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Healing Hearts: How Caring for Others Can Heal You Too-image

Healing Hearts: How Caring for Others Can Heal You Too

Everyone experiences some type of trauma in their lifetime. For most people, it happens during the formative years when their childhoods are robbed from them in the blink of an eye. A recent study published in Biological Psychiatry suggests that...

5 Reasons Why Empathy Is the New Relationship Superpower-image

5 Reasons Why Empathy Is the New Relationship Superpower

An AI chatbot could be the boyfriend we didn’t know we needed until now, or at least that’s what Cosmopolitan writer Annabel Iwegbue discovered. Her curiosity got the better of her when she came across r/MyBoyfriendIsAI on Reddit. The thread...

How to Support Your Partner’s Career Dreams-image

How to Support Your Partner’s Career Dreams

How do you react when your partner tells you that they’re chasing something new? Maybe it’s a total career pivot, starting a business, or finally pursuing that advanced degree. How will you respond in that moment? Being in a relationship...

How To Make Good Decisions When You Feel Guilty-image

How To Make Good Decisions When You Feel Guilty

I hear this all the time: How can I make a decision without feeling guilty? How can I say no and not feel like a bad wife, child, mother, or friend? Guilt impedes decision-making. It clouds your judgment and keeps...

My Lessons on Letting Go-image

My Lessons on Letting Go

If you learn to let go, your life will take off. The idea of letting things go in our life sounds so sad, but I’m going to address these one by one, because it is actually the holding on that...

7 Tips for Healing After a Breakup-image

7 Tips for Healing After a Breakup

Let’s face it, breakups feel like trauma—especially when you didn’t want it. And even if you were the one who initiated it, it can still crush you. Sometimes we have to do what we have to do, even though it...

Laughter and the Strong Woman- Using Laughter as a Form of Self Care-image

Laughter and the Strong Woman- Using Laughter as a Form of Self Care

Philosopher and psychologist, William James said,  “We don’t laugh because we’re happy, we are happy because we laugh.” He understood, more than a century ago- laughter makes us feel good. Today, we’re still exploring the many health benefits and embracing concepts...

Are You Doing Boundaries Wrong?-image

Are You Doing Boundaries Wrong?

I notice that some people who recognize the importance of boundaries seem to be missing the mark when it comes to erecting healthy ones. I had a conversation with someone online that quickly took a wrong turn. Her response to...

Making Joint Decisions in Your Relationship When You’d Rather Not-image

Making Joint Decisions in Your Relationship When You’d Rather Not

Decisions are tough to make when you’re single. They’re doubly tough when you’re a couple. Toss in a little conflict and they can feel downright impossible.  And it’s no surprise that you don’t agree. If you subscribe to the idea...

Consider This Before You Promise To Change For Your Partner-image

Consider This Before You Promise To Change For Your Partner

Here’s the scenario. Something happened. You messed up again. Your partner gave you an ultimatum or you hit rock bottom on some level. Maybe the scale screamed a number bigger than you have seen or even want to admit. Maybe...

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