Affair Recovery: The Importance of Lament
You just disclosed to your spouse that you had an affair and may be filled with a melting pot of emotions, especially if you are desiring healing and restoration to your marriage.
Infidelity: Grief Moves Us Forward, It Doesn’t Keep Us Stuck
What is your relationship with pain? That seems like a strange question. You might find yourself quickly responding with “I don’t like it.” After all, who wants to experience pain.
Misplaced Identity: It’s Not Your Calling
“Tell me about yourself”….one of the most commonly asked questions for any interview or introduction. And yet, that’s a tough question no matter how much you prepare for it!
Attachment: What Is It and Why Is It Important?
You may have heard the term, “attachment” and relate it to child development or a parenting style. Those are fitting places when talking about attachment, but I would like to talk about why attachment is relevant to your adulthood and how it is important to your well-being.
Wives Sexual Desire | What You Need to Know
Why do women lose their sexual desire? More importantly: What can you do about low sexual desire? In this article, we take a look at the ways female sexual desire is different than male sex drive. If we don’t understand how wives are unique, our attempts at understanding the loss of libido will be…well…frustrated.
When Sex Hurts: Dealing with Shame
I cannot tell you how many clients come into my office complaining about how painful sex is. They share with me how sex has caused burning, stinging, or sharp pain. These pains can be caused by a few different things.
Sitting With a Loved One in Their Grief
Watching someone you love grieve is an incredibly difficult space to find yourself in. I often hear things like “I just don’t know what to say” or “what can I even do to help them?” Hopefully in this article I can provide some insight into how to sit with your loved ones in their grief.
Rekindling Lost Love: How to Heal from Emotional Distress in Marriage
For many, one of the most exciting milestones in life is when a couple takes their dating relationship to the next level as they commit to a lifetime of togetherness, joy, and adventure, and say their “I do’s”.
Navigating Change: 3 Tools to Help Keep Your Cool
What do we do when we find ourselves in a place of uninvited change, of unmet expectations? Maybe some of these sound familiar to your experience?
What to Expect in Your Anxiety and Trauma Healing Journey
I’m writing this to the one who has held onto the edge for so long but is afraid to take the first step. To the one who wants to see change but is afraid to hope for the possibility of its reality. It can be a scary thing to begin to think of healing from pain, trauma, and its many effects.
Assisting Your Spouse with Panic Attacks
Many people are familiar with the term “panic attack” but unsure how to identify one, much less how to comfort and ground their spouse when they are experiencing one in full force.
Is My Relationship Destructive?
It can happen to anyone. You find yourself in a relationship where you are repeatedly torn down and criticized, or perhaps called cruel names.