Find Out What to Expect at Couples Therapy Don’t know what to expect at couples therapy? If so, you are in the right place. I am in the middle of a 4-part blog series about what you need to know prior to your first couples therapy appointment. Feel free to check out my first …
Marital Therapy: 3 Common Misconceptions Are you getting ready to attend marital therapy? If so, this blog series is for you! If you haven’t already read the first article in this series on marital therapy, it is here. As a Marriage and Family Therapist, many couples come into my office with misconceptions and false expectations …
Tips for First Couples Therapy Session (From a Couples Therapist) Get excited! I’ve decided to do a blog series on helping you to prepare and give you tips for your first couples therapy session. I think it is important to equip incoming couples with information to help set realistic expectations. After all, when expectations …
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12 Signs of Shame In a Man Shame is such a painful emotion, we humans often try to bury it. And we are so good at burying it, we don’t even know when we feel shame. And as I’ve discussed in a previous blog, you can’t tame what you can’t name! The susceptibility to …
The Alternative To Shaming Labels In my last blog post, I took a deep dive into label shaming. I shared research that indicates cultures that use a label to define a whole person (or group) have greater problems with crime and recidivism. Our culture happens to be a label-shaming culture. Shaming labels are …
What’s Label Shaming & Why Is It Toxic? First, let me say that labeling objects, people, and things is essential to human survival. For example, it is vital to have a word to indicate if something is poisonous. Without the word “poison” we wouldn’t be able to communicate to others whether or not a …
Where Is Shame Held In the Body? Thanks to the work of Brene Brown there has been a national conversation around the concept of shame. In case you haven’t come in contact with Brown’s work, let me give you her definition of shame: Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that …
Healing After An Affair This is the final post in my series about the topic of infidelity. Over the course of the blog series, I’ve discussed common marriage reconciliation mistakes to avoid after infidelity. To read the first 4 mistakes, head over here. To learn about 2 important ground rules to set, head here. …
Boundaries After Infidelity: What You Need To Consider If an affair has recently come to light- regardless if you are the betrayed or the unfaithful- your world has been turned upside down. You probably can’t concentrate on much of anything… much less make thoughtful decisions that will have long-term consequences…. But healthy boundaries after infidelity …
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Ground Rules After Cheating: What You Need To Know After uncovering the affair, your world may feel like it is spinning out of control. Things in your life and in your relationship feel like they need to change immediately! However, I encourage you to slow down your thinking before taking action. Sometimes our …
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