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The Balance of Acceptance and Change in Couple Therapy
Couple therapy can best be thought of as a delicate balancing act between the concepts of acceptance and change for both partners. The...
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What is Intimacy Made Of?
Intimacy is a key aspect of our relationships with others including friendships and, well, intimate relationships. While it’s generally...
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Joining Narratives in Understanding Relationship Problems
When couples have longstanding conflict or a tense stalemate in their relationship, the most common reason for this can be found in the...
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The Importance of Narratives in Relationship Problems
Narratives are incredibly important to us as human beings – we seem to be, more than any other animal, hardwired to try to make sense of...
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The Art of Argument Deescalation: Creating a Collaborative Time Out Plan
When problems in a relationship grow, this sometimes boils over into active conflict that can feel quite destructive to the health of the...
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Channel-Checking: One Simple Trick to Improve Communication in Relationships
A first line of defense against relationship arguments Imagine you arrive home from a stressful day at work, and begin to tell your...
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4 Common Triggers for Relationship Conflict
What causes two people who care a great deal for one another to have arguments? To be so focused on being right or making the other...
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Emotions! What are they good for? Absolutely... Something??
This post describes why we have emotions and offers ideas for how to process emotions.
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Therapists Hate Him for Revealing This One Mental Health Trick!!
Learn one strange trick to start turning your mental health around today. What are judgements? No one wants to think of themselves as...
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Generalized Anxiety in Bill Wurtz's "I'm Scared"
This post describes aspects of generalized anxiety disorder with the help of Bill Wurtz's song, "I'm Scared."
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