Want to Improve Your Relationships? Focus on Mindful Listening
Mindful listening allows us to be more present, focused, and deliberate in our actions. If you want to form deeper, more authentic connections, you need to start practicing mindful listening.
We Choose How We Treat People
Several months ago, I had a few extremely busy weeks where I was swamped with work, I was overwhelmed with elder care, and I was barely keeping things together on the home front. I felt super stressed, exhausted, and cranky.
How to Fight Better in Relationships
In our society, conflict generally has a negative connotation. It’s common to think that the best way to safe and secure relationships is to avoid all disagreements — fewer disagreements means less fighting, equals happier relationships. Given this messaging, our bickering made me worry about the health and stability of my relationship.
Should I Break Up With My Friends?
Over the course of the pandemic, you may have realized there are friends in your life that have very different value systems than you and this is causing conflict and discomfort — and ultimately you’re realizing that don’t want to maintain a relationship with them anymore.
How to Share Your Feelings
I remember an experience I had many years ago when I first started dating my partner. In the middle of a discussion, he said something that instantly caused me to feel really insecure. I felt my chest tighten, my heart start to race, and my stomach swirl — the familiar sensations that I experience when I’m feeling rejected and that are connected to emotions from my past relationships and my experiences with racist childhood bullying.
Improve Your Relationship with the 5 Love Languages
Between our demanding schedules and obligations, sometimes it can be easy to forget the work we need to do to nurture our relationships. The simple gestures or compliments we usually dish out to our loved ones are not prioritized and can even fall by the wayside.
Love is Like a Flower — We Need to Nurture It
A while back, my sister and I were chatting about love and relationships (as sisters do!) and she shared something that I thought was incredibly profound.
Why You Should Think About Self-Love This Valentine’s Day
Historically, I know that Valentine’s Day has been thought of as a day for celebrating romantic love, but it’s a day when I like to think about love in all its forms. And for me, the question of love always comes back to one foundational building block: self-love.
Dating During COVID – Here’s How to Tell if You’re Sexually Attracted to Someone!
So many of you have reached out to share how difficult it is to navigate the COVID dating scene right now, and one thing that I keep hearing repeatedly is that it’s so hard to tell if you’re sexually attracted to someone on a video or physically distanced date. So I thought my test from my days of being single might help you!