Articles
Here you will find articles and blog posts I have written about healing relationships, healing trauma, dialectical behavior therapy skills, and mindfulness.
Why marriages fail even with the best of intensions
Learn why marriages fail and whether lack of communication skills are the cause.
How to Fix Your Broken Marriage
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...
Your In-Laws Are Coming And No You Haven’t Learnt Their Language
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...
Planning a Wedding with Multiple Cultures
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...
Stop Doing What’s Not Working
I went to a community center today and there I saw a classic strategy being played out without any success. Let me explain. When I entered the community center, which was a small rented hall, there were kids playing. Running around and talking. You know, kids being...
From ‘I hate you’ to ‘I’m beginning to fall in love again’
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...
From Panic Attacks to Experiencing Joy in a Relationship
* Please note all details of any client have been removed to maintain confidentiality. The story below is not of one unique person but a synthesis of experience of many individuals I work with. Jackie was a young professional when she began working with me. She was...
How DBT Saved My Marriage
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...
I Wasn’t Always Happy
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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