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5 Signs You're in a Toxic Relationship
Approximately -50 percent of U.S. men and women- say they’ve been the victim of psychological aggression from an intimate partner. A smaller percentage — 35% of women and 28% of men — say they’ve experienced physical violence, sexual assault and/or stalking in their lifetime. While shocking, these statistics only represent the most egregious of offenses. The -signs of toxic relationships- are often...
January 9, 2020
The 5 Magical Shifts To Creating Blissful Relationships
There she was; the lady who always looked at me with disdain. “What have I ever done to her?”- I wondered. “Why does she disapprovingly look at me when I’ve never really had a conversation with her?”- I was baffled by the sour look she gave me every time I saw her. I racked my brain trying to figure it out. The weird thing was that her friend liked me; we laughed and talked like we had known each other...
September 13, 2018
When A Child’s Destructiveness Uses Up A Parent’s Unconditional Love
When I hear the term "unconditional love," I think of the incredible moment my son was born. Yet a parent's love can be virtually destroyed. Some of the most difficult moments I've witnessed as a therapist, when there wasn't an actual death, is when a parent is agonizing over a grown child whose destructiveness and emotional manipulation are squeezing out the last drops of unconditional love that parent...
May 5, 2018