Why You Shouldn’t Set New Year’s Goals

New Year’s goals don’t work. So stop setting them. Yes, we should all strive to improve ourselves – whether through personal growth, better health habits, career advancement, or stronger relationships. But setting goals just won’t cut it. By January 31st, I hear the same confessions in my office, year after year: “I thought this year […]
Life’s Greatest Teachers: Joy and Sorrow

How Connections Shape our Greatest Life Lessons You know, I’ve been thinking a lot about this quote lately from one of my mentors (from afar), the great grief therapist and pioneer, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: If you go and dance at a lot of weddings, you will cry at a lot of funerals. If you were at […]
Redefine Your Relationships

And step into a new you Does it feel like you’re constantly overlooked and undervalued in your relationships, whether with friends, family, or romantic partners? Perhaps you’re stuck in a frustrating loop where your voice seems to vanish into thin air, leaving you feeling helpless and diminished. For couples, maybe it’s the endless cycle of […]
How to Repair From a Fight

So You Can Truly Start Anew All couples fight, even happy ones. Some successful couples even have big arguments. But most couples DO NOT recover from a fight. Here’s a typical scene. Partner A gets upset. They express this to Partner B. Partner B defends and explains themselves. Partner A then feels unheard and re-explains […]