by admin | Sep 28, 2019 | DBT, Relationships, Trauma
Mariam came to me in desperation. She was utterly broken, alone and miserable. She had been married to her husband for seven years and it felt like their marriage was over. They were constantly fighting over the smallest things, they had lost their intimacy and...
by admin | Sep 21, 2019 | DBT, Parenting, Relationships
Practicing Radical Acceptance With In-Laws From Another Culture My husband is Iraqi and his family only speaks Arabic. I am a mish-mash of cultures and I definitely don’t speak Arabic. Every time I visit his side of the our family, I get asked the question ‘why...
by admin | Sep 14, 2019 | DBT, Relationships
When I was getting married, my to-be-husband wasn’t supposed to see me for a week before our marriage. When I shared this with him, he looked at me with a puzzled look and said that’s not going to happen. The world is getting smaller and marriages within different...
by admin | Aug 20, 2019 | DBT, Parenting, Relationships, Uncategorized
Please note all details of any client have been removed to maintain confidentiality. Sarah and Jacob had been married for 7 years. When they came to see me they were sitting on opposite ends of the sofa and within moments they would get locked into battles. I could...
by admin | Aug 6, 2019 | DBT, Relationships, Uncategorized
Last week I talked about my honeymoon. This week I want to share with you my first year of marriage. That was almost 9 years ago. In October 2010 we got married. I remember the first year I screamed at my husband, a blood curling scream that it felt like someone else...
by admin | Jul 27, 2019 | DBT, Relationships, Uncategorized
When I look at my honeymoon pictures, I can see the frustration and sadness that I felt in our first few months of marriage. My husband and I came from opposite ends of the worlds. He was raised in Iraq and I was mainly raised here in the US as a North American...
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