

Decline the Invitation: How to Step Out of Relationship Conflicts
With the holidays approaching, you might want to consider saying “No” to certain invitations to keep your relationships healthy. And despite it being 2020, I’m not talking about COVID. Rather, I want to talk about declining invitations to conflict or dysfunctional patterns in your life. All year, perhaps even daily, you receive invitations to engage in negative patterns with your partner or family members. Once you add in the stress of the holiday season during a pandemic, th


How to Find Courage to Be Uncomfortable
People tend to think relationships should be easy. They take the most perfect day of their relationship and use that as the measuring stick for what every day should be like. But in reality, relationships are mundane, messy, and everything in between. To make it through these normal parts of our relationships, we must learn how to find courage to be uncomfortable. Courage is what we need to do the things that are uncomfortable. We need courage to set boundaries so we don’t ge