Richard Nicastro, PhD examines how a lack of self-acceptance can hurt your relationship. He offers ways to get a better understanding of yourself, so you are better equipped to turn towards your partner. The Power of...
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Richard Nicastro, PhD
Learn How to Ask for What You Need in Your Relationships
Jennifer Lehr, MFT looks at the problem with “sucking it up” in relationships. Positive connections and inner peace will more likely come from learning that it’s ok to ask for what you need. We all...
Jennifer Lehr, MFT
Get out the Broom…8 Ways to Spring Clean Your Marriage
For many, spring is a time of renewal and recharge, a sleepy-eyed yawn and waking up from a winter slumber of sorts. People feel the urge to clean their homes, their cars and their work environments. Marriages can...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
Marriage as a Safe Haven
Fawn Weaver is a believer in marriage and despite the recent media focus on marriage decline and daunting divorce statistics, has made it her mission to hear from and celebrate other happy wives worldwide via Happy...
Key Insights | Disconnection to Reconnection : When Your Relationship is Truly Healing
Intimate relationships can be challenging at times and require TLC and effort to sustain them. And the reality is, they can get off track. If over time this happens enough, where resentment and other negative emotions...
Empathy on Fire
I was recently a volunteer for Challenge Day at my local middle school, an anti-bullying program to build empathy, compassion and spark positive change in the kids who take part. Little did I know how powerful this day...
How to Repair a Relationship Rupture
Linda Graham, MFT looks at how to repair relationship ruptures and the neuroscience around it. Researchers have discovered that even in “good enough” close relationships, we spend about one-third of the...
Linda Graham, MFT
Warning Signs Your Relationship is in Trouble
It’s not like the movies. Relationships don’t usually break up during a big dramatic scene; they are distressed little by little over time until both partners feel a complete disconnection. As a counselor, I meet...
Jennifer Chappell Marsh, MFT
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...
Ways Couples Hide from Intimacy
Richard Nicastro, PhD explores the sneaky but effective ways couples can hide from intimacy. Emotional intimacy isn’t for the faint of heart. It takes courage and faith to open your heart to another, to let down your...
