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Healthy Relationships

5 Steps to Create Positive Change in Your Relationship

by Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT | July 30, 2023 | couples communication, emotional safety, family of origin, family of origin issues, Healthy Relationships, resentment in marriage, Sex And Relationships, Tickled Articles | 0 Comments

Marriage and/or long-term intimate relationships have the potential to be incredibly rewarding and people generally do the best they can with what they know. Couples can generally do well over time but many hit emotional speed bumps. No matter when or how a...

Too Independent in Your Relationship?

by Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT | June 29, 2023 | Healthy Relationships, independence in relationships, independent in relationship, secure attachment, Sex And Relationships, Tickled Articles | 0 Comments

Jennifer Chappell Marsh, MFT explores independence vs interdependence in relationships and what secure attachment looks like. Many of us have heard the saying, “At the end of the day, you only have yourself to fall back on…” We are taught from a young age that...

Healthy Relationships: Assessing the Emotional Safety

by Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT | March 7, 2023 | emotional safety, family of origin work, Healthy Relationships, Sex And Relationships, Tickled Articles, trust | 0 Comments

Couples seek relationship counseling for numerous reasons. No matter what issues they present to therapy with, it often can be boiled down to a problem with the emotional safety in their relationship. The most hostile, distant or disengaged couples are not the only...

10 Characteristics of Successful Relationships

People seeking couples counseling seek change to a relationship dynamic that isn’t working in some...

Combat Loneliness by Learning to Connect

We humans have an innate, deep need for connection with each other. It can feel great when we...

When a Husband’s Desire for His Wife To Be Happy Gets Tricky

Richard Nicastro, PhD, through the eyes of “Nina,” explores what it can look like when protective...

Relational Intelligence

Relational Intelligence

Linda Graham, MFT and author of Resilience and Bouncing Back, looks at the two pillars of healthy social connections and provides exercises in how to cultivate them. I regularly experience the...

The Single Biggest Happiness Predictor in Relationships

The Single Biggest Happiness Predictor in Relationships

This recent study demonstrates what may be intuitive for some but what’s even more helpful is the Inc.com author’s segue into “what to do about it” if you don’t have this attribute in your current...

Give No One Cause to Fear You

Give No One Cause to Fear You

Rick Hanson, PhD, author and expert on the neuroscience of well-being and relationships, looks at some of the ways we can behave to illicit a calm vs threat response from others. We evolved to be...

Your Friends Are a Predictor of Your Health

Your Friends Are a Predictor of Your Health

Health is a focus for many and there are different aspects from what we put into our bodies to how well we keep them moving. And there are precise ways to measure these things, providing detailed...

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