As Americans are being asked and required to be socially and physically distant during the Coronavirus pandemic, emotional and spiritual connection becomes even more important. If you’re an introvert, this is what you’ve been training for your entire life. You’ll happily hibernate with your books or Netflix and stay in your pajamas all day. For [...]
Some of you are on week two or three (maybe more) of sheltering at home with your partner in social isolation. During this forced togetherness there is a golden opportunity for you and your partner to improve the quality of your relationship. You have a chance to address and work through any issues you may [...]
Your partner has changed, they’re acting upset, unhappy or simply down or depressed. How can you help your unhappy partner? When people we love are hurting it’s natural to want to help, to fix things even. Sometimes that’s not possible, so how do you help your unhappy partner, and how do you know where to [...]
Empathy: Do you know what that word means? To have empathy is to feel and share the emotions of another and thereby better understand what they are experiencing. Daniel Goleman describes three kinds of empathy; cognitive, emotional, and compassionate. Empathy is different than sympathy, though they might seem the same on the surface. The difference [...]
