Most people don’t realize the importance of sleep for their psychological well-being. While you sleep, your body is at work repairing pain, stress, anxiety, stabilizing your mood, improving your immune system and processing the knowledge you have gained throughout the day. We often don’t appreciate that our body needs time for itself at night to […]
Why Write? I recommend journal writing to all of my clients as a way to help them sort through how they think and feel. Writing helps to make sense of your thoughts when you are confused, your feelings when they are intense and your choices when there are many. Writing in an excellent way to […]
When you are in a long-term relationship, it is easy to forget that you are responsible for the care of your partner. In order to continually care well for each other over time, you must eventually become experts on each other. One of the most common complaints that I receive from the couples I see […]
Within ourselves we have two sets of needs; self needs and relational needs. In relationships, it sometimes seems that our two sets of needs directly oppose each other. The feeling that our needs are being challenged, often leads to difficulties experiencing true intimacy. On one side we have RELATIONAL NEEDS of: Union: To unite with […]
Most people operate from the perspective of “I come first” and the couple relationship comes second. We often prioritize our needs before the needs of our relationship. This works temporarily at the individual level because it seems less risky and easier to depend on yourself. However, when we see our partner operating from this individualistic […]
The loss of a loved one or the ending of a long-term relationship often leads to feelings of grief. In healing from the loss of the relationship, you can ask yourself three questions to help alleviate some of the reoccurring thoughts you may have. These reoccurring thoughts often occur due to the incompleteness of the […]