How to Keep the Magic Alive: 5 Ways to Energize Your Marriage
Marriage isn’t a cake that you put in the oven and check on in fifteen years. You need to be an active participant in cultivating, nurturing, and energizing your relationship with your partner. This is particularly important given that American Psychological Association has found that 40-50% of f...
How You Know that He’s the One: 5 Keys to a Perfect Choice
Choosing a life partner is perhaps the most important decision that you will ever make. Where you go to school, what job you choose, even where you settle down are all choices that are fairly easily changed and rarely have lasting impact. Who you choose as your life partner, especially if you hav...
When They Launch: Four Steps to Reclaiming Your Empty Nest
Your child just left for college and left you with a huge hole in your heart. Besides slapping a college bumper-sticker on your car and planning a fall trip to their school for a football game, what else is a mother supposed to do? In my practice as a clinical psychologist and in my personal life...
Transparent Communication: The Key to Reenergizing Your Relationship
Transparent communication is the key to a successful relationship, whether it’s an intimate relationship, a parent/child relationship, a friendship or even a work relationship. Transparent communication means energizing your inner voice and listening closely to it. It means putting your thoughts ...
When You Get to Choose: 5 Keys to Authentic Decision-Making
The ability to make authentic decisions is central to living a life that feels fulfilling and personally meaningful. Too often we base our decisions on the needs and expectations of family and friends. The more we do what we think we are “supposed to do”, the more we are saddled with feelings of ...