By Tara Brach — 2017
Applying Buddhist teachings to emotional healing with relationships, marriage, and lust.
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CLEAR ALL
Therapist Terrence Real’s five winning strategies that will rescue even the most unsalvageable relationships.
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You not calling, as a friend, can actually compound the grief and loss they are feeling. Just pick up the phone, even if you get it wrong, just have a conversation and do your best. Your friend with cancer is still the same person they were before.
Date night is so last year. What you ought to want is a meeting night. It may not be the sexiest concept, but listen up: This couple swears it's the way to guarantee true happiness, long term.
Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.
Parents often experience less closeness with the teenager than with the child.
Learning to express anger in a healthy way will help couples resolve conflicts, instead of letting them simmer.
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Passive-aggressiveness includes the obvious passive, withdrawn or apathetic approach to relationships. This approach will spill over into all sort of adult relationships, from friendships, intimate partners, school and on to the workplace.
There’s a gap between what you’re really thinking and what you’re saying. You’re distracted by all that’s going on inside and you’re uncertain about what to share and what’s better left unsaid.
Philosophers aren’t the only ones who love wisdom. Everyone, philosopher or not, loves her own wisdom: the wisdom she has or takes herself to have. What distinguishes the philosopher is loving the wisdom she doesn’t have.
If you think your partner needs to lose a few, approach 'the talk' with caution. Here's what to say — and what to skip.