Women’s Issues Articles
Listed by most recent articles first.
- Five Ways To Create a Secure Attachment with Your Baby, Without Sharing Your Bed
After giving birth the first time, I stayed home for three months, ...
- Eating Disorders Spike Among Middle-Aged and Older Women
When you hear the term, eating disorder, many people may typically think of a perfectionistic adolescent girl heavily into ...
- Couples Therapists Reveal: 15 Lessons I’ve Learned About Relationships
Relationships are hard, no doubt about it.
There’s no magic elixir or method to making them work. ...
- I Love My Mother, But… Practical Help to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship
In her book, I Love My Mother, But... Practical Help to Get the Most Out of Your Relationship, Linda Mintle, Ph.D, a licensed marriage and family therapist, features hands-on advice and excerpts from the Bible ...
- Resetting Roles: A Challenge for Everyone
A new study by Forbes Woman and the pregnancy website TheBump.com found that 92 percent of working moms and 89 ...
- Intimate Relationships As a Vehicle for Growth
The old paradigm for couples was pretty simple: The man went to work, brought home the money and paid ...
- Daddies Do Make A Difference
“Congratulations on your wife’s pregnancy,” I said to an acquaintance I ran into in the parking lot at the grocery store. ...
- Coping with the Grief of a Stillborn: An Interview with Ann Faison
The word stillbirth is used to describe the loss of a pregnancy after the 20th ...
- 15 Insights on Improving Mother-Daughter Relationships
Mother-daughter relationships are complex and diverse. Some mothers and daughters are best friends. Others talk once a week. Some see ...
- Competition Among Women: Myth and Reality
Women seem to have a reputation for being “catty” and competitive with other women, unlike how men behave with other ...
- Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression
Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. And Pec Indman, Ed.D., MFT is a very good read for such a serious subject that not only teaches ...
- 11 Hints for Resolving Relationship Irritations
Dirty socks left on the floor — the fifth time this week — texting during your dinner date, forgetting ...
- Understanding and Managing Your Controlling Mother
You are 35 years old and your mom is still trying to run your life. She doesn’t approve of your boyfriend. She thinks your best ...
- Parents Important in the Prevention, Awareness of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are now epidemic in the United States. Approximately 11 million women and girls struggle ...
- Challenging Body Distortions Through the Eyes of the Body
Body image is the picture in our mind's eye of how we look to ourselves. It reflects our beliefs about how we think others perceive us ...
- Making the Most of Your Whole Self: Being an Embodied Therapist
Since human beings communicate through their bodies long before they learn to talk, the language of ...
- 5 Steps to a Successful Marriage
"It doesn’t take hard work to keep a relationship happy or stable over time," says Terri ...
- Pregnancy Diary: Anxiety in Pregnancy
I've been feeling strangely calm during this pregnancy, not too worried about things going wrong or having a difficult labor. There are ...
- Pregnancy Diary: Starting To Believe It’s Real
So I've now been to the hospital to have my 20 week "anomaly" scan, where they ...
- How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship
Conflict gets a bad rap. We automatically assume that conflict will collapse a relationship. Some of us ...
- Questions To Ask As A Couple Before Getting Engaged
When it comes to marriage, love doesn’t conquer all. Being on the same ...
- Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
Neuroscientist Simon LeVay made headlines with his pioneering work comparing the brain structures of gay and straight men. His 1991 article in Science led the way for numerous studies of sexual orientation as it relates ...
- Attention Couples: Becoming a Skilled Listener and Effective Speaker
It's likely that just about every person would say they’re a good listener. But listening isn’t an innate ability all ...
- Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self Acceptance
Humans are obsessed with body image. The media says we should look a certain way, else we be outcast and forgotten. Although men do feel the need to have an attractive appearance, women are more ...
- A Good Sex Life is Not Just About Chemistry
Sometimes sexual problems are the body’s way of communicating a message to us that cannot ...
