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Can the Worst of Times Bring Out the Best in Us?
9 Essential Lessons COVID-19 can Teach.

January 2025 Newsletters

Why We're Drawn To Fresh Starts
The 2-Word Secret to a Happier You
The Affirmation You Should Cultivate for the New Year

Newsletter Archive -2024-

What Your Laughter Reveals About Your Relationship.
Do You and Your Partner Laugh at the Same Things.
8 Ways to Laugh More.

Newsletter Archive -2023-

Why Thinking Positively Doesn’t (Always) Work.
C’mon, Get Happy 10 Ways to Find More Happiness in Your Life.
3 Tips to Stay More Present in the Present.
Meeting New People, Making New Friends.
Stop Seeking Love and Start Finding It.
Wired for Love: Are You an Anchor, an Island, or a Wave? The Case for Intergenerational Connections
The Value of Intergenerational Relationships.
8 Ideas for Intergenerational Fun at Life Time?
How to Find the ‘Real’ You.
6 Ways to Discover and Choose Your Core Values.
Who Am I.
It’s Not You. It’s the World.
Feeling Stressed It Might Be Your Liver Calling.
5 Techniques for Managing Stress in the Moment.
Does Your Inner Voice Bring You Down.
6 Difficult Emotions and How to Deal With Them.
5 Strategies to Cope With Bottled-Up Emotions.
Relationship Attachment Style Test.
Two Routes to a Healthier Attachment Style.
How Different Attachment Styles Affect Relationships.

Newsletter Archive -2022-

The New Years Resolution That Will Make Your Relationship Better.
5 Questions to Ask Your Partner About How They Handle Conflict.
Why Trust Matters and How to Build More of It.
Give Your Dog the Gift of Enrichment.
9 Ways to Celebrate Valentine’s Day with your Pet.
Five Ways to Feel Connected on Valentine's Day.
Overcoming the Need to Please.
The 3 Most Common Causes of Insecurity and How to Beat Them.
6 Mental Habits That Will Wear You Down.
An Open Letter to Depressed Teenagers 10 Things You Can Do.
How to Transform Depression With Hope.
The Real Crisis of Teen Mental Health.
Why Your Teen Is Glued to Her Screens.
18 Ways to Break Your Cellphone Habit.
4 Ways to Help Kids Change Their Cellphone Habits.
The Overexamined Life.
A Hostage Crisis How to Free Yourself From Your Thoughts.
How to Stop Ruminating.
The Science of How to Enjoy Your Vacation.
Why Purpose Is a Requirement for Happiness.
Embrace Your Sensitivities.
9 Easy Ways to Start a Conversation with a Stranger.
10 Characteristics of Mentally Healthy People.
NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH 4 Strategies to Filter Out Fear.
Disorienting Dilemmas How to Find Your Purpose and Act on It.
How to Stop Expecting the World to Live Up to Your Expectations.
7 Ways to Tell That You’re Not Living Your Highest Purpose in Life and What To Do About It.
How to Play as an Adult.
How Adults Can Cultivate More Play Into Life Everyday.
The Benefits of Play for Adults.
How to Eliminate Work-Related Anxiety From Your Weekends.
Finding Peace in an Anxious World.
4 Ways to Treat Anxiety.
2 Essentials for a Secure and Stable Relationship.
2 Patterns That Can Spoil the Goodness of Your Relationship.
How We Lose Ourselves in Relationships.

Newsletter Archive -2021-

Ten Fears You Choose to Face When You Give Up Control
The 7 Skills Necessary to Overcome Fear
Can You Ever Judge Yourself as Good Enough
5 Ways Perfectionism and Depression Can Feed Off Each Other
A Whole-Person Approach to Treating Depression
5 Ways to Stay Connected While Confined
How to Breathe
Trying to Unwind
Two Behaviors That Can Calm You Completely
9 Questions to Ask Your Partner About Play and Adventure
Play Together Stay Together
Date Night Couples That Play Together Stay Together
Healthy Love vs Addiction
What Is Love Addiction
How to Break the Pattern of Love Addiction
Are You Bad at Dating or Are You Insecurely Attached
Why Knowing Our Attachment Style Matters in the Digital Age
Working Through Attachment Issues in Adult Relationships
How Can I Encourage My Child to Try a New Activity
Five Qualities to Encourage in Your Kids
50 Tiny (but Powerful!) Ways You Can Encourage Your Kids Every Day
3 Ways to Improve How You Say Thank You.
Five Relationship Boosts You Can Try Today.
3 Easy Ways to Keep Being a Happy Couple.
Friendships Enrich your life and improve your health.
Why Friends Are Essential to Our Well.
6 Ways Friendship Is Good for You.
Differentiation Is the Crucial Relationship Skill You Need.
How To Grow Up.
Differentiation of Self in Romantic Relationships.
Flip Your Consciousness: 4 Types of Awareness.
Becoming Aware of Being Unaware.
How to Reclaim Your Attention Span.

