March 10, 2020
Many people today are avoiding talking about the election. In fact, some people have lost friendships and relationships over their different political viewpoints. While at a luncheon not too long ago, I observed the way the room divided along political lines, people gravitating to like energy to support and substantiate their political positions. At this
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March 3, 2020
Several years ago, during Arianna Huffington’s Shadow Convention, I was on a CNN political panel addressing the cynicism of teen voters. I learned from that experience that teens have defaulted their participation in politics. Today, when teenagers tell me that they feel cynical about the political process, I remind them, that young adults and adolescents
February 25, 2020
Divorce is hard, for all of the individuals involved. When your parents decide to get divorced, you may experience many different, overwhelming, and even conflicting emotions. You may feel torn between the two people you love the most, and you may even feel to blame for what has happened. It is important to know that
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February 18, 2020
There are those who believe that people who get divorced simply take the “easy way out.” As someone who has studied and written about human behavior and relationships, I can tell you: there is nothing easy about divorce. Simply reaching the decision and the point in your relationship where you are secure in stating “I want a
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February 13, 2020
Romance and sexual passion are connected in a very real way to the deepest patterns of our childhood, those relationship patterns that we experience with our mother and father from the earliest stages of development. Parental bonds The way your parents cared for and bonded to you, the way they related to you emotionally —
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