When You and Your Partner Are Living Parallel Lives: Seven Steps to Confront Apathy
All couples are running a business. There’s the business of household chores, of coordinating kids’ schedules or work trips out of town, of paying bills, or of taking care of aging parents. Times and places have to be negotiated. Jobs assigned. Divide and...314 SelfWork: Mother (Or Mother-In-Law) Trouble: Answering Your Questions
Today, I’ll be answering three listener questions about how to make successful transitions with their moms or mothers-in-law. And I chose them because they’re very much reflective of common problems you might have yourself. Psychiatry blamed mothers years...What Do You Value More? 3 Steps to Help You Respond, Not React
There’s a simple mantra out there that can really help with self-control, especially emotional self-control – “Respond not react.” Sounds simple and easy, right? It’s not. Learning how to control your reactions to what’s being said...313 SelfWork: Five Steps To Build Your Social Muscle and Tackle Self-Consciousness and Social Anxiety
Generally, when someone is called “a bundle of nerves,” they’re not describing a state of being that’s pleasant or desired. Those nerves could range from the fairly common experience of self-consciousness, where you have a heightened sense of yourself, to actual...Dr. Margaret’s Book Now Available!
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