Are You Happy?
Are you happy? Does everyone around you seem happy – but you are constantly stressed, overwhelmed and in a funk? If you are a parent, especially if you are a single parent, work outside of the home, or have a child with special needs, chances are you haven’t had time to think about this for […]
How To Help Your Teen Handle a Breakup
Everyone wants to find love. There is nothing more human than wanting to love and be loved. Teenagers are experiencing this for the very first time, and it can be intense and passionate. The emotions involved are real and often extreme, and teen relationships are often marked by plenty of ups, downs, and intensity. It […]
Problems In Your Marriage? 7 Tips You Can Try Today
Each day, someone will ask me, “Can you help me with my relationship?” Quite often, it is followed by, “My husband (or wife) won’t come to therapy.” I’m here to tell you it’s okay. Believe it or not, one person can affect far more change in a marriage than you might have thought. I’ve seen […]
5 Steps To Getting Your Husband To Help Out
Do you feel like you do everything, while your spouse just isn’t carrying his weight? You work, take care of the kids, do the shopping, the cooking, the cleaning and just about everything else you can think of. You are completely exhausted and overwhelmed, and cannot comprehend why your spouse can’t see that you need […]
7 Warning Signs of a Bad Relationship
Relationship red flags are all of those things that you know aren’t right about your partner or relationship, that in hindsight are always so clear, that you push away or choose to ignore. It’s those things that you say to yourself later, “I should have seen that coming” or “now it all makes sense”. But […]
10 Things Every Couple Must Talk About For a Happy Marriage
There is nothing more beautiful than marriage..uniting the sacred love between two people. Most of us believe if we truly love each other nothing else really matters, and that you can get through anything together. But experience tells us this is wrong. Unfortunately, most couples are not given the guidance and knowledge about the important […]
How To Overcome Anxiety and Depression
Lately, it seems everywhere you turn people are talking about depression. While it is great that mental health is finally getting the attention it deserves, anxiety seems to be the forgotten sibling of depression. Often, they even go hand in hand. Anxiety disorders are actually the most common mental disorders in our country, and affect […]
7 Signs Your Child Needs Help
So often these days, I find parents quick to judge others. They are judging the parenting of others and the behavior of their children, as if to say that, “My child would never get away with acting that way; clearly this is a parenting issue.” Sometimes, children actually have disorders or disabilities that impede their […]
8 Ways To Show Your Spouse Love and Respect
Most people would agree that relationships are built on love and respect. This tends to come very naturally and easily in the beginning of a new relationship. At the start, we tend to be very tuned in to our partner’s needs and desires, and very eager to please our partners. We can easily overlook or […]
10 Qualities Of a Good Person
I have often written about what makes a good or bad husband, wife, or parent. In today’s climate, given all that is going on in the world, I often find myself taking pause, and wondering, “What is wrong with people today?” I am disturbed not only by what I see and hear on social media, […]
3 Steps to a Marriage Makeover
Marriage can be hard. It can be really hard. Perhaps, it’s harder than anything you even imagined. How did you go from marital bliss to feeling so angry at each other all the time? Well, life happened. Work, children, household obligations, carpools, cooking, and so on and so on and so on. People get overwhelmed […]
6 Signs You Need Marriage Counseling
Do you remember when you first got married? How you believed that you could conquer anything and defy the odds with your love? That you were soul mates destined to be together for all eternity? This is what most of us enter into marriage believing. After all, if you thought it was going to fail, […]