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Pretty Privilege: The Hidden Bias Shaping Your Self-Worth
Pretty privilege is real, and it shapes far more than how you look. A psychologist and a beauty researcher explain how appearance bias runs self-worth.
Resentment in a Relationship: What It’s Actually Telling You
Resentment in a relationship is a signal, not a character flaw. Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Alyssa Zander on what it’s telling you and the two moves you have.
How to Communicate With Your Partner Without Fighting
How to communicate with your partner without fighting starts before you open your mouth. Two therapists on why the same fight keeps happening at home.
How to Overcome Insecurity: The New Science of Self-Worth
Overcoming insecurity is not a confidence problem. Dr. Marisa Franco on how memory shapes your self-worth, and the new science of changing what it says.
Control Issues in Relationships: Where They Really Come From
Control issues in a relationship usually are not about control at all. A licensed marriage and family therapist explains where they come from, and what helps.
How to Stand Up for Yourself (Without Being Aggressive)
Learn how to stand up for yourself without being aggressive. Cornell researcher Dr. Sunita Sah on your values, the Defiance Compass, and when to speak up.
Hostile Work Environment: What It Means and What You Can Do
Hostile work environment or just a toxic job? A psychologist explains the legal difference, why HR isn’t really on your side, and what you can change now.
Signs Your Relationship Will Last a Lifetime (And How to Know)
Will your relationship last a lifetime? An MFT explains how to tell a solvable problem from a real deal breaker, and why to do it before you get engaged.
How to Process Emotions: What Your Dark Feelings Are Telling You
Learn how to process emotions without trying to get rid of them. Psychotherapist Daniel Smith on what boredom, regret, and shame are really telling you.
Mental Load in Relationships: Why You’re So Drained
The mental load in relationships is the invisible thinking work that never stops. Here is why it curdles into resentment, and what actually helps you share it.
Moral Injury: How to Deal With Guilt That Will Not Lift
Still haunted by something you did? Moral injury has a name, a mechanism, and a way through. A psychologist explains how to deal with guilt that will not lift.
How to Make a Decision When You Have Too Many Options
Wondering how to make a decision when every option looks good? Bestselling author David Epstein on why more choice backfires, and what actually works.
How to Communicate Better With Your Partner: Start Here First
How to communicate better with your partner: why communication comes first, what emotional safety really looks like, and how to break the same old fight.
When to Leave a Relationship: The Third Path Nobody Mentions
Wondering when to leave a relationship? A marriage and family therapist explains how discernment counseling brings clarity, plus a third path nobody mentions.
Financial Stress in Marriage: Getting Good With Money
Financial stress in marriage strains even strong couples. Learn how to talk about money without fighting, ease the pressure, and feel financially whole.
How Can I Change My Life? The High-Agency Path to Getting Unstuck
Wondering how you can change your life? Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and author Cate Hall on the high-agency mindset that turns feeling stuck into real momentum.
Nervous System Regulation: How to Calm Your Reactivity and Reconnect
Why do you get reactive while your partner shuts down? Nervous system regulation explains it, plus the nine senses and simple ways to calm down and reconnect.
How Often Should Couples Have Sex? Why the Real Answer Isn’t a Number
How often should couples have sex? A sex therapist explains why the real answer isn’t a number, plus the hidden reasons desire fades and how to reconnect.
How to Find Your Sustainable Pace and Calm Your Nervous System (with Elizabeth Svoboda)
Swinging between all-out effort and total collapse? Learn how to calm your nervous system and find your sustainable pace, with writer Elizabeth Svoboda.
Can’t Sleep? How Exhaustion Is Quietly Wrecking Your Relationship
Sleep is a foundational building block for a healthy and happy life. Here’s why you can’t sleep & how to resolve the issue.
Why You Have Poor Time Management (It’s Not What You Think)
Poor time management usually isn’t a discipline problem, it’s a choosing problem. Here’s the reframe (and the weekly method) that changes it.
Lack of Communication in a Relationship? Decode Your Style
A lack of communication in a relationship usually isn’t about effort. It’s about style. Learn the 5 communication types and finally feel understood again.
