Author: Alice Boyes, PhD.

Rumination = the tendency to respond to distress by repetitively (and passively) focusing on the causes and consequences of your problems, without moving to active problem solving. <strong>Here's two

Almost all of you reading this will have had an experience of having been in a romantic relationship that got less happy as time went on. What goes

I thought I’d do something I haven’t done before – open a post up for comments. This is my version of an exercise from Dr Kristin Neff’s book.

What’s at the root of your argument? Relationship arguments tend to be fundamentally about versions of the question “Can I rely on you?” Examples 1. Can I rely

I’ve been getting lots of feedback that people like the visual learning tools. Modeled on the Healthy Food Pyramid. It’s a pdf. View or download it at the

Have you ever wondered why couples talk baby talk to each other? Its because evolution didn’t create a new system for bonding partners together, it just borrowed the

View pdf here (It’s a diagram).

Timing If you’ve just done a task and you’re going to need to do it again at some future time point: write yourself a list of the steps

One of the principles of a productivity system called Getting Things Done is that people need a system for being reminded of the information they need, at the

Research into the psychological benefits of self-compassion is an emerging trend in psychology. I actually prefer the term self kindness. Self-compassion is about learning alternative responses when you