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Common Myths About Love That Are Affecting Relationships
Love is one of the most meaningful experiences in human life. It can bring deep joy, comfort, and...
Why You Overwork to Avoid Your Emotions (And How to Break the Cycle)
Our culture has a complicated relationship with busyness. Packed schedules are worn like badges of...
What Progress Looks Like in Emotionally Focused Therapy
Many couples arrive at therapy feeling stuck in the same painful patterns. Perhaps you've noticed...
Simple Communication Tips to Strengthen Your Relationship
"Communication is the key to any relationship." You've probably heard this phrase countless times,...
Anxious Attachment Style: 5 Tips for Making Dating Easier
If you've ever caught yourself checking your phone obsessively after a first date, worrying that a...
What Happens When Your Partner Won’t Go to Couples Therapy?
You've been thinking about couples therapy for weeks, maybe months. You finally work up the...
How to Navigate Grief and Loss During the Holiday Season
The holiday season arrives each year wrapped in expectations of joy, togetherness, and...
Work-From-Home Relationships: Surviving and Thriving in 24/7 Togetherness
More couples than ever are navigating the unique challenge of working from home together. While...
How Body Image Struggles Can Affect Your Relationship—And What to Do About It
Body image is deeply personal, yet it doesn't exist in a vacuum. The way you see and feel about...
Care.com: How to prioritize your partnership when parenting gets overwhelming
In a thoughtful new article on Care.com, Stephanie Saari, LMFT, highlights how parenting often...
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How Often Should You Be Having Sex as a Couple?
Lots of couples have questions about what’s “normal” when it comes to sex frequency. Maybe you’re...
Evolving Through Connection: How Relationships Aid Personal Growth
People often assume that healing has to happen in isolation. After all, trauma and other mental...
Codependency Explained: Signs, Causes, and How to Overcome
Maybe you’ve always had trouble setting boundaries in relationships. You say “Yes” to everything,...
Substance Abuse and Its Toll on Relationships
Maybe you or your partner have been struggling with substance abuse, and your relationship is...
How to Let Go of Trying to Be Perfect for Your Partner
Maybe you constantly put pressure on yourself to be perfect for your partner. You might feel like...
6 Quick & Easy Ways To Connect With Your Partner
Enjoy this post from Renewed Relationships Counseling Group Associate Jill Cepela, AMFT, and learn...
The Power of Slowing Down in Couples Communication
Good communication is essential for any healthy relationship, but many couples find communication...
Dame: How To Stay Connected In A Fight
All couples have conflict but learning how to stay connected, even during the hardest moments, can...
InStyle: How to Spice Up Your Sex Life, According to Experts
Sex and intimacy is the one aspect of a couples relationship that makes it unique from every other...
5 Healthy Communication Skills For Couples
Almost every couple that I see in my practice comes in with the goal of wanting to fix...
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Why We’re Drawn to Red Flags in Relationships
Perhaps you’re single for the first time in a while, and you’ve realized that you don’t want to...
Breaking the Cycle: How to Learn from Relationship Mistakes
Perhaps you find yourself making the same relationship mistakes over and over again. You might...
InStyle: ‘Hesidating’ Is Rampant Among Singles Right Now
Dating can be exciting and thrilling, but it can also be frustrating and confusing. I am quoted in...
Co-parenting In The Modern Family
Today, many parents are faced with the extremely difficult task of ending their relationship,...
5 Essential Things Your Child Should Know
We all want to raise children that are confident, caring, adaptive, happy and successful. ...
Easing the Stress of Family Gatherings
This time of year, many of us are busy planning family get-together's, creating menus and picking...
