36 Questions to Increase Closeness
Developing closeness and being part of a cohesive group have several benefits. While indifferent and weak connections within teams may cause stress and dissatisfaction, strong in-group bonds improve morale, increase motivation, and promote trusting, respectful engagement between team members. This exercise will encourage reciprocal self-disclosure among group members to allow new and established teams to…
Read MoreSetting Goals With Your Partner
In this, our initial episode, Daun and Travis hit off the New Year talking about goal planning with your partner. How to plan goals with your significant other, why to plan goals with your spouse, and how to hold your partner accountable for achieving goals together. Read the Transcript: Yeah. So this is the first…
Read MoreFostering Admiration in Couples
While the honeymoon phase feels great, unfortunately, it tends to expire after about two years, as partners begin to notice and react to small irritations and disappointments more than to positive behaviors. Couples begin to see the relationship in a more realistic light; the warning signs they ignored early on begin to emerge as subtle…
Read MoreSetting Boundaries in Difficult Conversations
Your boundaries represent the limits of how you will allow others to treat you and speak to you. Setting your boundaries means assertively protecting your rights to your bodily, emotional, mental, or spiritual health, your ideas, your needs, and the like. It involves the ability to stand up for your rights in a direct way…
Read MoreManaging Toxic Relationships
All too often, we hang on to relationships that do not serve us. For whatever reason, we put the relationship or the other person before ourselves or our well-being. In this exercise, we will have a look at some of your difficult close personal relationships and work out whether it is in your best interest…
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