Newsletter Archive -2020-

Four Things to Create a Quarantine of Kindness.
3 Tips for Making the Most of the COVID.
How to Cope With the Stress of Coronavirus.
Has the Coronavirus Made Us More Human?
7 Ways to Emerge from COVID-19 - Stronger and Happier.
Mama, Take Care of Yourself During COVID-19.
How to Deal with Pandemic Burnout.
How to Stay Connected While Practicing Social Distancing.
Useful Wellness and Mental Health Apps.
Quick Ways to Get Out in Nature.
How Nature Boosts Your Health.
Walking in Nature Can Change Your Brain.
Go Outside! Take a Walk Throw a Ball Splash in Puddles.
Self Care in a Busy World.
Strategies for Self-Care While Social Distancing.
5 Truths About Self-Care.
How to Help Kids Cope With Situational Anxiety.
3 Steps to Coping with a Panic Attack.
Science-Backed Ways to Lower Anxiety During the Pandemic.
Managing Conflict in a Remote Environment.
The Only Person You Can Change Is You.
How to Say Sorry.
Coronavirus grief Coping with the loss of routine during the pandemic.
Grieving During COVID, These Tips Will Help.
One Thing You Shouldn't Say to a Bereaved Person Right Now.

Newsletter Archive -2019-

What Is Trust?
Why Trust Matters — and How to Build More of It
7 Ways to Become Trustworthy
10 Steps to Restoring Trust in Relationships
5 Reasons Slowing Down in 2019 Will Improve Your Life.
Your Mental Health Is Everything.
Protecting Your Mental Health When You're Multi-Passionate
3 Ways That Your Pet Can Heal Your Mind and Body.
How Do You Talk to Your Cat?.
How Pets Help Manage Depression.
Can You Change Someone Else by Changing Yourself.
The 10 Rules of Change.
How To Reinvent Yourself.
Psychological Gifts.
8 Ways to Channel Your Inner Child This Summer.
The Living Experiment.
Want your kids to be better readers, have dinner together.
Tips for busy families.
Science says eat with your kids.
Why the Family Meal Is Important.
The Essential Guide To Maintaining Friendships With Bipolar.
Diagnosis and Symptoms.
Partners for Life: Beating the Marriage Odds.
How Dealing with Bipolar Made This Young Couple Stronger.
Are Transitions a Challenge for You.
Stages of Change.
7 Strategies for Navigating Big Life Changes.
How to Practice Gratitude on Social Media.
Live One Second at a Time.
The Transformative Power of Gratitude.
Grateful for Getting Older.
How to Age Wisely.
Fearless Aging.
My Kids Refuse to Sleep! A 10-Step Plan to Win at Bedtime.
A Wakeup Call About Children's Sleep.
Screen Time and Insomnia.

Newsletter Archive -2018-

Overcoming the Fear of Solitude: 10 Thoughts
6 Reasons You Should Spend More Time Alone
The Healthy Aspects of Solitude
The Emotional Life of Single People
For Sleep That Eludes Millions, This To-Do List Offers Hope
6 Myths that May Be Interrupting Your Sleep
Five Practical (and Realistic) Tips for Going to Bed Earlier
The Connection Between Writing and Sleep
My Partner Has an Alcohol or Drug Problem
Communicating About Addiction
Overdose and Other Drug and Addiction Myths
Parenting and the Culture of Disrespect
Parenting: Respect Starts at Home
The Language of Respect
The New “Everyone Does It” 4 Important Talking Points about Vaping
The Latest Vaping Trend Parents Need to Know About: JUULING
The Teen Vaping Trend – What Parents Need to Know
Talking to Your Teen About E-Cigarettes
15 Signs You’re an Introvert With High-Functioning Anxiety
14 Things Introverts With Social Anxiety Wish You Knew
Coping with Anxiety
What to Do When You Feel Overstimulated and Overwhelmed
The Best-Kept Secret to a Highly Successful Relationship
Relationship Alert: When Givers Become Takers
Keeping Passion Alive After the "Honeymoon Stage" Is Over
You Wear Me Out
How Putting Away Your Smart Phone Can Help Your Mind
Going on an Electronics Diet
How To Unplug: 10 Ways To Live a Happier Life
Defining Limits on Technology as a Family
Keeping Secrets From Family – Is it Always Bad?
5 Reasons Why Keeping Family Secrets Could Be Harmful
One Secret of Successful Families: The Family Meeting
The Power of Secrets
How to Address Procrastination
Finish What You Start
12 Ways to Beat Procrastination
Suicide Awareness and Understanding
How to Reach Out to Someone Who May Be Suicidal
We Can All Prevent Suicide
Here Come the Holidays
10 Things to Do If You’re Alone for the Holidays
COMING CLEAN: How I’m Avoiding Holiday-Stress Syndrome

