Effectively Communicating with Your Spouse

An Interview with Therapist Diane DuBois LMFT By: Jaleh Are you having a difficult time communicating with your spouse? If so you’re not alone. Many married couples have a difficult time getting along because of poor communication skills. To help understand common communication mistakes married couples...

Cherishing Behavior and How to Keep It

Cherishing Behaviors For Couples: Some Suggestions When you are reading this, you will recall some of the pleasing and delightful behaviors that drew you to each other during courtship, or which were practiced during some happy times or even in crisis times. Select from this list, or one of your own, two or...

How to Deal With an Angry Spouse

It is important to differentiate the spouse whose anger is a healthy response to various partner insufficiencies, such as lack of attunement, inadequate empathy, neglect, poor partner functioning -in short anger as a protest to loss of love and safety – and anger which is more characterological, i.e.,...

Coping with Cancer

Breast cancer continues to be the most common cancer in women in the United States. According to the American Cancer Society, an estimated 192,370 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed each year. Today there are about 2.5 million breast cancer survivors living in the United States. Therefore, it is...

Body Checking

Women and girls struggling with anorexia and bulimia often exhibit telltale signs of these disorders.  Anorexia is sometimes easy to recognize because the impact of the disorder is so visible. Due to severe weight loss, those with anorexia may look ill. Yet some with anorexia conceal their extreme thinness...