Relationships: Journal Prompt 10

Acceptance is an action you practice (sometimes daily) after you have done the work to set boundaries and implement change where it is needed.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 9

While both 'deal' with anger, they deal with it from a dysregulated place. Instead, we owe our relationships the space to deal with anger from a regulated—calm—place.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 8

There is an obsession with the pride of self-sufficiency, leaving many feeling alone and isolated.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 7

Margin—a built-in gap for patience in your relationship, breathing room, a space for mistakes, a place where expectations are not quite met.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 6

Even after you find a partner you love, someone who cares about you, and shows up for you, there are still limits to what a healthy relationship can provide.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 5

Rather than live in old terms with stale resentment, challenge them.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 4

In healthy relationships, you get to take—allow the people you love to show up for you, extend themselves, to be inconvenienced. To take, is a human part of mutual relationships.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 3

Anyone is capable of giving. Giving happens through your time, attention, emotions, actions—it is the intentional move toward your people. It is reorganizing your priorities and allowing someone to float to the top of the list. Giving requires your awareness. Giving in a relationship, requires slowing down, observing, and looking for opportunities to show up. … Continue reading Relationships: Journal Prompt 3 →

Relationships: Journal Prompt 2

Giving and taking is an expected part of any relationship, but when it is out of balance, in one direction, and for too long, they break down.

Relationships: Journal Prompt 1

The roots of your conflict often show up in two areas–differentiation and secure attachment. To thrive, relationships need both individual space and connected safety, a deficit in either can cause tension and conflict in your relationship.