Keeping the Flame Alive After Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day often comes with grand gestures, romantic dinners, and a surge of shared excitement. But what happens after the holiday decorations are put away and life returns to its usual rhythm? Many couples notice that the spark that seemed so effortless around Valentine’s Day starts to fade. Keeping passion, romance, and intimacy alive requires intention, connection, and consistent effort, not just on special occasions, but every day.
Being Your Own Secure Attachment: Self-Love Beyond Valentine’s Day
Every February, Valentine’s Day arrives with a very loud message: love is something you find outside yourself. But really, the capacity for security already exists within you.
Narrative Therapy: Valentine’s Day Edition
Valentine’s Day is marketed as a holiday for people in relationships, with pressure from corporations to buy expensive gifts of jewelry, chocolate, and flowers. These narratives can cause fights between couples and other relationships when narratives or expectations aren’t communicated effectively.
Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail: A Polyvagal Perspective on Burnout
For many people, January isn’t energizing, it’s exhausting. The pressure to “start strong” can lead us to pile too much onto our plates too quickly.
What if this year wasn’t about doing more, but about listening better?
When Love Hurts in Patterns: Understanding the Cycle of Abuse
Most people that come to therapy don’t come in saying, “I’m in an abusive relationship.”
They come in saying, “Something feels wrong, but I can’t explain why.”
Riding the Waves of Emotion: How Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Distress Tolerance, and Pendulation Work Together
Do you ever feel like your emotions hit you in a single, overwhelming wave, too big, too fast, too much? Or maybe you’ve heard, “You’re too sensitive,” enough times that you’ve started to believe you can’t handle your own emotional world.
How to Set Boundaries as a Couple: Holiday Edition
Have you ever had a conversation with your partner about having more firm expectations with their family or your family? Have you ever felt like you and your partner can’t start your own holiday traditions because someone’s extended family monopolizes the holidays? This article can help you learn how to start setting boundaries and reinforcing them to strengthen your relationships and cultivate peace during the holiday season.
Holiday Boundaries 101: How Families Can Stay Connected this Season
Boundaries aren’t about limiting closeness, they’re about protecting it. When you move through the holidays with clarity, consistency, and compassion for yourself, you create space for more genuine connection with the people you love.
Understanding the Relationship Between Parts Work and Attachment and How to Heal Your Wounded Parts
Attachment is dynamic which means it can change based on the experiences we have with close loved ones, also called attachment figures. This means we can have multiple types of attachment styles depending on the relationship. We can also have multiple “parts” depending on our experiences. Our attachment style might dictate how these “parts” react and the behaviors they might develop.
Navigating Cuffing Season: How Attachment Shapes Your Relationships
Attachment shapes how we connect, trust, and feel safe in relationships. In recent years, terms like “anxious” or “avoidant” have become common online, but what’s often missing is how to move toward secure attachment.
Fall Into Connection: 3 Mindful Moments to Incorporate with Your Kiddo This Season
Just like the trees let go of their leaves, fall invites us to release what we no longer need. It’s a time of reflection, slowing down, and finding warmth in togetherness. These small mindful moments, raking, walking, breathing, help kids feel grounded and valued.
Even 10 minutes of your presence teaches a child:
"You matter. You are worth my attention. You belong."