When You’re Not Being Heard
It is frustrating when you aren’t being heard in a relationship. Thankfully, we have options on how to handle this situation.
Relationship Boundaries Make Us Stronger
Setting healthy relationship boundaries can be scary and intimidating. Yet, they are a crucial component of healthy relationships.
Dear Friends, This Is How to Support Me in a Depression
In a recent depression, my friends found ways to give me amazing depression support. Here are simple things they did for me, and a few they didn’t.
Feel Alone in a Crowd? It’s Not Just You
“It’s probably just me” translates to a more powerful phrase: “I’m all alone.” This is the evil that hides in mental illness.
Empathy Means Not Saying “At Least”
How does the desire to express empathy manifest in our time of need? With the phrase “at least.” Intended to comfort, instead, it deepens our pain.
Love Is a Verb, Not a Noun: Seeing Everyday Love
I married unexpectedly well. One of the reasons our relationship works so well is that I learned a valuable lesson from my parents: Love is a verb, not a noun.
They’re Symptoms, Not an Excuse
It can be easy to fall back on our symptoms and use them as an excuse for our behavior. Yet, it is our responsibility to manage those symptoms.
Accepting Help Is a Sign of Strength
Too often, we think of accepting help as a sign of weakness. In reality, knowing when and how to accept help from our network is a sign of strength.
DEAR MAN Helps Difficult Conversations
Finding a healthy way to express our needs in our relationships is an important step on the road to emotional help. Thankfully, Marsha Linehan of DBT fame has a great acrostic to help us with this: the DEAR MAN skill.
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