Author Archives: Susan Heitler

What Leads Alienated Parents to Give Up on Their Children?

What common misunderstandings about alienation can hinder parents in the struggle to reconnect with an alienated child?

What’s All This Talk About Couple “Communication Skills?”

Before you think of committing to marriage, be sure that you and your potential partner have the communication skills to build a marriage that will be forever loving and lasting.

What’s Fair? Two Views of Government

Democrats and Republicans tend to see each other through the prisms of rigid negative beliefs. Could a more mutually respectful perspective enable us all to get along better?

What Stops Arguments? Emotional Self-Regulation Skills

Five emotional-self-regulation techniques that can help put an end to arguing.

What Sport Does Collaborative Dialogue Mimic?

Cluelessness about the skills that sustain cooperative dialogue puts people at risk for difficulties in their relationships—in friendships, at work, and at home.

What’s Up With Online Therapy and Marriage Counseling?

Is web-based therapy the way of the future? And is the future already here now?

What’s the Best Career For Me? A Quick Way to Identify It

Try this quick three-question visualization to learn the essence of the kind of work you most enjoy doing.

What Tennis Players Understand About Handling Losses

Tennis players need to become masters of managing disappointment. Winning is an addictive upper. Yet by the end of every tournament, all the players but one have lost.

What to Do With Your Parents Once You’re a Grown-Up

As your parents age into the autumn years of their lives, what kind of relationship do you want to create with them?

What Happens When Adults on the Spectrum Sing and Dance?

Can children with autism and other mental and physical handicaps grow into adults who can sing, dance, build friendships and enjoy life? Take a look at this video and find out.