Asking for What You Need in a Relationship: Why If You Loved Me, You’d Know Backfires
Asking for what you need in a relationship beats hoping your partner reads your mind. Why If you loved me you would…
Difficult Conversations
Frameworks for planning and delivering the conversations everyone dreads: performance reviews, boundary-setting, hard truths.
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How to Deal With Disappointment: Sitting With the Feeling Without Burning It Down
How to deal with disappointment: it is the gap between expectation and reality. Learn to sit with the feeling, stay curious, and…
How to Get Out of the Drama Triangle: Victim, Rescuer, and Persecutor
How to get out of the drama triangle: swap victim for vulnerability, persecutor for assertiveness, and rescuer for resource. A guide to…
How to Deal With Energy Vampires and Negative People Without Losing Yourself
Learn how to deal with energy vampires and negative people without losing yourself. PCM®-based ways to protect your energy and your closest…
How to Have Difficult Conversations with Employees (Without Making It Worse)
Most managers dread difficult conversations because they have seen them go wrong: the employee shuts down, gets defensive, or leaves the meeting…
How to Navigate Family Drama During the Holidays Without Losing Your Mind
Dreading holiday family conflict at the dinner table? Learn PCM® boundaries, grief rituals, and how to protect your peace without losing your…
Is It Okay to Plan Intimacy? 5 More Relationship Myths Therapists Want You to Rethink
Think planning intimacy means something is broken? A couples therapist debunks 5 relationship myths about intimacy, conflict, and money to help you…
How to Set Boundaries Without Losing the Relationship
Learn how to set healthy boundaries without losing the relationship. A couples therapist shares a framework for anyone who is tired of…