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Rules of Engagement: seek connection
Guidelines for Joining In contemporary digital interactions, explicit guidelines often accompany our participation in listservs and...
Hayley Hoffman
Jun 25, 2024


Loneliness is killing us.
Social connection has healing effects In 2023, the surgeon general declared loneliness and isolation an epidemic in America. Feelings of...
Hayley Hoffman
Jun 25, 2024


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...
Hayley Hoffman
Jun 19, 2024


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...
Hayley Hoffman
Jun 11, 2024


Don't Know Much About Biology
Love and happiness are biological.
Hayley Hoffman
Jan 3, 2023


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...
Hayley Hoffman
Jun 27, 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?”...
Hayley Hoffman
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 ...
Hayley Hoffman
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...
Hayley Hoffman
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.”...
Hayley Hoffman
Jun 25, 2022


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...
Hayley Hoffman
May 20, 2021


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...
Hayley Hoffman
Nov 4, 2020
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