Rick Hanson, PhD explores communication and the importance of tone awareness in your relationships. When our kids were little, I’d come home from work wanting some peace after the daily roller-coaster and often walk...
Category - Healthy Relationships
Rick Hanson, PhD
You First in Relationships
When I say, “You first in relationships,” I’m not flashing a green light for selfishness and bratty behavior. I’m talking about the importance of being emotionally right with yourself before you...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Do You Believe in Love? Trust Love.
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at the importance of being open to love, which is as natural as breathing and is woven into our DNA. Take a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered...
Emotional Safety and Your Relationship
Richard Nicastro, PhD looks at the role of emotional safety in secure relationships and steps that can be taken to create it. When emotional security is lacking… “Over the last year we’ve had so many ugly fights that I...
Richard Nicastro, PhD
Key Insights | Make a Mistake in Your Relationship? Follow These Two Steps
We would not be human if we didn’t make mistakes. In a relationship, when two people are navigating the complexities of each others feelings (as well as their own), mistakes are inevitable. How many times in...
Men, Why Empathy in Relationships Matters and How you Can Step it Up
Empathy is one of the cornerstones of healthy, happy and connected relationships. But for women, it’s particularly important. In Women Happier in Relationships Where Men Feel Their Pain, an APA study...
Your Early Relationship with Mom and Your Intimate Adult Relationships
“The ability to trust, love, and resolve conflict with loved ones starts in childhood — way earlier than you may think. That is one message of a review of the literature in Current Directions in...
How to Encourage Your Partner to Take Better Care of Themselves While Strengthening Your Relationship
You are on the fit track, eating healthy, and working on being the best you can be. You would love nothing more than to have your partner on this journey with you. In fact, when they aren’t on the same page, things can...
Joy Nordenstrom, CMM, MBA
Key Insights | Quick Tip to Assess the Quality of Your Relationship Right Now
Many people are clear about what a “healthy relationship” looks and feels like. But some are not, particularly if they’ve had a history that hasn’t demonstrated this for them to see. If you...
5 Expert Tips to Improve the Communication in Your Relationship
Whether you’re in a new dating relationship, engaged or married for years, one of the fundamental elements of a solid relationship foundation is communication. The following tips can only help to improve...
