Learn how to set healthy boundaries in relationships, including dating and long-term communication patterns, emotional boundaries, and people-pleasing.

Supporting a loved one after trauma can be especially challenging when you haven’t experienced anything similar yourself, making it hard to fully understand their feelings or reactions. This piece introduces ten practical and gentle ways to offer effective support while respecting that everyone processes trauma differently.

Anger is a complex and often misunderstood emotion that can be both destructive and protective, shaped by how we learned to express or suppress it early in life. Though sometimes labeled a secondary emotion, anger is valid and can serve as a source of control, self-worth, and insight into deeper feelings like hurt or sadness.

Self-Trust can only happen if you have a relationship with yourself. A positive relationship. The opposite is true -you can easily erode your trust in self if you are in a cycle of self-sabotage. Basically means that you are making choices that go directly against your personal goals and values.

Mothers are often our first point of connection in the world, forming early emotional and physical attachments in many different types of mother–child relationships. These early interactions with primary caregivers strongly shape how we view ourselves, others, and the world around us.

I want to invite you to think of these few words and notice what emotions come up for you: rent, groceries, gas, inflation, bills. What did you notice? Did you feel your heart quicken, or that sensation of wanting to distance yourself from what these words represent for you? 

Roles in relationships help make them work and often reflect our upbringing, identity, or aspirations. They can form naturally or out of need and are influenced by social, personal, and systemic factors—so it’s worth considering the roles you play with yourself and others.

Families can evoke deep gratitude or frustration, shaping our beliefs and attachments from an early age. Life is a lesson, and here are practical tips for navigating your “group project” called family.

How would you describe your relationship with your in-laws, and is it how you’d like it to be? In-law dynamics, like any family relationships, evolve over time, and here are some ways to show up authentically.