I’m having a hard time writing this post, because as of this writing there are thousands of children being separated from their parents at the U.S. border and I feel paralyzed. I’m having a hard time focusing, truly feeling frozen and flooded at the same time. Girls and maybe boys are being raped, parents are […]
Trauma
The Must Read Book To Improve And Deepen Your Relationship
10 years ago on a Saturday afternoon in late April, I settled into a window seat of an Irish bar, overlooking 2nd Ave in the East Village, with a Guinness in one hand, and the teal, hardcover book by Dr. Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, in the other. […]
This Fact Will Help You Love More
Every year on the anniversary of 9/11/01, if you’re like many people, you think about where you were, what you were doing, who you were with… Emotional memories stay with us forever. We learn with emotion, because emotion tells us something is significant, so it gets etched even deeper into our brains and memories. Even […]
Keeping Secrets In Your Relationship
Caution: Loaded topic. Are you keeping secrets in your relationship? Before going further about this, let me tell you that most secrets in an intimate relationship if you are long-term committed partners are toxic. Poisonous. Secrets are things you are either keeping from your partner on purpose or explicitly lying to them about. Before going […]
Time heals all wounds?
One of my biggest pet peeves is the idea that “time heals all wounds,” especially as it relates to injuries in relationships. These four words have caused so many couples so much damage, it’s about time we debunked this myth of time being the cure all for every problem. FORGIVENESS heals wounds, not […]
When You’ve Never Had Good Role Models In Love
I hear it all the time, “we just haven’t had good role models in love.” You may be worried you’re doomed to a lifetime of unfulfilling, unhealthy and perhaps toxic relationships. Even worse, maybe you’ve found someone who appears to be the love of your life, but you just can’t figure out how to connect. […]
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