General Relationship

There is no way out of grief. All you can do is experience it as it arises with more or less intensity. Some people refer to this as riding the...

Do you set impractical standards for the way you handle situations at home, in social settings, or at work?  Do you beat yourself up when you don’t get it totally...

Life is tough. Our hearts get hit, again and again. We get battered with disappointment, estrangement, abandonment, rejection, break-ups, illness, disabilities, and death. Grief is familiar to most of us....

It’s over for all the right reasons – the betrayal, loss of love, lies – it was time to call it quits. And now, your pain is overwhelming and debilitating,...

I am always looking for ways to create resilience, especially for highly sensitive people. I want us to thrive in the world both as individuals and in relationships. I’ve seen...

Though we know death is inevitable; somehow, we are never quite prepared for it. Whether we lose a loved one at age 16, age 60, or even older, the loss...

When you have a cold, the guy who sits next to you at work says, “Hey, you sound better.” If you recently had a baby, your neighbor smiles and asks,...

We make a lot of decisions every day. Some are small, like, “do I want fruit for breakfast?”, and others are quite a bit bigger, like, “should I quit my...

In 1965 I was 9 years old when my grandfather was moved to a nursing home. The massive wooden door of the old mansion-turned-institutional care facility always opened with a...

Most of us hear this statement, “Be the partner you want your partner to be” and we laugh and say, “Of course! Dah!”  But it often doesn’t work out that...