“Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” -C. S. Lewis A family arrived in my counseling office for their first session. Dad looked nervous, Mom looked relieved and the two teenage kids looked like they had just walked into a morgue. Both parents complained of being driven crazy by the constant […]
Etch A Sketching Our Way Past Grudges
Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again. […]
Tips for Healthy, Effective Communication
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” –George Bernard Shaw I’ve been a psychotherapist for over thirty years but I’m still struck, on almost a daily basis, by how very few people really know how to communicate well. If only we had all […]
Improving Family Communication in 5 Steps
“Any problem, big or small, within a family always seems to start with bad communication.” […]
Improving Family Communication
Effective communication is one of the cornerstones of relationship. It is the means by which we form connections with others, work out inevitable conflicts that arise, make plans for the future, collaborate on a project, or achieve greater intimacy. It can be far more difficult than any of us first imagined. After all, we’ve been […]
