Empowered Connections
Cultivate Positive Relationships
You deserve to feel loved and respected, and have mutually positive relationships that support the well-being of everyone involved in them — including you.
The Empowered Connections Collection is full of wise advice from our expert relationship counselors to support your ability to set healthy boundaries, identify (and manage) problematic relationships, develop your confidence in relationships, and create empowered connections that lift you up.
The Latest Posts in The Empowered Connections Collection
How to Build Friendships: Skills for Emotional Intimacy & Feeling Connected | Barnet Bain
Learn how to make friends as an adult and overcome loneliness. Discover the friendship skills that create real connection.
Why Boundaries Protect Relationships: Assertive Skills for Emotional Intimacy
Learn how to set boundaries in a relationship, stop people pleasing, and build healthy boundaries that strengthen emotional intimacy.
How to Deal With Trust Issues
Unresolved trust issues in a relationship are exhausting — for both of you. Learn how to get over trust issues and feel secure again.
How to Set Boundaries: Learn Skills to Reduce Burnout & Stress With Boundaries — Ginny Priem
Learn how to set boundaries without guilt, stop overfunctioning, and reduce burnout at work and in relationships.
Can’t Stop Obsessing About Them? Limerence vs Love and How to Manage Unhealthy Feelings
Learn the difference between limerence vs love, why obsession happens, and how to stop limerence in a healthy, supported way.
How to Negotiate With A Narcissist: Learn Skills to Communicate & Set Boundaries in High-Conflict Relationships (with Rebecca Zung)
Learn how to negotiate with a narcissist using practical negotiation tactics to set boundaries and protect yourself in high-conflict relationships.
Gaslit, Betrayed, and Deceived: How a Con Artist Manipulates Emotions and Skills to Protect Your Well-Being
Learn how a con artist manipulates emotions, causes betrayal trauma, and how to protect yourself and recover safely.
Enneagram Types and Relationships: Is Your Personality Compatible with Your Partner’s?
Learn how enneagram types shape relationships, conflict, and emotional connection—and how understanding personality can strengthen your bond.
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