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Previous Columns -
A Big Thank You!
Creating Your Own Union City
When Your Security Blanket is in the Dryer
Finding Our Own Music
Dealing with Criticism
Snake in the Attic
Dealing with a Gossiper
When Your Security Blanket in in the Dryer
Spinach
Merging
Undeserved Forgiveness
What is Your Bread?
Are We a Buffalo or a Cow?
The Next Chapter in our Lives
Being True to Self
Limiting Beliefs
And the trophy goes to…
At Arm's Length
Ya' Gotta Know When…
Meeting Places
To Tell the Truth
Encouragement Versus Praise
The Power of Quiet Time
Change the Timer
The View From the Balcony
Put Away Your Sledgehammer
Positive Comparisons
Seeing Others Through Distorted Lenses
You Won't Dry My Chinaware
Merging
Count Your Blessings One by One
PAINT YOUR OWN CANVAS
Creating a Full Heart
No Thanks
Dealing With Regrets
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Revisited
What's Upstream?
HOT BUTTON: Questions! Questions!
Snake in the Attic
Igniting the Spark
The Power of Reminiscing
The Next Chapter in Our Lives
Getting a Turtle Out of its Shell
Fully Invested in the Moment
Expressing Grief
Your Dog Can't Swim
Unconditional Love Has Conditions
Self-Acceptance
Need a Spot?
Dealing with Regrets
Forgiving Those We Have Injured
Staying Young On The Inside
What is Your Script?
Creating a Full Heart
Can You Hear Me Now?
Dealing with a Power Struggle
What Is Your Bread?
When the Problem Really Is Not the Problem
The Impossible Dream
How Many Frogs Do You Need?
Superman or Clark Kent?
It's Only My Opinion
Using a Sledge Hammer to Drive a Tack
What Do You Mean?
Being our own best friend
Taking Care of Ourselves During the Holidays
Don't Defend Yourself
Whose face do you see when you look in the mirror?
Glimpse
What Triggers Your Anger?
I Never Do Anything Right!
When
The Power of Quiet Time
The Difference Between Having Needs and Being Needy
Don’t Let the Label Say Who You Are
The Difference Between Fitting In and Being Accepted
Be A Weaver, Not A Discounter
Need a Spot?
Walking the Talk
Why Don't I Change?
The Value of Guilt
Loving A Little Less
Creating Safe Relationships (Part Two)
Creating a Safe Relationship
It's Only My Opinion
Ouch!
Growing the Bottom Line
Relationship Resolutions
Giving Up Our Cadillac For A Bicycle
The Power of Quiet Time
Wait Your Turn
How Many Frogs Do You Need?
Be a Weaver, Not a Discounter
Being a Friend to a Griever
Painful Silence
Double Standard
Practicing the Right Stuff
Trying to De-stress
Stress Reduction
Dealing With a Gossiper
Building self-steem - Part 3
The parenting box top | Part 2
The parenting box top
When puzzle pieces don't match the box picture
Tasks of Grieving, Part II
The Four Tasks of Grieving
Empathy
What kind of listener do you want me to be?
Your Dog Can't Swim
Dealing with Criticism
Run Your Own Race, Part II
Run Your Own Race
The Next Chapter in Our Lives
Creating New Normals
Beating the Holiday Blues
Emotional Triggers
Making a Difference
'You're with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.' - Diane Von Furstenburg
Are you really listening?
Who do I have to be for you to love me?
The grace of forgiveness
Trying to blend a blended family
Hot button: criticism
Resolutions
The grace of forgiveness
How are your investments doing?
Overcoming The Holiday Blues
Life's Puzzle-Box Top
Empathy
Drowning In A Glass of Water
Stay In Your Own Lane
Log or Hog?
Finding Supportive People
How Disease Impacts A Relationship
How Disease Impacts A Relationship
How Disease Impacts A Relationship
The Next Chapter in Our Lives
Creating a 'new normal' during the holidays
Overcoming the Holiday Blues
Expressing Grief
You had it last!
Talking Dog for Sale
Family Meetings
Family Meetings
The grace of forgiveness
Trying To Blend A Blended Family
Parenting-Partner Covenant
Protecting Our Children During Divorce
Parenting-Partner Covenant
Overcoming the Holiday Blues
The Worst Beating I Ever Took
'It's my fault!'
You had it last!
The umbrella story
The grace of forgiveness
Cooling the brain
Life's Puzzle-Box Top
Simon Says
Unenforceable Rules
Stone Face
It's All About Me!
You Lost That Loving Feeling
You Don't Bring Me Flowers Anymore
Don't Tell Me What To Do
Do it now
No Opportunity to Repair
The Umbrella Story
How Do We Express Our Love?
Don't Forget to Eat Your Spinach
What is your Kryptonite?
Finding your own phonebooth
Superman or Clark Kent?
How committed are we?
You said that because...
You Won't Hear From Me Unless. . .
Don't Tell Me What To Do!!
Beneath the Surface
Being our best friend
What's Really Important?
Forgiving Those We Have Injured
Get Over It
Resentment Ledger
Empowering Self
Unclaimed Property
Truth Sentry
Core beliefs
Honey, I shrunk myself!
Feel the breeze
Working through grief
Life will never be the same
Being Strong?
Grief: The Uncorker
When Words Fail
An orphan at 43
No Relationship Is By Mistake
THE BROKEN RECORD
Using A Sledge Hammer to Drive A Tack
'From One to Ten'
The Phantom Knows
Turning The Kingdom into a Democracy
King of the Castle
Living With Difficult People
Ouch!
When Your Security Blanket Is In The Dryer
Why Don't I Change?
DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE WORD 'NO'!
Goat Snatchers
I Need Your Vote
Our Fear of Embarrassment
When One Door Shuts
Fear of Failure
Blue Light Specials
Interdependence
Freedom of Closeness
The Power of Quiet Time
I Didn't Want To Say Anything But . . .
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
Making mountains out of molehills
Let me think about it
Yes, I mean no!
Frog Experts
You Could Do Better
Chasing a Three-Legged Chicken
Avoiding the Wrong Partner - Things we can do
Avoiding the Wrong Partner
Why do I keep picking the wrong partner? - Part II
Why do I keep picking the wrong partner?
All We Do Is Work!
I don't want to talk about it!
Give me room
Lovemaking vs. sex
What did you do today?
Intimacy Questionnaire
Would The Real You Stand Up?
Say When
Undeserved Forgiveness
To Forgive or not to forgive
Who's job is it to take care of us?
Never Enough
Reactor or Responder?
Don't feel that way
A door to self-awareness
Can you hear me now?
Journaling Your Anger - Part III
Journaling Your Anger - Part II
Journaling Your Anger - Part I
Walking on Eggshells
The Value of Guilt
Defense Mechanisms as a Solution
I can't share my feelings with you!
It's Not My Fault!
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
The Poison of Jealousy - Part II
The Poison of Jealousy
What Triggers Your Anger? Part III
What Triggers Your Anger? Part II
"It’s Unfair!"
What Triggers Your Anger? - Part I
Conflict Covenant - Part V
Conflict Covenant - Part IV
Conflict Covenant - Part III
Conflict Covenant - Part II
Conflict Covenant - Part I
Wait Your Turn!
IT'S ONLY MY OPINION!
Leading Off With Soft Feelings
Time Out!
Apologizing Prematurely
When The Problem Really Is Not The Problem
Don't Defend Yourself
Be a Weaver Not a Discounter
How Do You And Your Partner Solve Problems?
Differences in Relationships Can Be Gifts
Relationships Change
