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Mindfulness practice was first introduced to me about 4 or 5 years ago and I’m going to be honest, I thought it was so weird. I was in grad school and my professor had us close our eyes and pay…
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Being more mindful and creating this regular practice has allowed me to feel like I’m not missing my life and my marriage. It’s not passing me by.
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Oh criticism, where should we begin? I don’t think I need to put much effort in to convince you that criticism has some huge negative consequences. I think it’s also fair to assume that we’ve all experienced our fair share…
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Conflict is one of those things in relationships that no one likes to talk about or acknowledge that it exists. We skirt around it in conversations with friends and we fear the judgments of others if they knew that we…
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Have you ever been in a fight and at the end of it the other person says something like, “Why can’t you just say sorry?!” It’s a legitimate question. Why can’t you? In many cases, I think it’s just that…
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The Research Behind What Makes Marriages Work vs. Struggling Marriages Several years back when I was studying psychology during my undergrad I was required to read a book called Blink by Malcom Gladwell. It’s a very interesting read that I…
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Early on in my marriage my husband and I had a certain fight that would come up from time to time. It always started differently and the topic of the fight would change but it usually ended the same way. …
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Something that has been on my mind a lot lately is the idea of “embracing the chaos of life” so I thought I’d spend some time talking about this. It’s actually become a bit of a motto for me lately….
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