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Articles I Recommend
Explore my collection of recommended articles. From understanding trauma to divorce mediation to achieving better relationships, I’ve included a range of topics to help you with whatever you’re experiencing. You’ll also find articles on how to get the most out of therapy for your unique goals.
Mediation
Lifecycle
After the Children Have Grown; Madeline Levine
Walking Home; Erika Swyler
Couples
What Really Holds Relationships Together? It’s Not Love
The 36 Questions That Lead to Love ; Madeline Levine
9 Signs You’re in a Healthy Relationship
Why Emotional Safety is the Defining Feature of Good Sex ; Susan Johnson
Couples That Talk About Sex Have Better Sex ; Kyle Benson
What Playfulness Can Do for Your Relationship
In Defense of Adulterers ; Zoe Heller
Science Says Lasting Relationships Come Down To 2 Basic Traits ; Emily Esfahani Smith
Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person ; Alain de Botton
Helping Older Couples Achieve “Good Enough” Sex ; Michael Metz
How to Have a Better Relationship ; Tara Parker-Pope
How Internet Porn Is Changing How Men and Women Are Having Sex ; Philip Perry
Stop Bickering. It’s Killing Your Relationship ; Esther Perel
What Couples Want to Know But Are Too Shy to Ask ; Elizabeth Bernstein
To Stay Married, Embrace Change ; Ada Calhoun
Couples Reveal Their ‘Aha’ Moments In Couples Counseling; Brittany Wong
The Type of Love That Makes People Happiest; Arthur C. Brooks
This One Thing is the Biggest Predictor of Divorce; Eva Van Prooyen
Breakups/Divorce
The Truth About Parental Alienation ; Craig Harper Ph.D.
Parenting
The Spectrum Of Parental Alienation Syndrome/; Deirdre Conway Rand, PhD
Sibling Effect: Mom Has a Favorite and Birth Order Counts; Susan Donaldson James
12 Ways Parents Can Strengthen the Bond Their Kids Already Share; Tarah Chief
Understanding How Children Develop Empathy; Perri Klass, M.D.
Six Steps to Curb Materialism in Your Kids; Ron Lieber
How Parenting Today Is Different, and Harder; Claire Cain Miller
Families & Forgiveness
The Power Of Apolgizing; By Harriet Lerner
Psychotherapy
How to Give Your Therapist Feedback
How Can a Therapist Get the Most Out of Therapy?
What Your Therapist Is Really Thinking ; Paul Hokemeyer
13 People on the Best Lessons They’ve Learned in Therapy; By Amy Marturana Winderl, C.P.T.
13 Signs It’s Time to Consider Therapy; By Jessica A. Gold, M.D., M.S.
The surprising intimacy of online therapy sessions during the pandemic; By Lori Gottleib
Grief
Sex Therapy
The Top Myths about Lust and Love and How They can Ruin your Sex Life (Part One); By Cheryl Fraser, Ph.D
I’m a Sex Therapist, and These Are the Most-Common Questions Single People Ask Me; By Helen Carefoot
Of Interest
There Are 2 Types Of Work-From-Home Personalities. Which Are You?
How to Stop Being So Defensive
To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved ; Shirley S. Wang
Former Surgeon General says There’s a ‘Loneliness Epidemic’ and Work is Partly to Blame ; Jena McGregor
How to Have a Better Relationship ; Tara Parker-Pope
Relationship Problems? Try Getting More Sleep ; Tara Parker-Pope
Busy Is a Sickness ; Scott Dannemiller
The Trait That “Super Friends” Have In Common ; Marisa G. Franco
Why You Can’t Make Someone Else Change ; Peg O’Connor Ph.D.
6 Ways To Strenghten Your Relationships In 2023; Hyosun Hwang
Are You Anxious, Avoidant or Secure?; By Magdalene J. Taylor
America’s Intimacy Problem; By Isabel Fattal
An 85-year Harvard study found the No. 1 thing that makes us happy in life: It helps us ‘live longer’; By Marc Schulz & Robert Waldinger
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