When do we feel the need to forgive? When we hold grievances against someone or ourselves. When a person fails to do what we expect of them, we resent them. Similarly, when we set a goal for our self and do not perform up to the required standard, we lose hope in ourselves or blame ourselves for not trying enough. Resentment, whether directed outwards …
Improving Communication with Spouse – Why Couple Counseling Is Important for Improving Communication Between Spouses
If you’ve been married for even a little while, you now know from experience that there is no such thing as a perfect marriage. The stuff of movies and dramas on the television with the women being cheesy all the time and the men actually taking responsibility for leaving the toilet seat up? Yeah, that’s not the stuff of real life. Real life in …
Power of Mindfulness
It is astonishing how a simple act can have so much power. You have been hearing this word all around you these but do you know what it means and the power it holds? It is a practice going on for centuries, but only now in this world of too many distractions, we need mindfulness more than ever. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the …
Healthy Marriages: Regular Couples Counseling Is the Key to A Healthy Marriage
You’ve come home from a long day of work, your boss seemed like they had a fight with their spouse and was taking it out on the whole team. As you enter the house the first thing you see is dirty dishes in the sink leftover from the dinner eaten without you and it was you who prepared it as well! You try to …
Times that Require Self-Compassion
Self-compassion means to treat yourself with warmth, care, love and understanding. When you do not blame or judge yourself for what you did wrong, it is self-compassion. There are multiple times when one feels the need of getting an anxiety therapy but if we show self-compassion at the needed times, we can live a happy life. When someone is disappointed in you You do …
How Can Counseling Help You Get Rid of Anxiety?
Did you know anxiety affects 18% of the adult population and 25% of the youth population? This is the most commonly prevalent disorder out there and if you don’t get help for it then it can have the power to affect you long-term. Anxiety comes in the form of panic attacks, sleeplessness, excessive worrying, restlessness, and irritability. While some anxiety is good and normal, …
How to Cope with Trauma Caused by Infidelity in A Relationship
Infidelity isn’t just sexual. It can take many forms. It can take a form of conversational exchanges that are out of bounds or paying attention to someone else while neglecting your significant other. Whatever the form of infidelity is, it hurts all the same and causes relationship issues. It violates the trust between two people and it manifests in symptoms that are much like …
Tips to Build Trust in A Relationship
Every relationship is incomplete without trust. Many relationships can be strong without love and other elements but trust is something that every relationship must have to thrive. You feel comfortable in someone’s company only when you trust that person. Think of a person you feel close is to you but you do not trust him/her. There is none. For a warm companionship, trust is …
Date Night Activities
There is nothing in this world that you can get without putting effort in. So, this is the case with love, and you have to do certain things to get the best of this feeling. Even if things go bad, you have to get couples counseling in Houston and such therapy things to get the best form of love. However, certain activities can help …