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How Stress Is Quietly Destroying Your Marriage and How Heat Therapy Can Help-image

How Stress Is Quietly Destroying Your Marriage and How Heat Therapy Can Help

You come home exhausted, your partner says the wrong thing, and suddenly a small comment turns into a full-blown argument. Does that sound familiar? Chronic stress doesn't just wear you down. It chips away at your relationship in ways you...

Dear Brave Soul, When You Feel Trapped in a Relationship You Chose-image

Dear Brave Soul, When You Feel Trapped in a Relationship You Chose

I hope you aren’t here. But if you’re reading this, you probably are. You chose this. You wanted this—maybe decades ago, maybe years ago. And while it might feel important to pinpoint when or why, it doesn’t really matter now....

What My Book Release Taught Me About Complex Shame-image

What My Book Release Taught Me About Complex Shame

When my book, Stronger in the Difficult Places released, I already knew what was coming. Not necessarily intellectually, but I knew it in my body. I know what shame feels like. I had told a vulnerable story in this book....

How to Keep Your Relationship Thriving in the Golden Years-image

How to Keep Your Relationship Thriving in the Golden Years

Life after crossing the sixties opens a new chapter. It is a period of calmness, reflection, and deeper companionship. When kids are off to start their life and there’s no stress to go to work daily, you tend to focus...

Planning a Couples’ Retreat to Refresh Your Love Life-image

Planning a Couples’ Retreat to Refresh Your Love Life

You know how life can sometimes get in the way of quality time with your partner? The daily grind, the pressures, the endless to-do lists - it can all start to make you feel more like roommates than romantic partners....

3 Reasons Overcoming Trauma Feels Like A Lifelong Battle-image

3 Reasons Overcoming Trauma Feels Like A Lifelong Battle

Trauma can shape the way a person thinks, reacts, and navigates daily life long after the original event has ended. Many people wonder why they still feel shaken years later, even when their surroundings have changed. The fact is that...

3 Clues Your Nervous System Is Still Stuck in Survival Mode-image

3 Clues Your Nervous System Is Still Stuck in Survival Mode

What is stress to you? It’s marvelous how this word is casually thrown around. A lot of it has to do with the misunderstanding that stress is simply about ‘being too busy’ or ‘having too much on one’s plate.’ What...

Why Didn’t I Protect Them? Dealing With Guilt When Loved Ones Suffer-image

Why Didn’t I Protect Them? Dealing With Guilt When Loved Ones Suffer

Relationships have an entire assortment of flavors: the sweet memories of togetherness, the bitter pangs of being apart. One of the worst experiences can be witnessing your loved one in pain and feeling unable to make a change. The associated...

Dealing With the Impact of Long-Term Illness on Relationships-image

Dealing With the Impact of Long-Term Illness on Relationships

What happens to love when sickness moves in uninvited? It's a question most of us avoid until we can't anymore. Chronic illness doesn't just challenge the person living with it. It reshapes every relationship around them, quietly testing bonds we...

Emotional Wounds and Physical Aches: The Trauma Connection Explained-image

Emotional Wounds and Physical Aches: The Trauma Connection Explained

You know the expression, “dying from a broken heart?” Many folks dismiss it and associate the phrase with teens being over dramatic or the shock of ending an intense relationship. That’s because you probably haven’t heard of “takotsubo cardiomyopathy.” Also...

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