Essential Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): If you’re not in jail, it’s because you’ve used DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), despite it’s clinical and mysterious sound, it quite familiar and absolutely essential to functioning well in life and in relationships.
How to Ensure that the Blessing of Children is also a Blessing to your Marriage
A baby changes a marriage. Every parent knows this. But what does the research say about these changes? And most importantly, what does it tell us about how to protect the health of the marriage while we tend to the well-being of the children? Answers from The Gottman Institute and its Bringing Baby Home® curriculum inform this article.
Relationships live in this Dynamic Tension
Have you ever wondered why interdependent relationships are so hard? This is why…
Feelings or Thoughts? Thoughts or Feelings?
Other-Protection as the Universal Antidote to Destructive Patterns
Research has given us words for behaviors and patterns that destroy marriages. The good news is that there is one word that counters them all.
Marital Stages
The stages of marriage are here compared to marriage (or long-term relationship) stages when affected by addiction, by personality disorders (specifically borderline and narcissism) and by other mental health conditions.
Why married couples stop talking to each other
Why would a couple so engaged in conversation when dating, essentially stop talking to each other?
What the heck is the gospel?
Evicting Christ from our Marriages?
Focus Found: Life at the Intersection of Theology, Therapy, and Photography
Isolation
Visio Divina
Real Relationships
It all begins with an idea.
Can Narcissists Change? A pathway.
Can narcissists or those with narcissistic tendencies change? If so, how?
Are We Responsible for Others’ Feelings? Are They Responsible for Our’s?
We’re not responsible for others’ feelings, and they’re not responsible for our’s, but we’re both responsible for how we influence each other.
A Few Relationship Essentials
There are some things no relationship—certainly no marriage—can do without.
What is a Narcissist? A Sociopath? A Psychopath?
What distinguishes a narcissist from a sociopath from a psychopath?
Abuse, Narcissism, Borderline and Individual Therapy: Uses and misuses for addressing couple dynamics
Abuse, Narcissism, Borderline, and individual therapy all provide insights into understanding relationships dysfunction. And from all of those insights, necessary self-protective boundaries might be drawn. However, there are limits to each for properly identifying and effectively changing unhealthy relationship dynamics into healthy ones.
Better Alternatives to Unhealthy Relating
If your relationship is unhealthy, look to excise these and replace them with better alternatives.
Relationships live in this Dynamic Tension
Have you ever wondered why interdependent relationships are so hard? This is why…