The holiday season is approaching and it can be a hard time of year for some – perhaps facing the first holiday without someone special or going through a personally hard time with something in your life. But even if all is going great right now, wherever you are at everyone needs what I call a Joy List.
Read moreI don't need Valentine's Day to make it all about LOVE
One of my favourite scientific advances in the last 20 years is the ability to take pictures of the brain and its circuitry in action and what this continues to teach us about how we are wired and therefore why we do what we do.
Anthropologist Helen Fisher is a leader in this area and has extensively studied what happens in the brain as it relates to love. She has differentiated 3 types of love, that each have their own areas of the brain that light up.
Read moreCoupling and "Conscious Uncoupling" in Australia
The reality is that as you enter marriage today in Australia, you will be a little older than those 20 years before you, but you will still have the same 40% chance of divorce and for 50% of you, that separation will occur before your 8th wedding anniversary.
Read moreBoundaries in Relationships
Boundaries protect the things we value like a fence around our house protects our home. When it comes to ourselves, in our relationships, boundaries protect our individuality, needs and sense of self from being absorbed, taken advantage of or ignored by the other in the relationship.
Read moreSelf Worth
Self esteem is an evaluation of our worthiness as individuals. If we have good self esteem we believe ourselves to good and valuable people. This belief needs to come from deep within in order to ensure resilience in times of life stress or negative events or even just to live in an ever changing world.
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