How to Give Emotional Support: for Times of Distress
Have you ever watched helplessly while someone struggled with fear, anxiety, overwhelm, loss or discouragement? You are not alone in wanting to provide effective emotional support!
Relationship Building
marriage, couples, husband, wife, sex, healthy relationships, relationship tips, friendships
How to Repair a Relationship with a Letter
Relationship cut-offs are painful. They can trigger feelings of hurt, helplessness, hopelessness, and rejection. But here is help to repair a relationship.
Intergenerational Resilience: Care*Communicate*Connect
Intergenerational resilience is about empowering younger and older. I have experienced four generations from daughter, mother, grandmother, and now great-grandmother.
Four Steps to Make Friends Who are Emotionally Safe
Ready to make friends or to begin dating? Here are four simple steps to make new and emotionally safe relationships. Yes, you can make new friends.
Exploration of Sex and Gender Differences
Women are still under-represented in all levels of government and in corporation boardrooms. At the same time, women are over-represented in family shelters.
Book Summary: It’s All About Power and Control (Marriage)
A summary of Norman L. Quantz’s book, It’s All About Power and Control: Why Marriages Fall Apart and What It Takes to Put Them Back Together Again.
Book Summary: The Good Marriage
Do you have a good marriage? Discover in The Good Marriage research that indicates key ingredients or tasks for a successful, loving and long-term coupleship.
Reach Out to those Feeling Lonely: Flatten the Curve
Feeling Lonely? Have you had some significant moments of feeling lonely? Most of us have felt deep and empty disconnect and sadness. I felt it as a farm girl, living at the end of a long lane. I felt it in high school, being surrounded by other students while feeling shunned. I felt it when […]
How to Proactively Mend a Broken Relationship
Repair Ideas for Your Broken Relationship It takes courage to reach out and mend a broken relationship. Those with a high level of resiliency demonstrate exceptional courage to do so. As the American author and poet, Maya Angelou wrote: Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice […]
What to Know about Boundaries in Relationships
Boundaries in Relationships Most of us have had our personal boundaries violated. I have been asked in a job interview how much money my husband makes. The obvious answer was “None of your business.” Then there was the manager who patted my behind. Boundaries in relationships help all parties feel emotionally and physically safe. When […]
How Healthy Boundaries Can Protect Your Values
Personal boundaries provide an effective strategy to handle many different external woes or adversities. Survey respondents quoted in my book, From Woe to WOW, indicated such. An outreach worker wrote, “I wish I’d stood up to her,” an office receptionist wrote, “I should have stood up for myself months sooner,” and a nurse wrote, “I didn’t make the world a better place by running away.”
Tried and True Relationship Advice That Sticks
If you want to experience an emotionally safe, growth enhancing, and beautifully connecting event, consider attending The Rocky Mountain Couples Retreat.