Nurturing Your Holiday Mental Well-being: Steps to Improve Your Festive Season The holiday season is often considered a time of joy, celebration, and togetherness. However, for many individuals, it can also bring about heightened stress, loneliness, and a sense of...
Embracing the Heartbeat of Heritage: The Beauty of Family Traditions In the tapestry of life, family traditions are the vibrant threads that weave generations together, creating a rich and meaningful narrative. These cherished rituals and customs serve as the glue...
Are you listening to me? Sometimes it seems the problem with communication isn’t so much what we say or how we say it, but more, is our message even being received? Do you find yourself saying to your partner ‘Are you listening to me?’. Does your partner really...
What's the Difference between Coaching and Counseling? When new clients call seeking help with counseling, we are often asked ‘Coaching vs. Counseling, what is the difference?'. It is important to clarify the difference between the two and explain how both options are...
How to Succeed in Marriage Counseling When couples start working with me they often ask about my success rate. I usually answer, “When I have a couple with both spouses willing to take 100% responsibility for their part of the relationship, we’ll be 100% successful.”...
Are You Lonely? Have you ever felt lonely in a crowd? When you're amongst family and friends, have you ever felt lonely? Do you ever feel lonely in your closest relationship? Loneliness Loneliness has been called a national healthcare crisis because of the...
What is trust? Is it given or is it earned? Is trust something that one loses and never regains? Trust is a vital part of relationships, so vital it could be viewed as its own entity.
Shame identified. Shame is the unseen driver behind many challenges couples experience in their relationship. In my previous blog, Shame Part 1, I mentioned that shame can be difficult to identify. I explained how shame can work in secret when we do not know what it...
Are you struggling in your marriage? Have you talked and talked but seem to get nowhere? Have you tried marriage counseling and it didn’t work? Or are you silently suffering, feeling so disappointed that this place of “roommate status" is where you find yourselves...