Four Steps to Make Friends Who are Emotionally Safe
Ready to make friends or to begin dating? Here are four simple steps to make new and emotionally safe relationships. Yes, you can make new friends.
How to Forgive Your Parents to Heal Yourself
Your biological parents cannot be switched. Your past cannot be changed. However, your perspective can change. Consider how you might forgive your parents.
Explore Your Childhood Wounds to Be a More Resilient Adult
One of the most effective ways to strengthen personal resilient is to explore your childhood wounds.
How to Really Listen to Your Body Wisdom
You can experience the true knowing of your body wisdom Your body is more than skin and bones. It is a vessel of truth. Tune into yourself from head to toe!
Talk2MorePeople by Tony Esteves – Book Summary
Talk2MorePeople is like a communication and connection bible with a mix of personal vignettes, research, challenges, exercises, tools, and resources.
Research on Resilience to COVID-19
Research that supports resilience to COVID-19 serves us in most situations. Attending to our mental health is important no matter what.
Revisit Your Idea of Mother Love
Mother Love Like many mothers, I have had breakfast served in bed by broad smiling children. Yes, on Mothers Day. Some years, I probably did not deserve the honor! Curious? Read on! The Beginning of Mother’s Day Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia began the campaign that brought about the official observance of Mother’s Day. Her mother […]
Exploration of Sex and Gender Differences
Women are still under-represented in all levels of government and in corporation boardrooms. At the same time, women are over-represented in family shelters.
Volunteer Work Creates Helper’s High
One of the most effective ways of building resilience and bounce back from adversity is to lend a helping hand to others. Many people have experienced the boost helping gives them; hence the term helpers high when we do volunteer work. My own experience supports this idea. When our daughter, Kelly, was lost in the […]
It’s All About Power and Control (Marriage) – Book Summary
A summary of Norman L. Quantz’s book, It’s All About Power and Control: Why Marriages Fall Apart and What It Takes to Put Them Back Together Again.
Journaling: Here’s Why and How To Do It
There are as many ways to journal as there are reasons.
Man Therapy to Empowered Sage
It is well known that fewer men than women seek therapy and that is well supported by my case load. Sometimes a male therapist is a better fit . . .