Nervous System Regulation: How to Come Back from Chronic Stress
Somatic educator Liz Tenuto explains nervous system regulation: how chronic stress tips you into survival mode, and simple practices that reset it.
How to Be More Confident: Gain Real Confidence From Within
You can be good at your job. You can be the person other people come to for advice, the one who looks composed in the meeting and calm in the crisis, and still feel your stomach drop the second the stakes go up. If you have been quietly wondering how to gain confidence that actually holds up when it counts, the kind that does not evaporate the moment something unexpected walks into the room, you are not imagining the problem, and it is not a character flaw.
Signs Your Relationship Will Last a Lifetime (And How to Know)
Will your relationship last a lifetime? An MFT explains how to tell a solvable problem from a real deal breaker, and why to do it before you get engaged.
How to Communicate Better With Your Partner: Start Here First
How to communicate better with your partner: why communication comes first, what emotional safety really looks like, and how to break the same old fight.
Can’t Sleep? How Exhaustion Is Quietly Wrecking Your Relationship
Sleep is a foundational building block for a healthy and happy life. Here’s why you can’t sleep & how to resolve the issue.
Lack of Communication in a Relationship? Decode Your Style
A lack of communication in a relationship usually isn’t about effort. It’s about style. Learn the 5 communication types and finally feel understood again.
How to Emotionally Connect With Your Partner: The Skill of Attunement
Wondering how to emotionally connect with your partner? Attunement is the learnable skill that helps you both feel truly seen, heard, and understood. This episode will teach you how.
How to Get Over a Broken Heart
How to Get Over a Broken Heart: What Really Works (When Nothing Else Has) with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Jesse Stanley Listen on Share Stuck on Your Ex for Years? It’s Not a Life Sentence Heartbreak isn’t a willpower problem. It’s a real biological state — and the small daily behaviors you don’t think about are keeping the attachment fed, no matter how much time has passed. A year. Two years. Five years. Ten. Still stuck on the same person. If any of those numbers landed somewhere specific, I want you to hear this […]
How to Fix Your Marriage When You’re the Only One Trying — Dr. Lee H. Baucom
What to do when you’re the only one trying in a relationship. Learn how to stop chasing and shift the pursue-withdraw cycle.
How to Fix Communication Problems: Conflict & Repair Skills That Build Trust — Thais Gibson
Stuck in the power struggle stage in relationships? Learn how conflict, attachment styles, and repair skills build trust and emotional safety.
How to Date Smarter Without Burning Out (And Still Stay Open to Love)
Dating shouldn’t destroy your confidence. Learn how to date smarter, avoid burnout, and build real connection without losing yourself in modern dating chaos.
Empowered Connections
You deserve to feel loved and respected, and have positive relationships that support the well-being of everyone involved — including you. This collection is full of advice on setting healthy boundaries, managing problematic relationships, and building empowered connections that lift you up.
Relationship Clarity
The relationship clarity collection has expert advice from our couples and family therapists to help you gain discernment about whether growing together is possible.
Affair Recovery
Healing your bond is a process, not an event. This collection is here to support you through your journey of healing. The affair recovery collection features expert articles and podcasts on affair recovery, emotional affairs, healing trust, and rebuilding connection.
Long Distance Love
Long-distance relationships have unique strengths and challenges. The Long-Distance Relationship Collection features long-distance relationship advice from our experts that will help you keep your love strong and secure, across the miles.
Dating Advice: Find True Love
You deserve a beautiful love story. This collection of dating advice from our relationship experts and resident dating coaches features articles and podcasts on finding the one, dating strategies, building healthy relationships from the start, navigating love after loss, and more.
Happy Family
Building a family is a beautiful experience, but it comes with challenges too. The Happy Families Collection features expert advice from our marriage and family therapists and parenting coaches to help your family grow through all phases of life.
Emotional Intelligence: For Love, Happiness, and Success
Emotional Intelligence is the key to everything — Love, Happiness, and Success. In this collection: expert advice for gaining self-awareness, developing stronger personal and professional relationships, building your communication skills, and cultivating emotional wellness for a happier, healthier you.
