Relationships can bring connection, comfort, and support, but they can also bring frustration, misunderstanding, and hurt. These resources offer practical guidance on strengthening communication, navigating conflict, setting healthy boundaries, rebuilding trust, and building relationships where both people feel heard, respected, and connected.
HANDOUTS & GUIDES
What helps a relationship feel safe, connected, and sustainable over time?
How do we talk about difficult things without immediately becoming defensive or disconnected?
How can I support my partner when they need understanding more than a solution?
How do I stay close to my partner without giving up my needs, limits, or individuality?
How can we disagree without turning one problem into a relationship crisis?
How do we reconnect after we've hurt each other or handled a disagreement badly?
Is keeping the peace the same thing as having a peaceful relationship?
Why does one of us feel responsible for noticing, remembering, planning, and managing everything?
How do I build a close relationship without disappearing into it?
How do we stay emotionally close when life is busy, stressful, or repetitive?
What helps trust return after it has been damaged?
Fillable Forms
How can we talk about our relationship before small problems become big ones?
Videos
Infidelity Trauma: An Interview with a Specialist
Infidelity can create a profound sense of betrayal, disrupting trust, emotional safety, and even your understanding of the relationship. In this video, an infidelity-trauma specialist explains why the emotional response can feel so intense and offers insight into the healing process. This resource may help betrayed partners feel understood while providing language for experiences that are often difficult to explain.
Infidelity Trauma: An Interview with a Specialist—Part 2
Continuing the discussion of betrayal trauma, this video explores the complex emotional impact of infidelity and what healing can look like over time. It offers further insight into common trauma responses, rebuilding emotional safety, and navigating recovery, whether partners ultimately choose to repair the relationship or move forward separately.
From Our Bookshelf
Offers practical strategies to understand thought patterns, manage mental overwhelm, and develop healthier ways to respond to stress and difficult emotions.
by Dr. Caroline Leaf
A direct, irreverent look at the habits, thought patterns, and self-defeating behaviors that can keep us stuck, with practical encouragement for taking responsibility, making changes, and getting out of our own way.
by Adam Marburger
A practical, approachable guide to managing difficult emotions, building resilience, improving motivation, and using everyday psychological tools to navigate life's challenges.
by Julie Smith
Explores neurodiversity through a strengths-based lens, highlighting the unique abilities associated with different ways of thinking while offering a more balanced perspective on neurological differences beyond deficits and diagnoses.
by Thomas Armstrong
Uses the “rainforest mind” metaphor to explore the intensity, sensitivity, creativity, perfectionism, and complexity often experienced by gifted adults and youth, offering validation and practical strategies for greater self-understanding and well-being.
by Paula Prober MS, MEd