As a fairly capable independent person, I used to think I could do most things by myself. I figured I could figure out how to run a littl...

If you are like many of the sensitive folks I know, for the most part you have your life pretty “together”. You have work that you feel d...

It's not uncommon for the highly sensitive women I work with to be in a relationship with a partner who gets mad over little things she ...

In many of my earlier relationships, I thought the other person should be just slightly different, do things just a wee bit better, and t...

DEVELOPING your sensitivity, instead of suppressing it, may be one of the best things you can do for your marriage. Here's one of many ex...

Sometimes putting a lot into our relationships can feel like exhausting work. You may find yourself sometimes wanting to throw in the tow...

The need for love is big right now for most all of us. Love is like bedrock under all this uncertainty in our lives. AND, the challenges...

As grown-ups we tend to forgot we aren't “just the way we are”. We rely on our sense of who we HAVE BEEN to determine who we CAN BE. You ...

If I’m super honest with myself, in my early romantic relationships I signed up to BE LOVED. I didn’t sign up to LOVE. Deep down I was mo...

For much of my life I knew that I was supposed to love myself if I wanted to have a thriving love relationship with another person. I als...

Highly compassionate or highly judgmental. These are two easy "settings" that a highly sensitive persons brain can slip into. One causes ...

I’ve been talking about leading love a little bit lately—meaning taking responsibility for making your relationship the emotionally conne...

We women want different things than we used to when it comes to committed relationships. Generally speaking, what we want and expect out ...

The season of giving is wrapping up, but generosity never gets old. It's one of the most powerful forces to keep love alive. You know how...

If you’re wanting change in your life or love life, please, my friend, be onto YOUR BRAIN. It’s a rascally trickster when it comes to cha...

Here's a super simplified neuroscience lesson about how we create real lasting change at the brain deep-level. I like to use the metaphor...

You’ve heard me say it before, and it’s so essential I’ll say it again: having a loving lasting marriage is NOT a passive process. Why do...

How well-versed do you feel in the 7 Relationship Skills For Love That Lasts? If you're like most of us, you were never taught them and t...

Does a critical tone hurt you? Do you feel attacked easily? I used to get so hurt from the subtlest unkind tone from my husband when he‘d...

My parents were unhappy in their marriage for a long time. But my sensitive strong mother was committed to sticking with things, and over...