The Five Winning Strategies in a Relationship
Keep having the same fight over and over? Learn how to break that cycle! Terry Real's five winning strategies offer a different way forward. They aren't about being perfect, suppressing your feelings, or becoming endlessly accommodating. They're about developing the skills that allow you to stay connected while still being honest about what you need.
Not You and Me, But Us
Seek To Understand, Then To Be Understood
One of the most common themes that arises in the therapy room - and in nearly every kind of relationship we experience from intimate partnerships, parenting, friendships, workplaces, or community - is the longing to feel understood.
When You Fight, What Are You Fighting For?
Couples often arrive in the therapy room with a familiar kind of exhaustion. Not because they argue, but because they argue the same way, again and again.
The storyline shifts. One week it’s money, the next it’s parenting, then intimacy, then time, then tone. But beneath the changing content, there is a recognition: we’ve been here before.
There’s a particular kind of discouragement that comes with that. It can begin to feel less like a disagreement and more like a pattern you’re trapped inside.
Creating the Villages We Long For- Andriana’s Travel Blog
If We Want A Village, We Have To Be Villagers
Villages don’t emerge from good intentions alone. They are built - slowly, imperfectly - through repeated relational choices. Becoming a villager is less about grand gestures and more about how we show up in the ordinary moments of our lives.