Relationships

Can we take a moment to collectively acknowledge how hard this is right now? With everything going on, we need people more than ever, but …

Healthy groups allow every member to express their individuality without that difference being seen by other group members as a threat. That’s differentiation. In a …

    This simple illustration is meant to be a visual representation of something that can be kind of hard to understand about therapy: it’s …

Demonstrating our trustworthiness builds relational bridges that self-advertisement cannot. If you sense that your friend, partner, child, client, etc. feels hesitant to trust you, let …

  Most psychological measures and scales tend to make us think in black-and-white terms, but I like how this adaptation takes the attachment style grid …

In a culture where “vulnerability” can sometimes feel like relational currency, it’s easy to fall into a trap of disclosing trauma stories before a new …

  Dr. John Gottman spent 40 years researching marital stability and theorized these “4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” but it only took me a few …