The Anxious Overachiever
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Untangling Ourselves from Conflict
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How Chronic Anxiety Makes Us Allergic to Each Other
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Getting a taste of new functioning in your relationships.
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What are the stories, spoken or unspoken, that you tell about your family? Who is the leader, the victim, the villain? Who just can’t seem to get their…
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the difference between being responsible for others, and being responsible to others. Feeling and acting responsi…
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Learning to define yourself instead of directing others.
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When I’m catching up with a therapy client, I often ask them, “Where has it been hard to be curious?” Where there is a lack of curiosity, you may find …
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This week I’ve been thinking about how our position in relationships can affect our ability to think clearly. A triangle is a three-person relationship…
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How to be an ambassador for yourself.
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And how we can get the flavor back.
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Lately I’ve been thinking about how we use quick social comparisons to temporarily boost our mood and functioning. Because in the absence of our own me…
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Gary Chapman’s book The 5 Love Languages has been a constant bestseller for years. People seem to like the idea that the root of marriage problems is a…
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