Learn to manage your stress response with this proven technique Dealing with relationship stress is a challenge most of us will face at some point. When you experience conflict or difficulty, it is hard to keep calm, but things rarely go well if you can’t. Your...
If you read the 7 signs you are overly responsible for others and you’re clear that you do take on too much responsibility, the natural question that arises is, how do you stop feeling so responsible for others? Being overly responsible can be a heavy load to carry...
You probably already suspect that you take on too much responsibility for the outcomes, happiness, and wellbeing of those around you. Perhaps you are even proud of this at times, while at other times you feel the immense weight of it. While a healthy sense of...
“I’m not sure why I am here, I don’t even know if I should be here” Sally sat across from me on the couch and looked down at her hands as she spoke. My face softened further into a compassionate smile. I waited for a moment but that was all she had to say for now....
Relationships are hard. We come into them with a lifetime of emotional baggage and often unhelpful relational habits and conflict styles. Sometimes we are unaware of how damaging our patterns may be to relationships or, we know but feel helpless to stop it. It is a...
Have you ever had that feeling of emotional reactivity when you go from zero to one hundred in a matter of seconds? We express this reactivity in different ways. “I was so triggered”, “It just really got to me”, “They made me so angry”. It is a feeling of being...
Giving yourself the gift of consecutive weeks away from your regular life and occupation is the ultimate self kindness. You are not your job. A few thousand kilometres in the desert is good for your perspective. Some time in a place that is millions of years old is...
One of the most effective ways to deepen and strength your relationships is through the power of your presence. I am not talking about simply being there in the physical sense, but actually being present. Undistracted – completely in the present. Your sole purpose in that moment is to be with someone fully – to encourage them to be fully seen and heard. This is a powerful practice of giving and receiving attention and fuelling better connection. It is the very foundation of warmth and connection between human beings.
Having connected with some of the world’s leading relationship experts, Amy distils all that wisdom into bite sized relationship hacks – for better love, connection, conflict and communication.
(and their antidotes)
Most of us are familiar with the term “red flags” and everyone has experienced them somewhere in their relationship history. Red flags are issues that signal problems in relationships which, left unaddressed, will eventually lead to relationship breakdown. Don’t get caught unaware…
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