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Jun 25

Rules of Engagement: seek connection

Guidelines for Joining In contemporary digital interactions, explicit guidelines often accompany our participation in listservs and...

Jun 25

Loneliness is killing us.

Social connection has healing effects In 2023, the surgeon general declared loneliness and isolation an epidemic in America. Feelings of...

Jun 19

5 Things to Do to Create Connection

Relationship cycle Early in a relationship we feel all of the chemical flush of serotonin and dopamine that draws us together. When this...

Jun 10

Surviving or Thriving?

Survival By survival, I mean our default wiring that is always scanning the horizon for cues or signals of danger. It could be as minor...

Jan 3, 2023

Don't Know Much About Biology

Love and happiness are biological.

Jun 27, 2022

What Was It Like When You Were a Child During the Pandemic?

I imagine today’s generation of young people being asked this question by their children in the next generation. This is a historic mome...

Jun 25, 2022

Good Enough!

How Are You? Good enough! The first memorable time I heard that phrase was when my supervisor responded to my query “How are you?”...

Jun 25, 2022

Welcome to the Relationship Hall of Fame

Hall of Famers At Bat: John Gottman’s research tells us that 67%* of the differences between partners are unresolvable and THIS ...

Jun 25, 2022

Things To Do To Calm Your Inner Yikes!

Desperate Times Just when we thought it was safe enough to live again, all of our hope, optimism, and relief were rudely yanked away...

Jun 25, 2022

New Year, New Us!

As we looked back on the last year, my husband said, “we have had an amazing year, despite all of the hard things that have happened.”...

May 20, 2021

What does biology have to do with relationships?

Would you like to get a cup of coffee? That moment when he first walked over to me, my heart was pounding. I can still see myself all of...

Nov 4, 2020

Ten Things I Love About You

What I really want in a partner… I keep reading articles about relationship red flags to look for in your partner. There are lists of...