The Remarkable Power of Touch
The power of touch is profound – whether it is an accidental glazing from a stranger, the strong kneading of a professional masseur, a gentle hold from someone close, a reassuring squeeze of the hand,...
View ArticleToxic Relationships: How to Let Go When It’s Unhappily Ever After
If life ran like a storybook, the person we fall in love would not be the person who broke us. Sadly, we humans tend to be a bit more human than that. We fall in love, we commit, we get hurt – over and...
View Article15 Signs of a Toxic Relationship
Toxic relationships will cause monumental breakage to people, families and workplaces, but they aren’t necessarily the territory of the weak, downtrodden or insecure. Strong, healthy, independent...
View ArticleThe Popular Painkiller That Reduces Empathy (And Joy)
Empathy is the heartbeat of healthy relationships. Without it, there is limited scope for connection and understanding – arguments heat up, intimacy cools down, small issues become big ones, and...
View ArticleHow to Have a Difficult Talk
In any relationship, whether it’s with a work colleague, friend, partner, parent, sibling, there will often come a time where a hard conversation has to happen. They’re the conversations that need to...
View Article5 Things You Need To Know About Domestic Abuse
When it comes to understanding domestic violence, it can be surprisingly easy to fall prey to assumptions. We know that it occurs regularly, and most may even speculate that it happens more frequently...
View ArticleWhen A Loved One is Struggling with an Addiction – 6 Steps To Take
If your loved one is fighting addiction or even struggling with mental illness and an addiction, you may be wondering how you can help. You don’t want to become an enabler, as this will only make the...
View ArticleFor Better or For Worse: How Personal Tragedies Can Change Your Relationship
Whether you’ve been together for one year or 20 years, somewhere along the way you’ve endured a personal tragedy that has affected you and your partner. These can range from small tragedies, such as...
View ArticleWhen You Love a Man With Low Self-Esteem – 9 Things to Keep in Mind
So you love a guy with low self-esteem. Sucks to be you. I’m saying that as a dude who used to hate himself. Who still kind of does. I know the crap you deal with. He must drive you nuts. I was in a...
View ArticleAfter the Affair – How to Forgive, and Heal a Relationship From Infidelity
Infidelity happens for plenty of reasons. None of them good ones. It happens because of ego or stupidity or breakage. Or because of smugness or ignorance or a widening ache or an emptiness or the need...
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