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Do This to Save Your Marriage: How to Calm Down and Speak Non-Defensively

June 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC amygdala, amygdala-hijack, andspeak, andspeak non-defensively, animal component, basic human connection, brain, break eye contact, calm, calm experience, circuitry, classic marital impasse, cortex, counsel session, couple 's impasse, default mode network, diamond-in-the-rough, diamond-in-the-rough husband, Dr. Gottman, emotional contact, emotional earthquake, felt-sense, felt-sense experience, fight-or-flight chemical, gentle fist, hair-trigger instinct, happiness, husband 's marital Richter scale, impasse, instinctual brain, John Gottman, leave control, marriage researcher, marriage researcher 's mantra, mind-worshipping, mind-worshipping culture, new default mode network, new neural connection, newfound ability, non-defensively, partner, prefrontal cortex, process sensation, reactive wife, red alert reflex, reptilian brain, responsive husband, sensation, simple ground, simple way, small moment, small moment of new behavior, sweep thing, talk time, tsunami of feel, wife 's emotion, wife 's lack, wife 's lack of reactivity, wife seek connection, withdrawn husband

Wife: (taking her seat): I think I’m done. Husband: (looking confused): With what? Wife: The marriage. I’m done with the

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Mental Wellness

The Relationship Pulse Check: A Ridiculously Easy Way to Reconnect and Recharge

April 1, 2022June 22, 2022 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC airless quality, area of relationship stress, Band-Aid approach, check, counsel, counsel session, couple activity, couple counsel, couple counsel session, couple therapy work, detector, Dr. Gottman, easy way, evidence-based, evidence-based questionnaire, flow of relationship, good therapist, high degree of emotional intelligence, https://counselinghuntsville.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Relationship-Poop-Detector.pdf, individual work, John Gottman, makeup sex, marital poop detector, marriage counsel session, marriage researcher, natural ebb, partner, perspective, poop, poop detector, professional help, pulse, questionnaire, rare couple, regular couple activity, relationship connection, relationship corrosion, relationship poop detector, relationship pulse check, relationship stress, session, subtle relationship corrosion, track of relationship stress, unhappy couple

The Relationship Pulse Check is more than a “date night” Band-Aid approach to reconnecting with your partner. Think of it

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Mental Wellness

Empathy 101 for A-Holes: A Love Story

August 1, 2021October 18, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC 100% empathy, a-hole, a-holeness, bad can, brief moment, brief moment of connection, brief moment of utter exasperation, checklist, checklist approach appeal, client, client 's wife, cognitive empathy, counsel session, difficult relative, emotional empathy, empathic concern, empathy, empathy 101, empathy microchip, fix-it mode, genuine way, good care of the kid, good news, gridlock, Harvard business review series, inner a-hole, inner Empath, inner empathic side, let, let 's practice, let 's raise, let 's start, lucky break, moment, narcissist, natural curiosity, occasion of empathic response, operation empathy, partner 's nervous system calm, person 's perspective, personality transplant, raise heart rate, sign of emotion, strong rational mind, system calm, total narcissist, type of empathy, utter exasperation, wife 's bad mood, wife 's emotion, wife 's posture, wrong raise heart rate

“The reason I’m here is my wife is unhappy with me. I’m worried about her because I think she’s really

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Mental Wellness

How to Get to a Breakthrough without Having a Breakdown

June 1, 2021September 9, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC afloat hold pattern, authentic human connection, autopilot mode, bad boyfriend, boyfriend, brain, brain 's need, breakdown, brief description of rain, client, comfort balm, comfort of the familiar fake, compassion, conflict aspect, conflict aspect of complex situation, counsel session, critic attack, crowd of stranger, curiosity, disorient sense, disorient sense of discomfort, emotional risk-taking, familiar fake, field of awareness, friendly curiosity, good type of guy, human programme, inner adrenaline junkie, inner critic attack, less-functional, less-functional behavior pattern, narcissistic boyfriend, neuroscientist, present moment, present-moment reward, present-moment reward of therapy, rain, reward, reward option, sensation, session, survival-inspired, therapist, therapy, too-bad-to-keep-it, too-good-to-rock-the-boat, unsettle experience, wave of sensation, window of tolerance, wonder change, young adult life

“Why do you keep going back if it’s making you feel worse?” my boyfriend asked. We were talking about one

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Sex, Power, and Boundaries

June 1, 2015 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC ►, ► husband, ► husband 's contemptuous response, ► husband 's critical response, ► husband 's defensive response, ► husband 's stonewall response, 81 % chance, American cultural revolution, behavior, blind spot, boundary tension, counsel session, couple operationalize, cue, doable behavior, easy step, flip side of Gottman 's research, Gottman, Gottman 's research, Gottman 's study, John Gottman, life couple, man tone, marital minefield, marriage will self-destruct, misread cue of sexual interest, negativity, partner, partner 's influence, real life couple discuss area, relationship strategist, self-destruct, sex, sexual banter, sexual boundary tension, sexual interest, specific type of behavior, stable marriage, study of marriage, successful couple, unprecedented detail, unprecedented detail of real life couple discuss area of conflict, wife 's feel

The period drama “Mad Men” highlighted the American cultural revolution during the 1960s, when it was a man’s world at

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Complementary Care

Is That All?

May 1, 2014 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC appeal invitation, behavioral communication, complete book of Guys, counsel session, couple 's friendship, determine factor, difficult conversation, divorce mediation project, emotional equilibrium, emotional withdrawal, even hostility, excellent application, female client, good possible position, head nod, interest survey, John Molloy, man 's comment, man love bitch, quality of the couple 's friendship, reliable survey, surprise thing, verbal cue, woman start, woman talk

When I asked my husband to review the list below, he asked, “Is that all? You’ve just learned five things

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Tinnitus: Is There Really Something That can Be Done?

May 1, 2012 Ann Rhoten audiology, counsel session, debilitate effect of tinnitus, experience tinnitus, feel of hopelessness, habituation, healthcare professional, hyperacusis, instruction demystifies tinnitus, loss of enjoyment of life, negative counsel, neutral signal, origin of the suffer, people experience tinnitus, perception, refrigerator run, seen claim, sound therapy, sound tolerance issue, source of tinnitus, sufferer, sufferer of the tinnitus, therapy, tinnitus, Tinnitus retrain therapy, tinnitus signal, tinnitus sufferer, tolerance, tolerance issue, TRT

Epidemiological studies suggest about 50 million people in the United States have tinnitus. The majority of those people experience tinnitus,

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