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Relationships
Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships
By Leslie Becker-Phelps, Ph.D.

 

How to Manage Your Anger

Anger is an emotion that all humans share, and so there is nothing inherently wrong with experiencing it. However, we associate anger with getting hot; and so, by fueling our anger,

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How to Stop Thinking About and Feeling ‘It’

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

The best answer is, paradoxically, to think and feel the experience more. What ‘we’ know from years of people being in therapy and years of psychological research and from plain

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Is It Really Important to Say “Thank You” to Your Partner?

Saying “thank you” is a simple thing to do. But partners too often forget, or think it’s not really that important — they reason, she knows I appreciate 

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Must You Love Your Parents to be a Good Person?

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

With Mother’s Day fast approaching, I’ve been thinking about the special relationship between

 

 

 

Time Together: A Cure for Relationship Problems

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

For many relationship problems, the fix is simple but not easy; spend more time together. I don’t mean get-more-

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Two Essential Approaches in Making Your Relationship Thrive

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships

Love is wonderful, but is not enough to keep couples together. As the excitement of new relationships fade,

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An Inspiring Story of Putting Others First

Through the far-reaching tentacles of YouTube and social media, I recently saw the inspiring story of Sara Tucholsky. For those of you who, like me, don’t know her story, here it is:

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Four Cornerstones for Building Emotionally Healthy Children

While there is no definitive handbook on raising emotionally healthy, resilient children, there is also no shortage of advice on parenting. However, there are four basic approaches to

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Do You Really Have to Love Yourself Before You Can Love Someone Else?

Creating Happy and Healthy Relationships“You must love yourself before you can love someone else” – this saying is usually spoken as an undeniable truth, like 2+2=4. But it’s not that simple. As with so much else with us

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Compassionate Self-Awareness: Moving Toward Self-Acceptance and Belonging

In my last blog (Radical Acceptance: A Key to Feeling Like You Belong), I wrote about how full self-acceptance is important in enjoying happy, healthy relationships. Unfortunately, most

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