Showing posts with label relationships. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relationships. Show all posts
Thursday, June 2, 2016

New York Times Article: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

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An essay by writer/philosopher Alain De Botton from last Sunday's New York Times has great relationship advice with a healthy amoun...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Are You A Highly Sensitive Person?

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Do you respond more intensely to experiences than the average person might? Do you cry easily? About 20% of the population fits into the c...
Monday, February 1, 2016

Being Known: The Seven Levels of Intimacy

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Matthew Kelly wrote the classic relationship book  The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved . The boo...
Monday, August 3, 2015

When You're Not an Introvert or Extrovert: Meet the Ambivert

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In Myers Briggs personality testing, individuals are typed along a continuum from introvert to extrovert. A recent article in the Wall Str...
Monday, July 13, 2015

The Power of Your Mindset

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We spend a number of minutes each day picking out what we are going to wear, but there is a far more important accessory we choose each da...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Saving Your Relationships From Death by Cellphone

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Angels baseball pitcher Jared Weaver was quoted in an article in the OC Register yesterday by sports writer Jeff Fletcher yesterday that...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

The Best Valentine's Day Gifts of All

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On the way into work this morning, I was listening to a radio show with the hosts discussing great Valentine's gift ideas: shaving kit...
Monday, September 22, 2014

Rethinking Your Anger

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Anger isn't all bad. Growing up, many of us got raised to believe anger is wrong, unladylike or uncivilized. Anger often travels with ...
Monday, September 1, 2014

What If Other People Aren't Supposed to Make You Happy?

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So often in counseling I see people disappointed that marriage or parenting doesn't make them happy. What if we rework that expectatio...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Helping Boys Become Men: A Checklist

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You aren't born into manhood. It's a process of becoming one. A boy's character is developed over time, and learning life skil...
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Monday, May 19, 2014

Difficult Conversations: Let's Be Honest and Direct

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Things are so much less complicated and simpler if you are honest in your relationships. Don't wimp out by avoiding difficult but pote...
Friday, April 4, 2014

The Connecting Power Of Touch

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Loving touch comforts and heals. Many seniors who live alone or in residential settings can go long periods of time without being hugged o...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

The Power of No

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I notice that it's sometimes hard to say "no." Women often feel they need to please others, and take on too much. Many paren...
Monday, February 3, 2014

Let's Disconnect: Put Down That iPad and Come to the Dinner Table

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Families are struggling as they figure out how to cope with family members isolating and plugging into their technology. We've lost th...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Taking the Risk of Opening Up

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It's always a big risk emotionally to open up to someone else: to be real and vulnerable. Opening up means chancing rejection and hurt...
Monday, November 18, 2013

When Adults Throw Tantrums

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Have you ever seen a full-grown adult have a meltdown? If you are observant, you can see adult-sized tantrums occur wherever you go, inclu...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Go For The Brass Ring (Don't Settle)

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I like to see people go for it. I hate to see people settle. It doesn't tend to make people happy in either their professional or pers...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Why Hooking Up Is Messed Up

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In July, The New York Times ran a follow-up article to its earlier one about the death of courtship, explaining how dating practices have ...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Owning Your Own Power

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I see people give away too much of their own personal power. While I'm not interested in power over other people, I see it as highly d...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

The Most Important Ingredient

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There is one essential ingredient to all relationships. This includes love relationships and marriages, as well as relationships between p...