If January is all about new beginnings, goals and resolutions, February is about LOVE; Valentine’s Day being the cherry on the top the love month. While I don’t want to be a naysayer about Valentine’s Day, I’m more of a Valentine’s Day ~ All Day, Every Day fan. Love should be Expanded! During the later years of my marriage, Valentine’s Day was tough. It was … (Read more)
Life is fluid. It’s always happening and sometimes it feels like it’s happening on steroids. This might be one of those times. Between the contentious political environment, the fear and uncertainty of far too many terror attacks and the devastation of the natural disasters that all seem to happen one after another, life can feel unsettling and chaotic. Whether they are the happenings in the world around us … (Read more)
In our work with relationships, experience teaches that struggles and challenges are a natural aspect of relating… even the most successful ones. Our differences with one another is a given. Avoiding and running away from conflict particularly in loving, intimate relationships never works. It will somehow always catch up to us. I’m a big fan of John Gottman. He is a professor of psychology known for his … (Read more)
Have you experienced an act of kindness lately? I wanted to share what one looked like for me just the other evening. On my nightly walks with Chris and our dog, Chloe, we pass a home where a young man most always sits in the garage facing the street. The music is playing on a radio; sometimes it’s a broadcast of a summer baseball game. … (Read more)