Communication Blog Posts

Setting Healthy Boundaries With Children: A Parent’s Guide

Setting Healthy Boundaries With Children: A Parent’s Guide

Setting healthy boundaries with children can be difficult, especially when saying no leads to arguments, meltdowns, or guilt. Learn how parents can create clear, age-appropriate boundaries rooted in family values

When Your Teen Is in Crisis: A Parent’s Guide to Staying Steady When Everything Feels Scary

When Your Teen Is in Crisis: A Parent’s Guide to Staying Steady When Everything Feels Scary

When your teen is experiencing a mental health crisis, self-harm, suicidal thoughts, or overwhelming emotions, knowing how to respond can feel impossible. Learn how parents can stay grounded, assess safety,

How to Set Healthy Boundaries: 4 Things to Consider

How to Set Healthy Boundaries: 4 Things to Consider

Learn how to set healthy boundaries by understanding your needs, communicating assertively, and creating limits that support healthier relationships.

Couples Therapy vs Discernment Counseling: Which Do You Need?

Couples Therapy vs Discernment Counseling: Which Do You Need?

You’re lying in bed next to someone you used to tell everything to, and now you can barely look at each other. Or maybe things aren’t that dramatic. Maybe it’s

How to Win Arguments With Your Partner: Maximizing Return and Respect through ROI and ROE

How to Win Arguments With Your Partner: Maximizing Return and Respect through ROI and ROE

Regardless of how they start, arguments are a natural part of any relationship. Sooner or later every couple will find themselves at odds about something. So how can you win

Parenting a Child with ADHD: Challenges, Insights, and Lessons (Part 1)

Parenting a Child with ADHD: Challenges, Insights, and Lessons (Part 1)

What does ADHD look like on the “day to day”? This blog isn’t about defining ADHD with clusters of symptoms, diagnoses, or debates over medications. If you’re interested in the

Cutting – Teen Self Harm Survival Guide for Parents

Cutting – Teen Self Harm Survival Guide for Parents

Is That Blood? Cutting. It’s a scary moment for even the most seasoned parent. Maybe you noticed some scratches on your daughter’s arm before. At that time you simply dismissed

Finding Hope After the Affair

Finding Hope After the Affair

The infidelity that has occurred is a testament to the fact that the very pillars of your relationship have been compromised – honesty, trust, communication, and commitment. Rebuilding those pillars

Thinking and Communicating Relationally

Thinking and Communicating Relationally

What does it mean to think and speak relationally?  It simply means to think in terms of “we” rather than  “me and you,” or even worse, “me versus you.”