Women’s Issues Articles

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• When Conversations Go Wrong: The Anatomy of Disconnection in Relationships
  Ever feel like your conversations with your partner get lost in translation? Or that a seemingly ...
• 8 Surprising Myths About Relationships
  There are hundreds of myths about relationships, according to Terri Orbuch, Ph.D, a Michigan clinical psychologist and author of ...
• A Band-Aid for a Marriage in Crisis
  Imagine a heavy-duty truck riding off the road, slipping down a hill and getting stuck in thick, sticky mud. Trying ...
• 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 ...