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The Importance of Learning to Get Along with Friends Who Disagree

Many people today are avoiding talking about the election. In fact, some people have lost friendships and relationships over their different political viewpoints. While at a luncheon not too long ago, I observed the way the room divided along political lines, people gravitating to like energy to ... Read More

Today’s Youth and Sandbox Politics

Several years ago, during Arianna Huffington’s Shadow Convention, I was on a CNN political panel addressing the cynicism of teen voters. I learned from that experience that teens have defaulted their participation in politics. Today, when teenagers tell me that they feel cynical about the ... Read More

Tips to Help Children Cope With Divorce

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Divorce is hard, for all of the individuals involved. When your parents decide to get divorced, you may experience many different, overwhelming, and even conflicting emotions. You may feel torn between the two people you love the most, and you may even feel to blame for what has happened. It is ... Read More

The Right Time to Get a Divorce

Right Time to get a divorce

There are those who believe that people who get divorced simply take the “easy way out.” As someone who has studied and written about human behavior and relationships, I can tell you: there is nothing easy about divorce. Simply reaching the decision and the point in your relationship where ... Read More

Keep Passion Alive

Keep Passion Alive

Romance and sexual passion are connected in a very real way to the deepest patterns of our childhood, those relationship patterns that we experience with our mother and father from the earliest stages of development. Parental bonds The way your parents cared for and bonded to you, the way they ... Read More