by Stacy | Nov 23, 2021 | blog, Connection, Emotions, Growth, Healthy Communication, Healthy Relationships, Inner Work
Trust gets broken sometimes. It doesn’t have to be a big, horrible betrayal either. It can happen when we’ve been emotionally abandoned or when a loyalty we thought was rock solid turned out to be false. One of my biggest gut punches happened when I found out a...
by Stacy | Nov 9, 2021 | blog, Connection, Growth, Healthy Communication, Healthy Relationships
Making a good apology is one of the most critical relationship skills but so many people get it wrong. What they don’t realize is that they actually make everything a lot worse when they don’t do it or do it poorly. One of the ways we build trust in our relationships...
by Stacy | Oct 12, 2021 | blog, Connection, Healthy Communication, Healthy Relationships
They say we’re heavily influenced by the five people we spend the most time with, so doesn’t it make sense that our relationship is affected by the five couples we hang out with the most? What if a couple isn’t surrounded by fantastic relationships? What...
by Stacy | Apr 16, 2021 | blog, Boundaries, Connection, Emotional Trauma, Growth, Healing Trauma, Healthy Relationships, Inner Work
Do you even like that person who just broke up with you? Honestly? Take away all the history and memories and pretend they just walked into your life, fresh in this moment. Do you like who they are? Forget all the potential you saw in them or the relationship and...
by Stacy | Mar 12, 2021 | blog, Connection, Growth, Healthy Communication, Healthy Relationships, Inner Work
Relationships aren’t steady things. They’re fluid and moving. They have to be, because people are always changing (in good or not-so-good ways). That should be expected, not surprising. It feels awesome when we’re bounding forward, experiencing new things together,...
by Rebecca Schillinger | Feb 26, 2021 | blog, Connection, Growth, Healthy Communication, Healthy Relationships, Inner Work, Self Care
I’ve gone through my share of friendship break-ups and boy, have they been painful. I think it took me about three years to recover from one of them. I don’t want that suffering to be for nothing, so I always try to repurpose the pain as a lesson. What can I learn...