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Why You Need a Post-Argument Review with Your Partner

If you and your partner are getting into the same arguments over and over, you may not be correcting the communication habits that lead to the problem. Part of my and my husband’s problem was our bad communication. We came to our relationship with bad communication habits and had little experience with healthy boundaries. Identifying […]

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7 Small Changes that Made My Marriage Better

Long term relationships are so rewarding but they take intentional work. Intentional work in my relationship looks like self-exploration and awareness. We’re two individuals who want to support happiness, peacefulness, and stability in each other. Doing so requires being open to what each of those things looks like to the other person. Over time, my […]

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How to Figure Out What Healthy Boundaries Mean for You

Healthy boundaries allow us to find the right people to participate in our care communities. But what does the relationship building process look like and how do we coordinate our relationship building process with others? In other words, how do we figure out and communicate our own healthy boundaries and build strong care communities? One […]

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How to Manage Emotional Vulnerability

Emotional vulnerability is one of the greatest ways to connect with others, it’s an indiscriminate force. We’re all deeply impacted by vulnerability whether it’s in sharing our own or accessing the vulnerability in others. Fundamentally, it’s how we show our humanness and how we see humanness in others. This can trigger people in a bad […]

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Take a Peek Into Your Emotional Framework

Understanding our emotional framework allows us to build a healthy self awareness and get our needs met in effective and productive ways. We can build healthier, more sustainable relationships by looking at our emotional framework and understanding how we operate in terms of balancing our needs with the needs of others. Every relationship depends on […]

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How to Express Our Feelings without Holding Back

Oftentimes when we want to express our feelings, we worry about how they’ll be received. Being in a relationship means concerning yourself with others feelings. If we’re over concerned, or over empathizing, we end up suppressing our own feelings or needs in unhealthy ways. Balancing our feelings, needs, capacity with what someone else needs is […]

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How to Identify Your Feelings with Clarity

Identify your feelings with clarity by being open and honest with yourself. Blocking our feelings, or lacking the ability to identify them, happens as a result of telling ourselves that we should or shouldn’t feel that way. We’re ashamed of our feelings so instead of sharing them we talk ourselves out of having them at […]

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The 3 Foundational Principles of How to be Happy with Yourself

There are three three foundational principles of how to be happy with yourself. Following these principles will allow you to bring awareness to your true self, explore your needs in a more open and authentic way, and connect with the right people. Each principle relies on personal honesty and commitment to self. When you follow […]

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