Nancy Oblete

Self-Soothing

Last week in my post on ‘The Art of Listening,’ I mentioned that we could use self-calming skills to help us while listening, but what are these skills, and how can we use them? Many of us already use these tools consciously sometimes. Self-soothing is the ability for one to calm themselves down after being

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Time To Seek Help

I woke up a few weeks ago feeling sad as I watched helplessly a marriage disintegrate. In truth, the relationship had failed years earlier – we are just seeing the external manifestation. In the construction industry, we define building failure as a crack in any structural element (columns, beams, foundation, and roof members). This definition

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Marriage Mentor

John Mason said in his book ‘The enemy called average’ that ‘life is too short to experience everything yourself’ – learn from other people’s experiences. The same is for marriage; even though our challenges in relationships do not always come in the same forms, the wisdom of older couples can help newlyweds in no small

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