Author Archives: Susan Heitler
Self-Talk: Create-Your-Own Anxious, Depressed or Happy Moods
Your self-talk can keep you feeling good—or can make you prone to depression, anger, or anxiety. Take this quiz to clarify if your self-talk habits are helping or hurting you.
Sexless Marriage Causes and Cures
A sexless marriage is a vulnerable marriage. Here are some strategies if yours looks to be in jeopardy.
Severe Parental Alienation: A Mental Health Emergency
Long legal battles prolong and intensify alienation. The longer the courts take to intervene, the worse the alienation is likely to become, and the harder to reverse.
Some Ways to Practice Are More Perfect Than Others
What separates world-class performers from everyone else is how they practice. Here are the keys to becoming far better at whatever you love doing.
Should You Use This Word? It Decreases Your Effectiveness
There is a common yet all-too-potent word that can profoundly undermine you. It also can antagonize others. Fortunately, there's tricks for eliminating it from your vocabulary.
Slime Mold Shows Us How to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic
What could a lowly organism like slime mold teach us about handling the challenges of this time of both medical and financial potential disasters?
Solve Tough Dilemmas With the Win-Win Waltz
To settle conflicts with resolutions you both feel good about, use this worksheet to guide you through the three steps of the "win-win waltz." You can both always be right.
Should Kids Have a Voice in Post-Divorce Planning?
Do father and mother know best? Will kids feel caught in the middle? Or are kids the experts in what will be best for them?
Sexual Intercourse and Talking Together: What’s the Same?
What could sex and talking together possibly have in common? Lots....
Self-Diagnosing Your Marriage Problems? Beware!
Eric Clapton's famed song suggests "Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself." To diagnose and fix problems that come up in your marriage, sit down and look inward instead of pointing fingers at your spouse's errors.