Painful Past in Relationships 
Your Early Relationship with Mom and Your Intimate Adult Relationships (0)
“The ability to trust, love, and resolve conflict with loved ones starts in childhood — way earlier than you may think. That is one message of a new review of the literature in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science.” This is the lead-off in a recent article, [...]
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Emotional Wounds: Ways They Can Show Up in Your Relationship
Do you believe things that happened in your past can impact how you function in your relationships? If you don’t, you’re not alone. Being a psychotherapist who works with individuals and couples, I’ve heard countless time, “The past is done. There’s no point in rehashing old stuff.” It’s certainly not useful to get stuck on [...]
4 “Must-Knows” for a Happy, Healthy and Connected Relationship
After attending the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington DC this past week, I came away with some very important and research supported “tidbits” from some of the top thinkers in couples and relationship health. If you are currently in a relationship, consider the following list and how it might improve your understanding of it. If you are not [...]
Staying Put after a Lifetime of Abandonment and Grand Exits by Amy Eden
First you’re abandoned, then you live with an urge to flee. I have spent my entire life anxiously ready for things to fall apart. My shoulders are never completely without tension, same for my eyes in their sockets. There’s always the potential for a need to leave. I have spent my entire life ready to [...]
