Small Things Often
Welcome to Small Things Often, a podcast from The Gottman Institute Successful long-term relationships are created through small words, small … Continued
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Teach Your Kids the Value of Self-Care by Creating Healthy Habits
Children, just like adults, benefit greatly from consistent and deliberate self-care activities.
Self-Care for Therapists: Avoiding Holiday Burnout
These self-care tips can help therapists avoid burnout and thrive during the holiday season.Â
Combat Stonewalling with Self-Care
Nip stonewalling in the bud with a healthy alternative. The antidote to stonewalling is self-soothing.
Arguments and Self-Care
By engaging in self-care, we can create the conditions necessary work out conflict and arguments with family and friends.
How to Practice Self-Soothing
Remember: the ability to self-soothe is one of the most important skills you can learn. Practicing it can help you not only in romantic relationships, but in all other areas of your life.
Friendship and Self-Care
How are friendship and self-care connected?
Self-Soothing Tips for High Conflict Couples
If your arguments feel out of control, you need to step away and bring yourself back to a calm state.
The Digital Age: Self-Esteem
Despite the vast and significant nature of changes made by technology on social dynamics, their specific effects are often frustratingly … Continued
Self-Care vs. Criticism
Part of taking care of yourself and your partner is learning how to avoid the use of criticism.
Physiological Self-Soothing
Try something that may feel totally foreign in the heights of your distress: breathe.
Self-Interest is Not Selfish in Relationships
If you’re struggling to find a healthy balance of authenticity and honesty with your selfless partner, perhaps you need to consider working toward deeper, more intimate conversations with them.