Relationship Tools and Skills, One Article at a Time
Our collection of short, informative articles offer essential tools and skills to help you reshape your relationships around your needs. Each article offers opportunities to explore new ways for you to:
Understand your true relationship needs
Raise your awareness in attachment and mindfulness
Embrace a growth mindset in your relationship
Fix what feels broken in your relationship or relationship patterns
Keep what feels right in your relationship or relationship patterns
Why your support system could be the missing piece in your healing from depression, anxiety or eating disorder
It takes a village. The Crucial Role of Support Systems for Emerging Adults in Recovery from Eating Disorders, Anxiety, and Depression.
Shedding labels: Growing from the anxious one to defining your own role
Despite all the effort you’ve put into therapy, the growth that you’ve experienced in your life, no one seems to notice except you. While people in your system may be slow to catch on, remember that other peoples’ ability to adapt to your changed behavior will likely be slow, and that your progress is still valid!
Facts not feelings
I’d like to offer you a reminder that your feelings are not facts. While they may feel real - feeling anxious may often lead to feeling a rapid heartbeat or getting that heavy feeling in your chest - this does not mean that your feelings are ultimate truths. Consider instead that your feelings are guides - they offer important clues and insight into what you need to attend to in your body and mind.
Party of 1: The truth about change in therapy
What happens when I change but the people around me stay the same? Don’t they have to change, too? The short answer is: to see benefits and experience growth in therapy, the only thing that needs to change is you.