How Your Family's Mental Health and Substance Use Affected You as a Child—and How It Shows Up in Your Adult Relationships Today
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How Your Family's Mental Health and Substance Use Affected You as a Child—and How It Shows Up in Your Adult Relationships Today

Family mental health issues often bring out substance and behavioral misuse symptoms, which can have a monumental ripple impact on children and parents.

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When One Partner Stops Trying: Why Couples Therapy Is Crucial for Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity
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When One Partner Stops Trying: Why Couples Therapy Is Crucial for Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity

Is therapy worth it if one partner doesn’t want to engage in it or doesn’t want to consider it? Yes, absolutely, this blog reviews the pros and cons of attending therapy together or alone while your relationship is in a dark place.

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Why Couples Therapy Is More Beneficial than Other Types of Therapy?
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Why Couples Therapy Is More Beneficial than Other Types of Therapy?

Couples therapy is so needed right now in the era of AI and inauthentic connections based on consumerism, inauthenticity, deceit and competitiveness. Healing is truly human.

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Healing Together: How Emotionally Focused Therapy Helps Couples Recover from Addiction
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Healing Together: How Emotionally Focused Therapy Helps Couples Recover from Addiction

Addiction and emotional disengagement can be so disruptful to a couple and family system. Discussing feelings and parts is the most impactful work to connect the two and create homeostatis.

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Love in Recovery: How Couples Therapy Supports Healing from Addiction
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Love in Recovery: How Couples Therapy Supports Healing from Addiction

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Empowerment in the Midst of Pressure: A Therapist's Guide for Women Navigating Love and Leadership in 2025
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Empowerment in the Midst of Pressure: A Therapist's Guide for Women Navigating Love and Leadership in 2025

Explore how feminist-informed, trauma-sensitive couples therapy can empower women navigating the shifting expectations of 2025—at home, at work, and in their relationships.

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When Success Isn't Enough: How Inner Child Work in Couples Therapy Heals Modern Love
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When Success Isn't Enough: How Inner Child Work in Couples Therapy Heals Modern Love

Explore how inner child work in couples therapy helps ambitious, high-functioning partners build deeper emotional connection, heal attachment wounds, and move beyond success-driven survival modes.

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Healing Together: A Cornerstone Approach to Couples Therapy for Trauma, Infidelity, Addiction, and Inner Child Wounds
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Healing Together: A Cornerstone Approach to Couples Therapy for Trauma, Infidelity, Addiction, and Inner Child Wounds

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The Unseen Scars: How a Father's Attachment Wounds Shape Modern Relationships
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The Unseen Scars: How a Father's Attachment Wounds Shape Modern Relationships

Fathers mean so much to us in our childhood and contribute to our attachment wounds in adulthood, which is important to UNDERSTAND. We aren’t here to blame, guilt, or shame people doing the best they could with what they had.

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The Father Wound in Love: How Our Relationship with Dad Shapes Our Intimate Bonds
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The Father Wound in Love: How Our Relationship with Dad Shapes Our Intimate Bonds

In relationships, we often unconsciously look for partners to meet the unmet needs of childhood—to finally feel protected, chosen, approved of, or emotionally held.

But without awareness and healing, this search becomes a painful cycle of disappointment, frustration, and misunderstanding.

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