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While effective communication may come easily for some, it is far more difficult for others.
What about you?
Does it seem that communicating with others is increasingly difficult and disrespectful? Do your disagreements feel less like interacting and more like overreacting? Are your rants making their way into your everyday conversations more and more?
You’re not alone. Communication can be tough for many of us, especially when our emotions take over.
What gets in the way?
Recovering from an affair can be excruciating.
It doesn’t matter if you were the one betrayed or the one who did the betraying. Healing can prove to be a difficult journey. And along the path to healing, you will likely feel a great deal of anger after infidelity.
Sometimes, your anger might feel like a need for revenge and other times it could even feel like a rush of humiliated rage. While these feelings are natural, dealing with them in a healthy way might not come easily.
Who’s the most important person in the world for you to know? Not your boss, not your lover, not your best friend. The answer is - YOU! Self-awareness is fundamental to personal growth, good relationships with others, and success in life. Self-awareness is no small thing. Lack of it can break you. Some spiritual traditions even teach that the biggest cause of suffering is not knowing what is going on inside yourself.
We all want to improve our relationships, our occupations, our income, our health, and our happiness. Unless we build our self-awareness, we risk failure before we even start.
When you marry the first time, there’s usually a special feeling that it will last forever.
When you marry for the second time, however, that feeling may not be there because you’re keenly aware of that your first marriage didn’t last.
Sadly, divorce statistics don’t paint a more encouraging picture for those who have been married before. Some 67% of second marriages and 73% of third marriages end in divorce.
We often associate personal loss with the death of a loved one. Grief, however, is not confined solely to death. A health crisis, career change, a home sale, or the termination of a relationship or marriage– there are numerous pieces of life, that, through the progression of time, we might eventually lose.
Grieving the parts of life that we once loved and cherished is painful, and the steps we take towards recovery may be very similar to the grieving process of losing a loved one.
Creating and maintaining a social life can be difficult. Most of us have lost friends over the years, made new ones, and lost some again. We’re busy with work and adulthood, but we still crave the social interaction that friendships provide.
During transitional periods of life, it’s common to feel alone or a lack in your social life. In fact, a recent study showed that 72% (almost three quarters!) of Americans experience loneliness. The good thing about loneliness, however, is that there’s a solution to it. Make a change in your social life by trying the following five tips.
There’s a preconceived notion that only couples experiencing relationship issues should see a therapist. While couples counseling is recommended for anyone with marital problems, that’s not the only reason to schedule sessions.
Couples counseling is a great way to get to know your spouse on a deeper level while taking preventative measures to combat any potential problems.
Trying to think of a unique way to express your love to that special someone? Consider these creative off the wall ideas to tell your partner that you care.
“You’ll never be able to do that.”
“What makes YOU so special?”
To some extent, we’re all familiar with this voice inside our head, the one that tells us we’re not good enough, undeserving, etc.
If you’re sick of listening to the abuse, silence your inner critic. Use these six ways to stop beating yourself up.