The Premarital Collection
The Premarital Collection includes articles and podcasts from our expert premarital counselors to help set your marriage up for success.
Relationship Repair
Healing your bond is a process, not an event. This collection is here to support through your journey of healing. The affair recovery collection features expert articles and podcasts on affair recovery, emotional affairs, healing trust, and rebuilding connection.
Healthy Relationships
In the Healthy Relationships Collection, you’ll find empowering advice to guide you through your journey into healthier, happier relationships with your friends, family, significant other, and most importantly… yourself.
Emotional and Sexual Intimacy
Sexual intimacy and emotional intimacy are deeply intertwined. The Emotional & Sexual Intimacy Collection has curated, intimacy expert advice to help your relationship grow closer on every level.
Communication That Connects
Working on your communication skills is the most important thing you can do to strengthen your relationship. In the Communication That Connects Collection, you’ll find resources for communication repair, constructive conflict, empowered communication skills, advice for building healthy boundaries, increasing emotional intimacy, communicating with a withdrawn partner, and more.
Growing, Together
In this collection you’ll find thoughtful advice to help you understand each other, develop ways of connecting that make you both feel loved and respected, improve your communication, get on the same page about money and marriage, build a powerhouse partnership, and make your good relationship great.
How to Evolve: Change Your Life When You Feel Stuck
Wondering how to change your life when you feel stuck? Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby shows you how to read your emotions as signals and evolve into your next chapter.
How to Stop Overthinking: A Psychologist’s Guide to a Calmer, Braver Mind
How to Deal With Uncertainty (and Actually Feel Calmer) with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Liz Tran Listen on Share How to Stay Steady When Everything Is Changing Adaptability isn’t a personality. It’s a skill — and Liz Tran calls it AQ, the agility quotient.
How to Stop Overthinking: A Psychologist’s Guide to a Calmer, Braver Mind
How to Stop Overthinking: A Psychologist’s Guide to a Calmer, Braver Mind with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Dr. Chloe Carmichael Listen on Share Why You Shouldn’t Try to Get Rid of Your Anxiety Anxiety isn’t a defect. It’s a signal — and the goal isn’t to delete it, it’s to learn what it’s trying to get you ready for.
How to Parent Adult Children Without Pushing Them Away
How to Parent Adult Children Without Pushing Them Away with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Catherine Hickem, LCSW Listen on Share Blindsided: Why Adult Children Pull Away Estrangement rarely arrives as one blowup. It builds over years of small moments where an adult child slowly stops feeling safe — until the parent wakes up to a relationship that already feels broken.
Nervous System Overload: Why You Don’t Feel Safe in Your Body (And How to Heal)
Nervous System Overload: Why You Don’t Feel Safe in Your Body (And How to Heal) with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Amy Kurtz Listen on Share The Gap Between Sick and Well Nobody Warned You About Your body and your nervous system run on different timelines. Physical recovery and nervous-system recovery are two separate processes — and almost nobody tracks the second one. Here’s something I see in my office almost every week. A woman comes in and her life looks good on paper. The illness has a diagnosis. The divorce is final. The baby […]
How to Stop Overthinking
How to Stop Overthinking: A Former Monk’s Tools for a Calm, Clear Mind with Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and Sam Yo Listen on Share You Don’t Need to Escape to Find Stillness Overthinking is not a thinking problem. It’s a nervous system that learned to feel safer by thinking — and the strategy now runs on autopilot in moments when there’s nothing to control. It’s the conversation you can’t let go of. It happened at 4 PM, and now it’s 1 AM, and your brain has rehearsed every possible version of it, every line you […]
Why Do I Keep Doing This? The Real Reason Habits Stick—and How to Finally Change Them, with Kati Morton
Struggling with habits you can’t seem to change? Learn the real reason habits stick and how compassionate change actually works.
Healing After Heartbreak
Going through a bad breakup or divorce is awful, but there is support for you here. In this collection you’ll find advice to help you heal from toxic relationships, rebuild your self-esteem, reclaim your inner peace, and move forward into a bright new future.
