Active Listening Guidelines: 4 Questions to Help You Understand Your Partner Better
Effective communication includes active listening, and both can be had by intentional practice. Time, practice, and intentional actions add up over time, and the result is healthier interactions. Here is some dos and don’ts of active listening.
Am I Being Religiously or Spiritually Abused?
Religious or spiritual abuse is a topic that is a tricky subject since right and wrong are often the guidelines that Spiritual communities serve, it can get confusing.
Why Can’t My Spouse Just Get Over My Affair Already?
Whether sexual in nature or strictly emotional, affairs take place when needs that are to be met inside one’s marriage are sought to be met outside of it. One thing leads to another, and the lines begin to blur. Here are steps for restoration and why it is important to let the recovery timeframe be from offended spouse.
Is Porn Harmful?
Is porn harmful? But an even better question is, “Why is it harmful?” This question is discussed in this blog and may shed some light on the truth about porn.
Listening to What Isn’t Being Said
To listen to what isn’t being said, it is important to realize that communication takes place in ways that are more than simply words being uttered or written. Non-verbal communication can speak volumes.
How to Move Forward After Betrayal
There is no right or wrong way to begin moving forward due to the fact that everyone defines what betrayal is differently and experiences it differently. It is not weak to get help. In fact, it carries an incredible amount of strength due to the very nature of vulnerability that is needed.
Are you playing with your partner?
Often our experience of the mundane aspects of life gets in the way of being able to have fun or enjoy something creative and novel. The ironic thing about play is that it is an executive function in our brain that creates social bonding, opens creative opportunities, and produces natural healing properties in the body.*