Translating Mom-Speak and Dad-Speak
In relationships, women generally tend to focus on feeling connected, while men are sensitive to status and dominance. Each gender style is valid and skill with the other gender’s style lets you shift gears effectively, depending on what’s needed.
Being Well Podcast: Unilateral Virtue
Waiting for others to change first creates deadlocks, vicious cycles, and a sense of helplessness. The alternative is unilateral virtue, the focus of our episode today.
Being Well Podcast: Growing Compassion & Kindness
In this episode, we learn how to expand upon empathy so we can warm the heart and develop greater compassion and kindness as personal traits.
Supporting Positive Motivation in Teenagers
In this column we will explore how parents can support the development of the positive motivations within their kids that will draw them toward productive and healthy paths.
Being Well Podcast: Empathy
Today we’re focusing on Empathy, which allows us to tune into and understand other people. Empathy is a key social skill that helps us make sense of nuance, read intentions correctly, recognize the hurt under anger, and communicate and interact more skillfully.
Restoring Love
Keeping romantic love alive in the midst of raising kids and earning a living is one of the hardest things that anyone can do. By keeping commitments, building a framework and using a variety of tools, you can turn things around.
Being Well Podcast: Intimacy and Autonomy
Learn about Intimacy, focusing on how to balance two seemingly conflicting goals: maintaining our independence from other people while also forging emotionally intimate relationships with them.
Foundations of Love
Just parenting itself is very difficult. The larger task of making a family — earning a living, maintaining a marriage, juggling schedules, managing a household, etc. etc. — is even harder. This article explores what to do individually and as a couple to keep the flame of love burning.
Being Well Podcast: Pursuing Your Goals
Forrest Hanson interviews Dr. Rick Hanson about his personal story of motivation – including how to transform from someone who lacks a natural feeling of motivation to someone who can diligently pursue their goals.
Preserving Intimacy with Teenagers
In this column we will explore how parents can nurture an intimacy with their kids that can survive the (usually) wild ride of adolescence.