Growing up, we learn how to navigate relationships and understand our worth based on our early experiences, especially within our families and communities. Our interactions with family members, teachers, and peers shape our understanding of how we should be treated […]
In 1970 a psychologist named Dr.Gotmann and researcher Robert Leverson did a study on couples where they observed the way they dealt with conflict and then had them come back 9 years later to see how the relationship panned out. […]
Do you feel as if nothing ever goes your way and nothing you do is ever good enough? Maybe you feel like no one really shows you they care about you or you feel like you get taken advantage of […]
Codependency is when you did not feel validated, heard or your needs were not met as a child so the way you learned to cope with that was by helping, fixing, people-pleasing, and taking care of others to feel the […]
Emotional unavailability is when someone is not open to discussing their feelings or go deeper in some sort of way. They have a hard time emotionally connecting and they try to run from it. The reason why people become emotionally […]
Fear of abandonment is something a lot of us struggle with. We fear that someone close to us will leave and we will never experience those feelings again. Or we fear we won’t have our needs met outside of them. […]
Identifying what a healthy relationship looks like can be tough as a lot of us didn’t see healthy relationships growing up. Maybe we did not see what healthy communication looks like, what love is, or what it feels like to […]
Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are in your relationships? Were you ever distant, nervous/insecure, or comfortable in your relationships? There is a theory that may be able to explain that for you. It is called […]
The way we learn to communicate is taught by our upbringing. Most people are taught unhealthy communication styles and have a hard time communicating. No one is a perfect communicator! If you were brought up in an unhealthy home then […]
Resentment is a relationship killer. Resentment comes from feeling unable to express yourself and unmet expectations. That is why it is important to learn how to deal with it as well as forgive. Forgiveness does not always come with an […]
