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Articles on relationships, family and wellbeing.
What effects does abandonment have on children when they become adults and have their own relationships?
Children learn to not trust. They learn those closest to them will let them down. Children also become people pleasers and take this into their adult relationships looking for approval. They haven’t been taught what healthy attachment looks like and become codependent in their relationships. Due to...
2020 Central Coast Local Business Awards Winner
We are extremely proud to announce our business won an award at the 2020 Central Coast Local Business Awards. We won in the category of Outstanding New Business of the Year. We’d like to thank all our amazing clients, family and friends. The support and trust has been truly overwhelming.
Conflict in Families
Children internalise the way their parents model conflict and conflict resolution if there is any resolution. Some parents model conflict by tearing each other down, name calling, blame, yelling, deflecting and criticising. The problem with this is when children become adults and form their own roma...
Can My Relationship Be Saved?
If two people are willing to work together, respect each other, stop all name calling, attacking, deflecting and criticism during conflict with added positive communication skills, their relationship can not only turn around, but they will feel that emotional and physical connection again. Learn to...
Cheating in Relationships
Cheating isn’t always physical. Affairs can be emotional, constant messages via texts, messenger, Instagram, etc. If your partner is constantly deleting their messages, changing their password on their phone, keeping their phone with them, unexplained time away from home or extra time at the gym, wo...
Living with a Narcissist
To those outside the family, they are charming and may even portray themselves as a victim. Within their family, they are abusive,(verbally, financially, sexually, spiritually and or psychologically and emotionally.) If they have children, one child maybe their “golden child” whom they are obsessed...
Symptoms Of Codepency In Relationships
Low self-esteem Feeling you’re not good enough or comparing yourself to others. People-pleasing Saying no to people causes anxiety. Sacrificing your own needs to please others. Poor boundaries Blurry or weak boundaries. Feel responsible for other people’s feelings and problems. Reactivity React to e...
How Secure Is Your Relationship?
️Does something feel off between the two of you? ️Do you miss the closeness you use to have? ️Have you noticed you both have stopped communicating? ️Have you both stopped being physically and emotionally intimate? ️Is there more conflict or silence between the two of you? If you’ve answered yes to a...
A Relationship Changer
Active Listening ♦️ Active listening is a technique used to resolve conflict. ♦️ Active listening involves paraphrasing to confirm what the other person has said. ♦️ Active Listening involves not interrupting the other person but rather waiting until the other person has finished speaking. ♦️ Active...
Are You Being Gaslighted In Your Relationship?
Gaslighting is when a person manages to make their partner question their reality. This is a technique used in abusive relationships. Gaslighting is done slowly so the victim isn’t aware they are being brainwashed. The goal of brainwashing is to make the victim believe they are losing their grip on...
What Does Trauma Bonding Look Like?
When a person is in a toxic or abusive relationship including drug addiction and or alcoholism, they remain in the hope things Improve. Why does a person in this type of relationship think things might change? Because some days outside of toxic and abusive behaviour look “normal.” If the victim is a...
Are You Trauma Bonded?
Does your partner break promises and you’re still waiting for them to come through for you? Your friends are shocked by the way you’re spoken to or treated by your partner but you don’t recognise the toxic behaviour. Your partner displays destructive behaviour and you just accept it because you don’...