Newsletter Archive -2017-

Cell Phones and the Need to Listen.
10 Ways to Help Children Listen Better.
5 Ways to Be a Better Listener.
6 Family Valentine’s Day Activities
Parents and Valentine's Day
Seven Ways to Show Your Child Love on Valentine's Day
10 Signs You Are In a Relationship with a Narcissist
8 More Signs You're With a Narcissist
So You're In a Relationship with a Narcissist, Now What?
3 Mindfulness Tools that Help Parents Bond With Young Kids
Why It's So Important to Banter With Young Children
10 Ways to Use Walks to Teach and Bond With Young Kids
Inside Every Mother Is a Daughter
How Close is Too Close in Mother-Daughter Relationships?
Is It Always a Turf War? Adult Daughters and Their Mothers
15 Insights on Improving Mother-Daughter Relationships
Father and Son
Classic Father and Son Talk
Fathers & Sons: How to Be a Great Dad
Fathers, Sons and Sports
9 Things Your Neighbors Wish You Knew
How to Cope With a Bad Neighbor
Trust Your Neighbor, Boost Your Health
How Animals Heal Us and Teach Us
How Strong Is Children's Attachment to Their Pets?
What Dogs Can Teach Us about the Main Cause of Depression
What To Do When Someone You Love Votes For Someone You Hate
11 Keys to Mastering Difficult Conversations
LIFE, UNEDITED: The Value of Difficult Conversations
The Power of Kindness
3 Simple Ways to Spread Kindness
Better Living Through Empathy
Chores: Secrets To Winningthe Parent-Kids Chore-Wars
12 Basic Life SkillsEvery Kid Should Know by High School
10 Ways to Help Children Listen Better
Long Distance Love is a Touch and Talk Challenge
How Much Distance Can Your Relationship Tolerate?
Distant Relations
Relationship Revival

Newsletter Archive -2016-

Singles: Patterns of Pursuit
What Do You Really Know About Online Dating?
Dating: The Soft Breakup
The Simplest Way for a Couple to Boost Intimacy
Sex Esteem
My Sexy Valentine
The Changing Face of the Heroin Addict
Heroin Use: Signs, Symptoms of Heroin Use and Addiction
Fast Symptoms of Heroin Use
You, Me and Porn Make Three
Caught: Negotiating the Discovery of Your Man’s Porn
The Scientific Case for Owning Up to Your Porn Use
Does Nature Make us Happy
Walk in Nature: Good for Brain, Good for Spirit
Dosing Nature: Feeling Down, Take a 3 Minute Walk 2x a Day
Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone
5 Benefits of Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone
Introversion: 5 Strategies for Pushing Out Your Comfort Zone
Travel - The Ultimate Aphrodisiac
The Unexpected Gifts of Travel
15 Benefits That World Travel Can Have On Your Health
When Are You Old? Perspectives on Aging and Old Age
Positive Attitudes About Aging May Be a "Fountain of Youth"
The Older, the Better
Should You Stay or Go?
Contemplating Divorce? Answer Two Essential Questions First
The Psychological Stages of Divorce
Ending your Marriage with Integrity
The Divorce-Stress Scale
Feeling Guilty Backpain
Learning to Live well with Chronic Illness
Mindfulness and Compassion for Pain
How Are Digital Devices Changing the Way We Think?
Kids & Digital Dementia
Top Tips for a Digital Detox
Are You Holding Onto Feeling Wronged.
Forgive Me, Forgive me not.
How to Be a Better Forgiver.
How to Live Compassionately.