Holistic Life Design
All things are possible when you know who you are, what you want, and how to make it happen. The Holistic Life Design Collection features expert advice from our life coaches, career counselors, therapists, and relationship experts to help you get clarity about yourself, and design your lifestyle, career path, and relationships in alignment with your authentic truth.
Moving Forward, Fearlessly
You’re ready to move forward, but how? Knowing that you want things to be different is one thing: Actualizing real and lasting positive change in your day-to-day is another. In this collection you’ll find expert advice to help you achieve your most precious goals.
Empowered Connections
You deserve to feel loved and respected, and have positive relationships that support the well-being of everyone involved — including you. This collection is full of advice on setting healthy boundaries, managing problematic relationships, and building empowered connections that lift you up.
Mind/Body Well-Being
You deserve to feel authentically happy, healthy, and whole. This requires a holistic approach that honors the interdependent nature of your mental, emotional, and physical health. This collection is filled with advice to support your whole-self wellness, from the inside out.
Cultivating Self Confidence
Believing that you are worthy of love and respect, and having a healthy relationship with yourself are the foundation on which healthy relationships with others, personal wellbeing, and professional success are built. Browse this collection for support in developing confidence, self-esteem, and authentic empowerment.
Emotional Intelligence: For Love, Happiness, and Success
Emotional Intelligence is the key to everything — Love, Happiness, and Success. In this collection: expert advice for gaining self-awareness, developing stronger personal and professional relationships, building your communication skills, and cultivating emotional wellness for a happier, healthier you.
Healthy Relationships
In the Healthy Relationships Collection, you’ll find empowering advice to guide you through your journey into healthier, happier relationships with your friends, family, significant other, and most importantly… yourself.
Emotional Wellness
You deserve to be happy. Browse this collection to find compassionate wisdom for growth and healing that helps you develop inner strength and resilience. Plus, you’ll get helpful strategies for overcoming stress, managing anxiety, and feeling good again.
Personal Growth
If you’re working on yourself, you’ll find support for your self development here. The Personal Growth Collection features expert advice from our therapists and coaches to help you gain new self-awareness, figure yourself out, change your patterns, and find clarity (and direction) in the process.
Why You Have Poor Time Management (It’s Not What You Think)
Poor time management usually isn’t a discipline problem, it’s a choosing problem. Here’s the reframe (and the weekly method) that changes it.
Holistic Life Design
All things are possible when you know who you are, what you want, and how to make it happen. The Holistic Life Design Collection features expert advice from our life coaches, career counselors, therapists, and relationship experts to help you get clarity about yourself, and design your lifestyle, career path, and relationships in alignment with your authentic truth.
Professional Growth
Professional development doesn’t stop once you choose a career — that’s just the beginning. This collection has advice to help you craft your career trajectory, grow as a leader, build positive relationships, and maintain a healthy work/life balance that prioritizes your wellbeing, as well as your values.
Career Clarity
You deserve a meaningful career that enhances and energizes your life. The Career Clarity Collection features expert advice from our career coaches and career counselors to help you get clear about your passions, values, skills, and opportunities, so you can make thoughtful and empowered career decisions, with confidence.
Moving Forward, Fearlessly
You’re ready to move forward, but how? Knowing that you want things to be different is one thing: Actualizing real and lasting positive change in your day-to-day is another. In this collection you’ll find expert advice to help you achieve your most precious goals.
Cultivating Self Confidence
Believing that you are worthy of love and respect, and having a healthy relationship with yourself are the foundation on which healthy relationships with others, personal wellbeing, and professional success are built. Browse this collection for support in developing confidence, self-esteem, and authentic empowerment.
Emotional Intelligence: For Love, Happiness, and Success
Emotional Intelligence is the key to everything — Love, Happiness, and Success. In this collection: expert advice for gaining self-awareness, developing stronger personal and professional relationships, building your communication skills, and cultivating emotional wellness for a happier, healthier you.
Personal Growth
If you’re working on yourself, you’ll find support for your self development here. The Personal Growth Collection features expert advice from our therapists and coaches to help you gain new self-awareness, figure yourself out, change your patterns, and find clarity (and direction) in the process.