Allow yourself to FEEL your pain. A break-up or divorce can hit every pain point you never even knew you had. When you’re down to nothing, remember there is only one direction you can go, and that is up! Our first instinct is to deny what we’re experiencing because it’s just too painful to acknowledge.
Have you ever wondered why we are so different? Males and females, that is. Let's look at one of our major differences, and one which is also one of the MAJOR complaints in intimate relationships; where men complain there is not enough sex - females complain there is not enough intimacy. What we don't always
Although these are not the only things that will help you start your marriage off on a strong footing - these are ten things I believe to be very important. That being in love is not enough for building a successful marriage The warm, euphoric feeling will come to an end and if that is
It's amazing how most of us go about each day without even the slightest realization that everything we choose to do or not to do, is setting the stage for where we live in our future. Yet, every single second or minute of every single day, whatever we choose to do will be the seedling
As 2018 draws to a close, I find myself looking back to two years ago when I set myself a personal challenge of reaching my highest potential and I'd like to focus on one of my major struggles in achieving that goal. I'm very proud of the person I've become in these past two years;
As I write this blog, it is Thanksgiving Day and my heart bleeds from some of the stories I've heard as it relates to the treatment of our elderly relatives. You would think that it would be strangers that our elderly should be most fearful of; yet unfortunately it is usually their loved ones that
I don't know what it is about us humans, but somehow we seem to believe that if we just have a dream about doing something, that somehow it's just going to happen all by itself. Consider this. So many of us want to lose weight; yet we never watch what we eat or exercise. So
If you truly want to know who a person is; don't ask them; just listen to them and observe what they do. A person can tell you anything you want to hear. And some will agree with anything you say; however, if you listen to a them long enough and watch their actions, you will
A few days ago we all learned that Kate Spade, an apparently successful and accomplished entrepreneur committed suicide. This morning we learned that Anthony Bourdain, another successful and accomplished entrepreneur also hung himself in a Paris apartment. The question that jumps to mind is why? But as a psychotherapist, I also understand that people can
What happens when we know there's something we need to do and we just keep putting it off, telling ourselves that we will do it, "when we have time, when things settle down, when it's not so hot, when it's not so cold" and the list goes on an on... This morning I got up,
