by Dan | Jun 24, 2024 | Blog
Generally speaking, emotional resilience is when we are able to effectively cope with stressful or unexpected situations and crises. When we build emotional resilience, we can access our innate inner strength that helps us rebound from a difficult setback or...
by Dan | Apr 23, 2024 | Blog
It is inevitable that we will be disappointed or hurt by a friend or someone we love. We often expect them to know what we want. But what I’ve learned is that we can choose to create the relationships we want by letting people know what we want and need from...
by Dan | Mar 21, 2024 | Blog
If you’ve been struggling and find it difficult to manage day-to-day, you may have considered therapy to help. A good therapist can make a big difference and help you significantly in moving forward. But a bad therapist can make things much worse or be...
by Dan | Feb 29, 2024 | Blog
I know I have written a lot lately about how to calm our emotional responses when interacting with the people closest to us. This is because not only do I see it happen time and time again, leading to everything from hurt feelings to bitter endings of relationships,...
by Dan | Feb 4, 2024 | Blog
The key to successful relationships lies in our ability to see the other’s perspective. But we can’t do this when we become emotionally reactive. We first need to calm our emotions to think clearly and rationally and see where the other person is coming from. Here...
by Dan | Dec 3, 2023 | Blog
As parents, we can’t always be aware of our children’s emotional experiences and how our actions affect them. As a trained mediator, family law attorney for almost 25 years, and child of bitter divorce myself, I know all too well how children can be affected – even if...
