Category: Psychology and Relationships
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Emotional Manipulation in a Relationship: How to Fix Those Broken Words
Many might have heard the term gaslighting come up in conversations or in social media posts you have recently read. This term is becoming more popularly used as a way to describe emotional manipulation in a relationship. This happens especially when it goes to the extent of one person leading the other to believe that they’re…
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: What Can It Change?
Various forms of couples therapy have been practiced over the decades, often focusing on specific relationship problems and trying to find the best resolutions for them. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a subform of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). EFCT allows couples to build more positive relationships through the development of the attachment bond. Actually,…
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Speech Therapy: What Can Words Really Heal?
Children learn early on the importance of listening and speaking. This all starts with learning to use phonemes, which are the smallest units of speech to construct different words. Many children are able to hear and speak in the age’s normal ways at normative ways. However, some children struggle with hearing and speech. They are…
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Conduct Disorder: What May Take Your Child Out of Society?
Although you might not have heard it referred to by its proper name, Conduct Disorder is something you have likely seen examples of in popular culture and, perhaps, even among your child’s group of friends. Perhaps your own child or teenager shows signs of Conduct Disorder. In order to help you gain a clearer perspective…
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Postpartum Depression: Healing What Can Happen to Anyone
The birth of a child is assumed to be a happy occasion for the child’s parents. There certainly can be a sense of happiness or even euphoria. But some parents face with a profound sense of helplessness, guilt, a lack of a bond with the child, or even an emptiness and wanting to run away.…
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Fear of Commitment in Marriage/Partnership and Moving toward Emotional Intimacy
Resolving the fear of commitment begins by better understanding what we are committing to. Sometimes we commit to or avoid committing to assumptions and expectations that we are not completely aware of within ourselves or with another. As we locate these subconscious assumptions and expectations, we can begin to free ourselves from them. Our over-controlling…
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Silent Treatment Abuse or Shunning, page 2
As I wrote in the previous post page 1: “Silent Treatment Abuse” is the ancient practice of shunning using modern terminology to describe how it appears in our present relationships. It can be most confusing and frustrating because it feels like there is nothing that can be done about it. Many people have experienced abandonment, helplessness…
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How to Care for a Blended Family, 5 Areas of Focus
Blending families is a courageous act of love and intelligence because at some point the kids need the next chapter to begin and so do Mom and Dad. There are 5 areas that need attention for the transition to go easier. Every family has their specific dynamics that can be worked with as long as…
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How to Love One’s Self and Working with the Fear of Loving
The act of loving one’s self feels right. It makes sense. It is simple, “love your self”. And, it is very complicated because there are parts of ourselves that we resist acknowledging, let alone loving. Loving one’s self is a continual process of uncovering smarter and kinder ways of relating to our self, to others…
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Growing a Marriage: Deepening the Emotional Conversation, part 2
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” Rumi In this article we will look at how to work with the negativity that arises within us through conversations with our partner in marriage. In the previous post, part…
