Few things can disrupt your relationship like infidelity.
While infidelity doesn’t have to end your relationship, it is a major cry for help.
Couples counseling can help salvage your relationship after a betrayal like infidelity.
Live What You Learn After Your Session: How to Push the Reset Button
By Elizabeth McMahan
Therapy usually leaves you feeling great, right? You learn new skills and tactics, you get to focus on yourself, and you figure some things that you may not have been able to on your own. The only downside is you can’t keep your therapist in your pocket at all times…so you have to find ways to live what you learn when your session is over.
Why Self-Care for Parents Must Be a To-Do List Priority
By Elizabeth McMahan
You have a planner, an iPhone scheduler, and a traditional calendar on the wall.
You’re ridiculously busy. You’re driving. You’re planning You’re volunteering.
You’re filling the fridge. You’re shopping. You’re fretting, soothing, disciplining, cheering them on and checking their social media for all the things you might be missing.
Relationship Repair or Call It Quits? Why Counseling Helps Either Way
By Elizabeth McMahan
For the most part, people think of couple counseling and marriage counseling as a means to save their relationship when they have come to the end of their rope.
Either both partners realize they need to make the effort and commit to counseling; or, it’s one spouse’s desperate, last-ditch attempt to convince the other to hold it together.
Communicate Better With Your Teen ... Beyond Huh? What? I Don't Know
Body Awareness: Why It's Important to Trust What Your Body is Telling You
By Elizabeth McMahan
Intuition is a gift we were all given at infanthood. Intuition is how we connect with our inner selves through our bodies. It links closely with body awareness, also known as somatic awareness or “learning to feel your body.”
So, why is it that important to trust what your body is telling you?
Grief and Loss: Why It's Okay to Process the Pain Your Own Way
It’s a common misconception that there is one, fixed way to deal with grief and loss. This is because we see mourning as a problem that needs to be fixed when this really isn’t the case.
As uncomfortable as it is to deal with emotional pain, it’s something that we as humans all experience. It’s natural to search for a resolution that will stop our pain.
The Honeymoon Phase: Why Does It End and What Happens Next?
The heady stages of a new relationship are among life’s more exciting moments.
You feel like you’re living in a real-life fairy tale. You idealize your partner and think he or she can do no wrong.
This is called the “honeymoon phase.” It’s fun and romantic.
It usually occurs in the early stages of a relationship and can last anywhere from 6 months to two years. But sooner or later, it comes to an end.
Are You A Mindful Couple? 7 Ways Mindfulness Can Improve Your Relationship
By Elizabeth McMahan
Relationships are a non-stop work-in-progress. We work on ourselves as part of being a couple while we also work on ourselves as individuals. The more work we do, therefore, the more smoothly we learn and grow. This growth needs mindfulness. Healthy relationships, for that matter, also need mindfulness.
Forgiveness: How To Do It, Embrace Acceptance, And Move On
By Elizabeth McMahan
Trust is tricky – it’s hard to gain and easy to lose.
It’s also one of the biggest cornerstones of any relationship. When lost, the person betrayed may feel extremely devastated because it can completely alter the path of the entire relationship. We’ve all experienced some form of hurt or betrayal, but to what extent? The nature of the relationship, as well as the level of hurt we feel, will probably determine whether or not we’re willing to forgive the person who betrayed us.