Easy Ways to Bring More Security to Your Relationship
If your relationship sometimes feels like you’re riding a rollercoaster, there are simple ways to feel more secure as a couple.
Signs That You’re in a Codependent Relationship
Are you in a codependent relationship? Consider these signs that you may be in a codependent relationship.
Put Your Self-Value First
Do you depend on a result to make you feel a certain way about yourself?
Are You in Love Poverty?
When you’re in love poverty, you tend to highlight the good and minimize the bad in your relationship. You tell yourself that the nice things he’s done for you are SO AMAZING. Ultimately, you don’t believe that you deserve better. That’s love poverty.
Breaking Generational Cycles of Dysfunction
When you’re a woman who works on yourself in therapy, you’re able to break cycles of dysfunction that have persisted for many generations.
Inching Toward Goals
This little guy hitched a ride with me from the garden center. As I watched him traverse the landscape of my hand, I couldn’t help but notice that he moved forward, “inching” along, then stopped and lifted his front end up. It was as if he was taking stock of his...
Are You Caring For Your New Mental Garden?
Thoughts are New Plants I have a baby milkweed plant in my garden. This is my third attempt at growing milkweed - the first two times, the plant died back, most likely because I did not tend it well. Young transplants need lots of care and attention until they firmly...
The Way Out
Full disclosure: I’ve had a rough month. Grief. Heartache. Loss. Anger. Frustration. Discouragement. I don’t like even typing those words, as that takes me back to where I was several weeks ago… not wanting to feel the feelings, wanting my circumstances to be...
What’s Keeping You From Reaching Out for Therapy: Part Un
Let's talk about how your thoughts about your circumstances keep you from asking for support in therapy. Sure, you fight a lot with your spouse, and it’s annoying. You’re trying to forgive past hurts but haven’t quite been able to get there. You don’t have a lot of...
“Normal Weight” Does Not Automatically Mean “Good Health”
As women, we rely so readily on the number on the scale as an indicator for our good or bad health. After all, we're weighed at every doctor visit, even if we're being seen for a sore throat. And what a conversation is sparked around pregnancy weight gain! If it's a...