Exercise is good for us, isn’t it? But what happens when we take things to extremes and use exercise as a punishment? The good news is we can heal our relationship with exercise and reap the benefits in healthy ways Exercise is often a big part of people’s lives, and when you look at the…
I know I should start a New Years post in 2021 (although you should be warned, there won’t be much of the “New Year, New You” energy you might see elsewhere) but since I started a new job this one week I wanted to touch nerves and be nervous. People’s relationships with these feelings can…
When we view someone as lonely, we almost always imagine the individual as literally alone, but for many, loneliness is an experience that they feel despite being with others or even in the context of an engaged relationship. Clinical psychologist Ami Rokach says loneliness is an experience we go into when we don’t feel cared…
It’s time to stop disapproving of our stretch marks, moaning about our shape, or annoying our poor eyesight – and instead remembering how wonderful our bodies really are … Our bodies are amazing – they help us explore the world around us and allow us to live our best possible lives, yet we so often…
Whether in love or guidance, choose kindness. In honor of Valentine’s Day, I’m starting a multi-part series on a topic I love to talk about: love. Why don’t we learn marriage counseling topics until it’s too late? Scientists have studied relationships for decades, put couples in a lab, and predicted their divorce potential with over…
You would probably be surprised at the number of couples I work with where one or both partners feel their problems โCame out of nowhereโ or โHappened overnight.โ There are also those couples where one person doesnโt feel that anythingโs really wrong and is just attending counseling to appease the other. I can tell you…
Let me tell you about a man named Ross. When I met him he was elderly and totally unresponsive. The nurse at the nursing home told me that he was alive and if I looked very closely I could see that he was breathing. Not once had I ever heard his voice or saw him…
