From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Love and Marriage

May 28, 2009

There so much stress in people’s lives these days that it is no wonder marriages are struggling more than ever. No time, less money, more complicated parenting issues, etc., etc., etc., I have to say that I absolutely LOVE working with couples. I enjoy the energy and the dynamics–there is often a lot of soul [...]

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Food and Emotional Health

May 20, 2009

New Year’s began May 1st for me. Three weeks ago I made a commitment to eat healthier and exercise more. I admit it, I’m struggling. Like most women, I have disordered eating patterns. I never binged or starved but I do have this unhealthy connection to food– and of course it becomes much more magnified, [...]

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Couples: Improve your communications

May 16, 2009

I call it the Pause and it is truly a relationship saver. Imagine the last argument you had with your partner. Think about the most angry, volatile moments in that argument.  Now imagine if one or the other had paused … somewhere, at some point in the argument.
Perfecting  the Pause will require a lot from you.

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Improving Your Relationship With Your Partner

May 14, 2009

Relationships aren’t easy and the relationship between intimate partners is undoubtedly the most difficult and challenging.  We begin our relationships with the notion that the love we have for our partner will conquer all only to discover that it doesn’t and won’t ever.
We tend to focus on infidelity in a relationship as the most hurtful [...]

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Managing Life When You Are Having A Bad Day

May 12, 2009

It’s difficult not to have a bad day every once in awhile.  Maybe it starts early–before breakfast. Or something happens, a phone call, a bill, you get sick, you have an argument, it can be anything that triggers its onset. It happened to me today. I felt as if nothing in my life were going right [...]

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More Stress Tips

May 11, 2009

You may have noticed that you can’t seem to go anywhere these days without hearing something about meditation and mindfulness. This can either entice you to try it or as one of my clients recently said, “It’s such a fad”. Meditation is by no stretch of the imagination–a fad but I know what she means. [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day

May 10, 2009

This morning as I was waking up my thoughts turned to my years as a mother–all 28 of them. In years past, our nuclear family would gather around the family room or kitchen, cards and gifts would be exchanged.  After our private ceremony, we would usually make our way to one family or another’s house [...]

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Stress and Money

May 6, 2009

They go together don’t they? Most of us are either wondering and worrying about how we are going to make it or worrying how we are going to keep what’s left.  Everyone is being affected by the economy. I recently drove down a street that I often do and every other house had a For [...]

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