Learning to Notice What is Already There: The Rose Itself
Behavior therapists have long used a technique to distract clients from their difficult Read More ...
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Marriage and Parenting: Balancing everyone’s needs
Work-life Balance -- Making Time for Yourself When I was born, my father’s Read More ...
Maintaining Composure as a Parent and Householder
Maintaining a graceful composure when performing life’s demanding household and Read More ...
Better Sex through Non-Sexual Touching
Two people rarely have the exact same sex drive. One person might be happy with daily sex, Read More ...
Parenting: Playing the Hand You’re Dealt
As parents, most of us make terrible fortune-tellers. When my daughter Eileen was a Read More ...
We Fear What We Cannot Control: Acknowledging Pain and Suffering
The German airplane crash by a suicidal pilot, the Florida shootings, the Boston bombings. Read More ...
Psychotherapy, Love, and Healing
Nothing is more natural than the urge to be held and comforted by someone who Read More ...
“I’d be better off single”: Distress-maintaining thinking
How may times have you gone to bed thinking that you hate your partner, fantasizing how Read More ...
Standing Behind the Waterfall: Learning to Change Distorted Thinking with Mindfulness
Thoughts are not facts. When we’re upset, our thoughts seem valid—yet it’s exactly when Read More ...
Building and Keeping a Strong Relationship After Having Kids
Marital conflict is bad for kids. While every marriage has conflict, especially Read More ...
The Effect of Having Kids on a Marriage
Marriage is Strained After Having Children Being a parent is hard. But being a parent Read More ...
Meditations on Humpback Whales: Mindfulness of Sights and Sounds
On a recent trip to Africa, I climb the bluff from which, I’d been told, I could see Read More ...
The Church of the Backyard: Finding Comfort in Nature
For many years I have met with a group of women one Friday morning a month. Around our Read More ...
Falling in Love Again with Your Partner: Love Maps, Friendship, and Staying Connected
When love is new, we ask questions to get to know our partner well. As Mandy Len Catron Read More ...
The New Year, Rebirth, and Obstacles
By the third or fourth week of January, many of us are reevaluating our lives. Read More ...
Every Ornament Tells a Story: Coping with Holiday Stress
Two weeks into December, and I had no holiday spirit. I had no desire to decorate or to do Read More ...
Turning Toward Each Other Every Day: You Don’t Have to Wait for Date Night
Building closeness doesn’t happen only on date night, the subject of my previous two Read More ...
Five Excuses Couples Use to Avoid Date Night
1. “Hiring a sitter is too expensive.” There are ways to minimize the expense of Read More ...
Date Night: Making Time Together Part 1
Couples need time to be together without other couples, family, kids, TV, and the endless Read More ...
Marriage and Idealism
In my practice, I often treat couples who have highly idealistic expectations about Read More ...
Procrastination: Scratching Items off the Mental To-Do List
A lot of our stress comes from holding our undone tasks in mind; the more we have, the Read More ...
Chronic Pain: Talking About Pain
Treating pain is difficult for several reasons. Narcotic painkillers bring with them Read More ...
The Present Moment and Transformation
Research reported in the respected journal Science, in an article titled “Just think: The Read More ...
Marriage & Acceptance: Crooked Timbers
Perfectionism is a personality trait that can have positive results: perfectionists work Read More ...
