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New Year's Resolutions: Make them easier with these tips boundaries emotional health life lessons self-improvement Jan 01, 2022

 

For those of us who make New Year's Resolutions, we are connecting with a sense of hope that things can be different. It's part acknowledgement that things could be better and hope that we can engineer that improvement in our lives. Really, the hopefulness we feel is a love affair with the potent...

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đź’• 3 Communication Tips for an Easier Holiday Season emotional health perspective relationships self-improvement Dec 14, 2021

I recently posed the question, “What’s a positive change you want to make in your relationship?” All the responses I got were focused on communication, everybody wanted to communicate better. As it turns out faulty communication is a top relationship problem.

I couldn’t think of a better topic to a...

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Handling Holiday Stress đź’Ą If You Are A People Pleaser boundaries emotional health perspective self-improvement Dec 01, 2021

Holidays are a magical time of year AND an incredibly stressful time of year. Many of us look forward to our family traditions, holiday parties, decorating, and gift giving. But, in order to do all these things, we feel like we have to squeeze them into our normally hectic, busy schedules AND get it...

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Could being curious help your relationship? perspective relationships self-improvement Jul 10, 2021

Child’s play is something anyone can do, and yet usually, only children do it. We equate child’s play with something simple and easy. Wouldn’t it be awesome if hard things in life were more like “child’s play?” 

What if child’s play could make something like your relationship easier? Wouldn’t THAT ...

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Two Easy Suggestions for Making Valentine’s Day Special perspective relationships self-improvement Feb 12, 2021

Many people dismiss Valentine’s Day as a Hallmark holiday. But, let’s think about this for a minute. It’s a lot more than just a money-making scheme for a big corporation. Valentine's day has been around since before the Middle Ages. If it has been celebrated in some way for the last several hundred...

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Lying and Truth Telling for Effective Communication Guide boundaries relationships self-improvement Dec 17, 2020

What lying is and how to tell the truth

Connie could tell something was wrong. Her boyfriend of 5 years seemed more distant but denied anything was going on. When she asked what was wrong, he said everything was fine. Then one day she found a stack of papers he had left out on the counter. The pape...

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