Newsletter Archive -2015-

5 Most Important Relationship Resolutions
Five Ways Snow Days Can Be Good for Your Relationship
5 Ways to Tell if a Relationship Might Last
Sweethearts in Training: 15 Tips
4 Ways to Boost Gratitude.
5 Ways to Keep Your Sanity This Valentine
Bad Luck, Bad Choices or Psychological Reversal
We Make Our Own Luck
Make Your Own Luck
Must-Have Coping Strategies for Social Anxiety
Talking to Your Child or Teen about Anxiety
Helping Your Anxious Child Overcome Bedtime Fears
Having An Affair? There Are Six Different Kinds
Infidelity See, Infidelity Do
Affairs: The Healing Process
Putting Kids Back Into Kids’ Sports
Teaching Good Sportsmanship
The Psychology of Youth Sports
How to be More Self-Loving
You Are Good Enough!
Love Yourself Before You Love Others
12 Ways You Can Love Yourself Now
Autism Fact Sheet
Autism Adult Transition: My Son Moves into His Own Place
Pets May Help Improve Social Skills of Children with Autism
Figuring Out Friendship - How an adult on the autism spectrum experiences friendship
Blended Family?
The Stepparent Waltz
Stepfamily Success
The Language of Respect
Taming the Bully in Your House
The Only Parenting Advice You Really Need.
Respect Activity Sheet.
What's Your Humor Style
7 Rules on Love
Laugh More Stress Less
The Empty Chair at the Holiday Table
Grief and the holidays
Learning to Float in Grief
Honoring the Loved One

Newsletter Archive -2014-

Want a Better Life? Read a Book
Getting Lost In a Good Book Can Help Keep You Healthy
Snowy Stories
8 Steps to Love and One Date Night
The Valentine Romance Scale
Depression and Non-Suicidal Self Injury
Why Kids Cut
Self-Injury - Online Test
Generations at Work
How to Get Along Better With Your Multigenerational Coworkers
Homelanders: The Next Generation
Developing a Self Greatly Shapes Your Sexual Desire
Lust for the Long Haul
What Marital Sex Statistics Can Reveal
Bringing Back the Unscheduled Summer Builds Empathy in Kids
Summer Advice for Grandparents
Sizzling Summer: Quotations, Reflections, and Paintings
How Emotionally Attached Are You to Your Pet?
The Bond Between Pet And Owner
Dogs and Sprinklers
Facebook Selfies and Romantic Relationships
Pressured to Sext
Dealing with Depression
Suicidal Thoughts: When Is It Time to Worry?
15 Warning Signs of Depression
Who's Overreacting
How to Stay Cool Under Pressure
A Fun App that Measures Stress
Anger Quiz
10 Ways for Caregivers to Nurture Themselves
Man the Fixer, Woman the Nurturer—the Caregiving Gender Gap
The Cares of Caregiving
Family Time, How To Find It, How To Make It
Family-Style Meals Are Good for Grown-Ups, Too
Stepfamilies and Holidays

Newsletter Archive -2013-

6 Big Relationship Busters
Making a Good Relationship Great
Planning for Baby
25 years and 252 days - the perfect age to have a baby
The Healing Lick
High-Achieving Women Think Differently
Are you a People Pleaser ?
Sleep Deficit: The Hidden Debt That’s Hurting Us All
The Healing Power of Sleep
THE SLEEP DEPRIVATION TEST
The Mental Game of Golf
Sports: Focus Control
How to Get a “Hole-in-One” kind of Relationship
Relationship Revival
Raise The Heat in Your Relationship This Summer
The Perils of Parenting a Tween
Survive Your Middle Schooler's Changing Behavior
How to Overcome Empty Nest Syndrome
Ten Ways to Support Your College Freshman
Play Together, Stay Together
Ha Ha!, Ah! and Ahh!
Feeling the Squeeze - The Stress of Caring for Two Generations
Your Parents, Yourself
Cinematherapy: Reel Therapy During the Holidays
A Bit of Holiday Humor to Brighten Your Day
Heartwarming Holiday Videos

Newsletter Archive -2012-

Parenting Your Teen with Less Stress
How to Build Your Teen’s Self-Esteem
The Quest for Happiness
Sustainable Happiness: Why It’s All About the Day-to-Day
The Relationship Checkup
Communication Skills for Lifelong Relationships
Normal Healthy Couples Have Sexual Desire Problems
What is the Right Couple Sexual Style for You?
Why iPhones Don't go to Summer Camp
50 Ways to Make the Most of Summer
The Ultimate Day Off
The Unplugged Vacation
Why We Worry
The High Anxiety
How to Stop Worrying
Anxiety and Relationships Part 1
Anxiety and Relationships Part 2
The Emotional Calendar
Savoring Life in Autumn
Bottled Up Emotions
The Link between Thanksgiving Gluttony and Black Friday Insanity
Family Dinners: Just Holiday Time or All the Time?
Alone at the Holidays: Ten Tips to Make Your Holiday a Good One
Talking With Children About the Connecticut School Shooting

Newsletter Archive -2010-

Skills for Making Your Marriage Thrive
Ten Ways to Keep Your Relationship Tuned Up
Managing Life Transitions
How to Recover from a Career Crisis