Marriage and Family Therapist, Jennifer Chappell Marsh, looks at a study indicating a connection between relationship happiness and belief your partner can change. If you are a married couple, you are no stranger to...
Category - Healthy Relationships
Jennifer Chappell Marsh, MFT
3 Strategies to Make Date Night Work For Your Relationship
We’ve all heard the experts go on and on about the importance of date night to maintaining a happy relationship. In fact, researchers at University of Rochester found that watching movies and talking about them may be...
Esther Boykin, MFT
Get out the Broom…8 Ways to Spring Clean Your Marriage
For many, spring is a time of renewal and recharge, a sleepy-eyed yawn and waking up from a winter slumber of sorts. People feel the urge to clean their homes, their cars and their work environments. Marriages can...
Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT
The Neuroscience of Negotiating Positive Change in Your Relationships
Linda Graham, MFT looks at how to make relationship (intimate or friendships) changes by more clearly seeing your role in the dynamic, possibly from prior relational experiences. Self-awareness and resilience are key...
Linda Graham, MFT
Couples Communication : 5 Ways to Encourage Your Partner to Listen
Richard Nicastro, PhD looks at 5 specific tools to improve communication in your marriage or relationship, setting the stage for emotional safety and greater intimacy. Communication is the bedrock of a healthy...
Richard Nicastro, PhD
Disconnection to Reconnection : When Your Relationship is Truly Healing
Intimate relationships can be challenging at times and require TLC and effort to sustain them. And the reality is, they can get off track. If over time this happens enough, where resentment and other negative emotions...
How do you talk to people? Try a softer tone.
Rick Hanson, PhD explores communication and the importance of tone awareness in your relationships. When our kids were little, I’d come home from work wanting some peace after the daily roller-coaster and often walk...
Rick Hanson, PhD
You First in Relationships
When I say, “You first in relationships,” I’m not flashing a green light for selfishness and bratty behavior. I’m talking about the importance of being emotionally right with yourself before you...
Do You Believe in Love? Trust Love.
Rick Hanson, PhD looks at the importance of being open to love, which is as natural as breathing and is woven into our DNA. Take a breath right now, and notice how abundant the air is, full of life-giving oxygen offered...
Emotional Safety and Your Relationship
Richard Nicastro, PhD looks at the role of emotional safety in secure relationships and steps that can be taken to create it. When emotional security is lacking… “Over the last year we’ve had so many ugly fights that I...
