Two lessons on how to manage emotional triggers and shame
Triggers can feel overwhelming, but with vulnerability and self-awareness, they can become opportunities for growth and deeper connection.
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How to Stay True to Yourself in a New Relationship
Do you find yourself putting your plans on hold and losing touch with your individuality whenever you start a new relationship? While it’s natural to feel excited about a budding romance, it’s important to stay grounded and maintain your own identity. This guide will show you how to balance love and self-care with actionable tips for nurturing your individuality while fostering a healthy, lasting connection with your partner.
Do you have Realistic Expectations For Your Partner?
A big part of having a successful relationship is maintaining reasonable expectations. When your expectations are unreasonable, they will frequently go unmet. You become upset and angry when someone fails to meet your expectations.
How to Stop Arguments from Escalating in Your Relationships: 2 Strategies to Build Stronger Connection
Here are two quick strategies to stop arguments from escalating, improve your communication, and strengthen your relationship.
Avoidant Attachment Style: 3 Major Challenges and Effective Strategies
Micheal discusses his experience with having an avoidant attachment style, highlighting three common challenges and strategies to overcome them.
The CPR Process of Repair
“The CPR Process of Repair” – is a 3-step roadmap to help couples recognize their cycles, step away from heightened emotions, and come together to process their feelings and resolve conflicts in a healthy and constructive way.
Carving Out Quality Time With Your Partner
In today’s fast-paced world, it’s crucial to prioritize quality time with our significant others. This involves establishing rituals, engaging in meaningful conversations, and supporting each other’s well-being.
Creating Harmony and Balance: Relationship Rules and Daily Organization
Having clear relationship rules and organizing your daily lives is a practical and crucial step towards a fulfilling and harmonious partnership. By acknowledging that life can get messy and unpredictable, you and your partner can work together to establish a system that caters to your needs and values.
How Do I Know When It’s Time to Get Help For My Relationship?
It can be confusing to know if you should get help for your relationship, and then even more confusing to know who to get help, and what kind of of help you need! Read more to find out
Developing a Relationship Growth Mindset
Psychologist Carol Dweck introduced the concept of a Growth Mindset, which is the ability to bounce back from setbacks and view mistakes as opportunities for learning. We believe this concept can also be applied to and improve your relationships.
The Power of Compassion
This includes being firm when necessary, setting boundaries as an act of self-care. These elements, when combined, form the foundation of a strong, resilient relationship.
Connection Styles and Embracing Vulnerability
Individuals have preferred ways of connecting with their partners, such as physical touch or deep conversations. We stress the importance of understanding and accommodating each other’s styles through open communication, fostering mutual respect and harmony.
Role of Emotion in Relationships
Understanding and openly sharing core emotions like sadness, fear, shame, loneliness, hurt, surprise, and joy can lead to deeper connections in your relationships.
The Role of Adult Attachment Styles in Relationships
Attachment, a term often used by researchers to describe the emotional bonds we form with significant others, is the foundation for how relationships function. In this blog post, we explain the intricate dynamics of adult attachment styles, and how they shape the way we feel and act in our relationships.
Habit #10: How To Better Yourself First in Your Relationship
Better Yourself First refers to how stronger individuals lead to a stronger couple. A healthy relationship needs two healthy individuals. This is a core belief for us here at BetterYourself365. Our whole philosophy as a company is based on this.
Habit #9: How To Have Realistic Expectations in Your Relationship
Thinking that a relationship means being totally head over heels with each other all the time is unrealistic. This feeling might last for a few years (or less), but then life happens, and lots of ups and downs come along.
Habit #8: How To Set Clear Relationship Rules with Your Partner and Organize your Daily Life (finances, chores, and parenting)
Life with a partner will be filled with messiness, stress and miscommunication! This is probably the most practical tip of all our Habits, but so many couples don’t do this part thoroughly enough.
Habit #7: How To Talk About Sex With Your Partner
Sex doesn’t look the same between couples. Some like to experiment more, some swear by frequency, some are into fantasy, and others are okay with less sex. But the important thing is that it works for both partners.
Habit #6: How To Dream Together – Setting Goals With Your Partner
Sharing our thoughts with our partners on bigger life issues usually doesn’t just happen on its own. You have to make room for it. If you and your partner only talk about the daily grind, then you might not let yourself share at this deeper level.
Habit #5: Respect Each Other
You can’t fake respect. You have to feel it. But if you feel it, it doesn’t mean you always show it as much as possible. Be aware of behaviours that may start to cross the line and show a lack of respect that can, without a doubt, snowball into a more significant negative impact on your relationship.
Habit #4: How To Prioritize Your Relationship
Prioritizing your relationship means that you often put your relationship in front of everything else. Not all the time, but most of the time. It comes from a belief that a healthy relationship is the cornerstone of every healthy family. It’s essential to stay connected as a couple through life’s ups and downs, so you have to make time for your relationship regularly.