Anger Can Spread Like a Virus: How to Avoid Being Infected
Responding to someone else’s anger in a healthy way can be difficult. Learn strategies to keep yourself calm when faced with anger.
Responding to someone else’s anger in a healthy way can be difficult. Learn strategies to keep yourself calm when faced with anger.
Working together effectively is a matter of survival, and so being in each other’s good graces is essential, but is it problematic?
Learn how being able to remember the “good stuff” in your relationship can help you learn from the past and heal your relationship.
When your partner refuses to engage with you, it can be hard to move forward. Learn how to find a way back to communication.
When your partner’s behavior sends the message that they don’t truly take your thoughts and feelings seriously, it can be hard to cope.
You’ve heard the casual advice to “let it go.” But what does it really mean? Can you really do it? And, is it helpful?
Divorce is a complicated process -- and even more so during a pandemic. Here's what a therapist suggests.
Are the difficulties in your relationship signs that it is outright unhealthy? Here are 7 signs that it may be time for you to move on.
If you are living in a constant state of vigilance, appeasing your partner at all costs, what does that say about your relationship?
If stress is bringing out the worst in your partner – and possibly putting your relationship to the test – you may want to pause and reflect.
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Dr. Becker-Phelps is a licensed psychologist in NJ and NY, and is on staff at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, Somerset. She is dedicated to helping people understand themselves and what they need to do to become emotionally and psychologically healthy. She accomplishes this through her work as a psychotherapist, speaker and writer. She is the author of Bouncing Back from Rejection and Insecure in Love .
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