The Wellness Diary
Insights, advice, new research, tips and tricks, and new resources to help you with your mental health journey.
Lost Libido: How a Lack of Sex Drive Is Straining My Relationship
On a psychological level, it's important to realize that sex drive is not merely about the physical urges experienced by the body. It's also deeply intertwined with emotional states and relational dynamics. This includes the way you relate to others and how you perceive and manage your inner emotional world. Therefore, understanding sex drive requires a comprehensive exploration of these multifaceted influences.
Navigating the Path to Marital Bliss: Premarital Counseling in Salt Lake City
Premarital counseling offers couples a chance to explore key aspects of their relationship. This includes understanding each other's ways of communication, managing finances, exploring intimacy, and setting common family planning goals. It's a safe space to have tough conversations, guided by a professional. This proactive approach tackles potential issues early on, preventing them from becoming bigger problems. In turn, it helps couples build a robust, satisfying, and enduring relationship.
How to Preserve Marriage When Going Through Difficult Life Event
The couple vows to nurture, protect, and grow the marriage. But sometimes, it is challenging to maintain a healthy marriage considering the children, work schedules, and other obligations. Every marriage encounters struggles; the vital thing to note is to face the hardships together.
The Five Love Languages: How They Show Up In Relationships
If you haven’t heard of the five love languages you may not realize how much it is affecting your personal relationships. Dr. Gary Chapman, the author of Five Love Languages, designed this book to help others more effectively communicate love. As humans, we long to love and be loved. With that in mind, everyone expresses and receives love differently. The five love languages are the different types of ways we all receive and express love.
Episode 40: Understanding Commitment Phobia
Episode 40: Sandra discusses commitment phobia and the impact that it has on individuals and relationships. Sandra cover signs that you may be in a relationship with a commitment phobic person and what to do about it.
Episode 15: Healthy Love LA
Episode 15: Barry Davis, LMFT and Shana Diskant to discuss their group therapy approach to helping people develop healthy relationships and how they use a combination of mindfulness and CBT to teach new client's new ways of communicating, connecting and caring for their relationships.
Episode 14: How To Survive A Narcissistic Romance
Episode 14: Alla Branzburg, LCSW joins me for an in-depth discussion about narcissistic personality disorder and her work with couples where one or both partners have this diagnosis.
Episode 12: The Space Between
Episode 12: Ms. Cocharo discusses the beauty that exists in "the space between" and how she helps couples reconnect by looking at each other with admiration, curiosity and respect for each person's experience in the relationship.
Episode 10: Let's Talk About Sex
Episode 10: Alicia Brandt, LMFT will be discussing why sex is such an important part of a relationship, how to talk about it and ways that she helps couples communicate their needs better.
Attachment Patterns: Understanding What Happens In Our Relationships
Our attachment style is formed in earliest moments of our existence, but it holds power over the rest of our lives, especially when it comes to how we function in our closest intimate relationships.
4-Signs That You're Headed Towards A Break Up.
Break ups are hard! When relationships come to an end, it's normal to experience feelings of grief. They can trigger buried experiences of prior losses but unlike a death- the person is still out there. It makes this loss different and at times even MORE traumatic.