For Parents of Teens
As a parent, your words have power, even when it doesn’t feel like it. Learning effective communication is key to breathing new life into any relationship, and your relationship with your teen is no different. Incorporate these tips into your everyday conversations...
Ten Warning Signs Your Teen Might Need A Counselor
This Just Normal Teenage Behavior Or Does My Teen Need A Counselor? With all the changes and intense emotions teenagers experience, even their normal behavior can be concerning. It’s often hard for parents to know when professional help is necessary. Although...
Creating Trust in Relationships
Every couple has an emotional bank account that uses trust as currency rather than money. The balance in that account determines how couples react when things go wrong in the relationship. It works just like a checking account. If you have plenty of money in the bank...
Meta-Emotion Mismatch
There’s an old saying that there are two kinds of people in the world – those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who know better. It’s funny because it’s true. But there is one factor we assess in Gottman Method Couples...
A Culture of Appreciation in Your Marriage
Resolve to Create A Culture of Appreciation in Your Marriage If you want make a New Year’s Resolution that will improve your relationship in 2020 consider this – research shows that happy couples express appreciation toward each other 20 times for every one...
Culture of Appreciation in Marriage
THIS COUPLES COMMUNICATION TIP IS A GAME-CHANGER FOR RELATIONSHIPS When I ask people to tell me what brings them to couples therapy the most common answer by far is “communication.” What they are usually saying is that during disagreements they end up...