How do you discuss tough topics? If you are able to self-differentiate, not define yourself based on another person's actions or words, then you are able to hear another...
The Blame Game
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Category: Abandonment
Are Your Emotions Unstable?
Do your emotions sometimes feel unstable? Do you find yourself doing things you thought or promised you wouldn't do? Does your partner? You may be experiencing what I call the...
The Most Powerful Last Word
Do you need to have the last word in an argument? Why is it so hard to let the conversation die without having the last say? What drives this compulsive need to make the last...
Intimacy Builder: Validation
Validation simply means acknowledging, and giving importance to, the worldview of another. Validation is a powerful tool in a therapist's toolbag, and can disarm anxiety and...
How You Might Be Blocking Your Own Needs!
Do you ever become aware of a need and then immediately feel guilty? Or maybe you have a need but feel guilty asking for it to be met? Perhaps you hesitate asking for your need...
How To Gain Control Over Your Life
Want more control over your life? It is much easier than you think! We spend so much of our time feeling anxious and out of control and we expend so much energy ruminating and...
Betrayal, Loss, and Grief
Have you been betrayed by a loved one? Have you felt loss after divorce? Are you grieving a life that didn't happen as you had hoped? Sometimes grief is losing someone you love....
Moving From Victim To Victorious!
When hardship happens in your life, how do you handle it? Do you metaphorically throw yourself down on the floor and have a kicking, screaming tantrum? Or do you accept it as...
Finding Happily Ever After
Have you been looking for happily ever after? Let's face it. Deep down, that's what we all want – for the struggle to end, the ease to begin. We want the comfort of having our...
Signs Your Spouse is Having An Affair
I recently read an article that was talking about what signs you should look for to tell if your spouse is cheating on you. The signs the article shared seemed to be right on...
Change Your Relationship Landscape
The ideal purpose of marriage and family is to be your true self, to grow,to be loved, and accepted, unconditionally. Family can be a place to learn the purpose and place for...
Relationship Dependency
You CAN change the cycle of pain you came from..Rewrite your story for hope, for change, for unconditional love.What triggers you into a state of fear? What pushes your buttons?...
I Feel Abandoned In My Marriage
If you read part one of abandonment,you have a bit of an understanding of howabandonment feelings arecreated in your life. What this looks like in current life, as an adult, is...
Abandonment Issues
Everyone experiences loss at some point or another in their lives. But the type of abandonment issues I am discussing today, on my video, and in this week'sblog are deep and more...
How People Pleasing Hurts You
When you are a people pleaser, the list of people in your life that you try to makehappy can often times be endless. It is not always confined to just your spouse, kids, or...
Are You Too Needy?
Are you too needy? Most of us would never admit to such a thing, yet we all have a little clinginess in us. How do you know when you are too needy in a relationship? Signs Here...
Addiction Sufferers
Many addiction sufferers are unable to experience a full range of emotionalhealth within their day to day lives. This also leads to another issue of being unable to process and...
The Honeymoon is Over
If your sense of who you are is definedby judgments or actions of others, then you are experiencing enmeshment. Over investment in others and less investment in...
Pain from an Affair
Dealing with someone you love who feels distant, uncommitted, and is possibly having an affair can be gut wrenching and painful. The sting of betrayal, the lousy levelsof...
3 Signs You May Be Codependent
The word codependent is thrown around a lot. Most of the time people hear the word in relation with being married to an alcoholic. Although it is true that if you are married to...
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