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The Transition to Parenthood: How A Baby Changes Your Relationship
Research shows many couples struggle after baby arrives. Learn how parenthood impacts relationships and why preparing your partnership matters for you and your baby.
Encouragement Versus Praise: Raising Confident Children
Learn the difference between encouragement versus praise and how encouragement helps children build confidence, resilience, and an internal sense of pride.
Questions for Couples To Rebuild Connection
Intentional questions for couples to rebuild emotional connection in marriage and deepen intimacy through meaningful dialogue.
Common Marriage Reconciliation Mistakes to Avoid After Infidelity
Infidelity is one of the most painful experiences a marriage can endure. The discovery of an affair shatters trust, disrupts emotional safety, and leaves both spouses unsure of what comes next. Many couples ask the same questions. Can a marriage survive infidelity? And if so, how do you rebuild trust after infidelity?
How to Stop Worrying and Accept Uncertainty
The worriers who sit in my office are often high-functioning, thoughtful, and responsible. They manage teams, raise children, and lead organizations. They carry weight. And yet, when they lie down at night, their mind does not rest.
What Happens in Marriage Counseling?
What To Expect in Couples and Marriage Counseling Family Psychology of South Bend comes from a tradition of clinicians who try to demystify counseling and psychology, thus the straight forward topic of today’s article about marriage counseling. I want to begin with some words from the famous psychiatrist Alfred Adler often quoted by my mentors. He […]
Managing Relationship Conflict
Marriage and couples counselor Trey Duckett discusses managing relationship conflict.
Why does my partner keep shutting down, and what can I do?
Marriage and couples counselor Sara Baxter discusses why our partner might be shutting down, and what we can do about it.
Moving Past Resentment
Marriage and couples counselor Sara Baxter discusses how to move past resentment in our relationships.
7 Surprising Mythbusters about Eating Disorders
As someone who has worked in the field of eating disorder (ED) treatment and prevention for 10 years, I am used to the way the disease operates and familiar with the seemingly backward truths that don’t fit the stereotypes. One of my office staff recently told me that the biggest thing she learned working with […]
