Parenthood and Its Impact on Your Relationship
Navigating This Journey Together After marriage, couples are often asked, “When are you having a baby?!”. Once the decision is made to start a family, extensive resources support parents through pregnancy, delivery, and child-rearing milestones. However, amidst these...
Travel With Your Partner Without Fighting
Summer is here, and for many of us, that means it’s vacation time! Whether you’re planning to explore a new city, hike in the mountains, bask in the sun at the beach, or enjoy a fun staycation in your hometown, taking a break can be one of the best times of the year....
Sex After Menopause: Navigating Changes
Our post-menopause lives can bring lots of changes, some welcome, some unwelcome. Often some of the least welcome changes are those that affect our sexuality. The changes in our bodies and our hormone levels inevitably affect our sexual experience in some way....
Parallel Parenting vs Co-Parenting: What’s the Difference?
Parenting after a divorce is challenging, and there’s no one right way to do it. First and foremost, you have to put your child’s needs first and then consider your family’s unique situation. Among the various approaches, parallel parenting and co-parenting stand out...
Understanding the Relationship Between Shame and Complex Trauma
As a therapist who is particularly interested in working with survivors of complex trauma and difficult childhood experiences, I am constantly struck by how often survivors come in carrying deeply embedded, debilitating shame. Often, survivors may have carried this...
