Healing Through Relationship

  Pleasure leaves a fingerprint as surely as mortal pain,   In memories they resonate and echo back again… -Neil Peart If you are a fellow fan of the band Rush, you might recognize this 30-year-old line from their song Scars.  It speaks of the...

Ways to Appreciate Your Spouse During Quarantine

  With almost everyone sheltering in place, working from home, or not working at all, it can be easy to lose focus on the relationship with your spouse. Maybe the two of you were close before and now there is a lot in the way, or maybe you were already living...

The Best Communication Technique

    If I only had five minutes to change someone’s life, I would give them this DEARMAN tool.  A DEARMAN is a communication tool from dialectical behavior therapy which was designed by Marsha Linehan.1 It is a tool that helps us to connect and...

Your Child’s Love Language, Words of Affirmation

  As a continuation of the series on your child’s love language, have you thought about how to give them words of affirmation? It is more than saying “I love you” as much as you can. Although saying those three words are essential, there are...

Your Child’s Love Language, Physical Touch

  What does it mean to physically love your children? As part of the love languages of children series, here is what physical touch is for your child. After we go through the 5 love languages for children, I’ll write more about how to tell which is your...