How (& What) to Tell Your Kids About Treatment
When it’s time to talk about a parent’s addiction treatment with children, it’s important to consider that child’s age, exposure to the parent’s issues, and… Read More
Courageous Love: A Couples Guide to Conquering Betrayal
For decades, clinicians working with couples whose relationships have been damaged by infidelity – everything from porn use to affairs to full-on sexual addiction –… Read More
Counteracting COVID’s Added Stress at Family Gatherings
During an ordinary holiday season, you might be thinking about how to navigate sensitive political conversations, avoid relapse triggers, and find meaningful ways to spend… Read More
Are Dating Apps and Dating TV Shows Impacting Real Relationships?
By Christa Banister Swiping right or left. Slipping into someone’s DMs. Complete strangers getting married in three months or less on 90 Day Fiancé. Those… Read More
What Makes Relationships Addictive?
If you ever need a reminder of the high premium placed upon love and romantic relationships, you’re only a few clicks away. There are entire… Read More
Domestic Violence Series: Defining the Crisis
What happens when a culture becomes comfortably numb and passively accepting of what we feel is unchangeable? Be the change you wish to see in… Read More
Domestic Violence Series: Why Women Stay
As a culture, we tend to arrive at broad assumptions about complicated issues like domestic violence with beliefs that are fairly black or white. Read More
Domestic Violence Series: How Recovery Works
Breaking free from domestic violence — from an abusive, controlling, self-esteem-killing relationship — is one of the most heroic acts of self-care an abuse… Read More
Betrayal: When Women Cheat
For as long as humans have been on this planet and coupling has been in existence, cheating has been part of the equation. For centuries,… Read More
Sexual Anorexia: 4 Reasons Women Avoid Sex
Unlike sexual addicts who “act out” by regularly pursuing promiscuous or high-risk sexual behavior, women who struggle with sexual anorexia do the opposite. They… Read More