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Couples Bootcamp: What to Expect and How It Can Strengthen Your Relationship

Struggling with the same arguments, broken promises, or silent resentment can make even the strongest couples feel hopeless. Many couples don’t realize how quickly emotional distance and miscommunication can turn love into frustration. If you’ve been feeling stuck in unhealthy patterns with your partner, you’re not alone. That’s why I created the Couples Bootcamp to give partners a structured way

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Can a Relationship Survive Betrayal? The Truth About Healing After Infidelity

Infidelity shatters trust, leaving deep wounds that can’t simply be ignored or rushed past. The shock and pain may seem overwhelming, but understanding the steps toward recovery can turn chaos into clarity. You may wonder if your relationship will ever feel safe, loving, or whole again. These doubts are natural, but they don’t have to define your future. Many couples

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Understanding Gaslighting: 3 Strategies to Overcome

You hear the term gaslighting all the time these days, but what exactly does it mean? It’s always associated with toxic, manipulative people, but why is it called gaslighting? Understanding gaslighting is important for setting appropriate boundaries and understanding the true agenda of narcissists and other types of toxic people. Let’s examine this type of behavior, where it came from,

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5 Signs to Indicate You’re in a Healthy Relationship

Remember that feeling – when you meet someone, and it’s like you’re floating on air? They consume your thoughts, your world. But then, whether it’s days, weeks, or months later, you realize you’re not in a healthy relationship at all; you’re actually in a toxic relationship. But they seemed so perfect for you. How could you have known? The first

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5 Tips for Resolving Communication Breakdowns in Your Marriage

In any relationship, good communication is a must, but it’s particularly vital for your marriage. Of course, we humans are imperfect beings, and as such, we sometimes get it wrong. A bad day can make you confrontational in your interactions with your partner, and sometimes, you say some things that you don’t mean. You’re lashing out in anger or frustration.

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5 Steps to Break Free from a Narcissistic Partner

A narcissistic partner and narcissists in general are among the most challenging partners you can have in a relationship. When it starts, you don’t know they’re a narcissist. In fact, many partners and former partners of narcissists report feeling as though they had met their soulmate. But that impression quickly fades as the love-bombing turns into nearly constant criticism, blame,

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Heartbreak & Healing: 3 Steps to Take After a Difficult Breakup

Any adult, regardless of their circumstances, likely knows the universal feelings that accompany a difficult breakup with someone they fell in love with at some point. There are feelings of sadness, grief, and, at times, a sense of hopelessness, as you might think you’ll never find the right person for you. These feelings are compounded when either you or your

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Embracing Change & Strategies for Breaking Free of Toxic Relationships

After you realize a relationship is toxic, it can still be difficult to reconcile your emotions related to your own role in that toxicity, and it can still be difficult to break free of your toxic partner. While it seems unbelievable, toxic relationships can be addictive in nature. That’s why it’s vital to embrace change in yourself before you can

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The Psychological Impact of Toxic Relationships on Your Mental Health

When we think of abuse in an intimate relationship, we often think of physical abuse, but emotional abuse can have an equally disturbing effect on your mental health. In fact, research has shown that victims of toxic relationships often suffer multiple forms of abuse, and the statistics for intimate partner violence are no less than astounding. In the United States,

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Couples Therapy with Suntia

You need help. Someone to mediate. Someone to translate. Someone to help you explore how things went wrong in your relationship — and how things can go right once again through couples therapy. However, you are anxious about putting your time, emotional energy and the future of your slowly crumbling relationship into someone else’s hands. I get it. Which is

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