Are Decisions Logical or Based on Emotional Needs?

    According to brain researchers: Emotional needs and passion are at the core of our decisions! As much as we may try to pretend otherwise, in our natural state, we really only use rational thinking when justifying our emotion-driven … [Read more...]

A Healthy Response to an Anger Attack

   Very often, people express their anger by “venting” so releasing their boil of unhappy emotions by verbally exploding.  The explosion makes the angry person feel good temporarily by decreasing the pressure inside and making the angry person feel a … [Read more...]

How to do Relationship Repair for this “Marriage Contract” ?

  Sharing what Mark Waller, The Dance of the Lion and the Unicorn, says in page 111, we have: “The subconscious agenda behind the wedding is that this other person will finally heal our pain. Of course, we are completely unaware of our pain … [Read more...]

When Communications Hurt

We all know that sometimes a fight doesn't end with the words of forgiveness. Sometimes past hurts linger in the back of our mind, and without us really thinking about it, we fling those hurts back into the fight that happens the next day, week, or … [Read more...]

Trusting Yourself after Emotional Abuse

Emotional abuse is meant to hurt  emotionally, of course, but it also hurts intellectually.  It begins to make the victim wonder if the words and actions are warranted.  Always questioning whether the abusive behavior is deserved. Eventually this … [Read more...]