In Flux

Embracing transitions and change

Abigail Brenner M.D.

5 Strategies to Cope With Toxic Family Members

While blood may be thicker than water, relatives that bleed you with their toxic behavior may need to be limited or totally cut off for your own health and sanity.

7 Steps to Create a Roadmap for Your Life

Knowing how to navigate through change is a great tool to help us manage our lives.

5 Strategies to Navigate Any Situation Successfully

Developing the ability to navigate through a range of challenges will help you become more confident and capable of creating the life you want.

7 Ways Couples Can Argue More Constructively

Teaching people early in life how to listen and how to discuss differences constructively should be part of some kind of educational curriculum. It would be a game-changer.

7 Ways to Improve Your Life Now

We resolve to make changes but often they're left by the wayside. Thinking about your life in an holistic way helps you to organize the real changes you want to make.

7 Ways to Cope After the End of a Relationship

So you thought this was "it," your forever and always one. Sometimes the rug is pulled out from under our feet and we must deal with the loss of the one and the ending of a relationship.

The Question Is: What Do I Want?

We're often programmed to consider others' needs and forget to include what we want personally. We need to know ourselves first, what we want, before we can help others.

4 Signs That a Relationship Could Become Dangerous

When a loving relationship turns into codependency and the need to control another's behavior, you've got an unhealthy relationship.

5 Ways to Avoid Drama

Life is exciting enough without unnecessary drama. So why do some people seek it out?

10 Ways to Keep a Relationship Going Strong

Getting the love you want by practicing mindfulness and respect.

5 Ways to Tell That It's Love and Not Just Infatuation

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love takes hard work.

5 Essential Tips to Ensure Happiness the Second Time Around

So your first relationship failed. Having a happier relationship the second time is not just about finding somebody else. Learning from your mistakes will ensure a better outcome.

5 Tips to Help You Respectfully Agree to Disagree

Sometimes we disagree with someone on a key topic. Engaging respectfully is the key to agreeing to agree or agreeing to disagree.

7 Ways to Mend a Broken Heart

Suffering a broken heart is one of the most devastating events in a person's life. Gaining insight into what happened will help you make better choices in the future.

5 Ways to Improve Your Relationship Starting Now

Is your relationship all it can be? Has it gotten stale? Have you gotten lazy? Here are a few things you can begin today to bring back that spark and excitement you once had.

7 Ways to Fix What's Wrong with You

Sometimes things go wrong in your life. After a while, you start to think that you're the problem. These strategies can help you turn your life around.

5 Reasons Why It's Important to Let Go of the Past

Letting go of the past is often hard to do—all of the expectations, hopes, and dreams that won't happen. But letting go is essential to change and that is what life is all about.

5 Ways to Tell That Your Partner Is the Right One

It may seem easy to fall in love with one special person. But is it the right person? The right one is not only partner and lover, but best friend and companion.

10 Red Flag Warning Signs of Abuse

Sometimes abuse is obvious from the outside. Other times, it's hidden from the scrutiny of others. A relationship built on controlling and hurting another in any way is never acceptable.

5 Reasons Why It's Important to Forgive

When you forgive, everyone benefits. Forgiveness allows both parties to move on in their lives unencumbered by past hurts and free of negative emotions.

7 Ways to Prepare for the Death of a Loved One

Death is inevitable. The idea that the one you love the most may leave you is often too much to bear. Yet, preparing for this death will inevitably help you move on with your life.

5 Tips to Help You Deal When Life Suddenly Changes

Life is full of change. But there are those rare times in history when a potentially catastrophic event affects everyone. How do we cope?

5 Tips to Come Back to Your Authentic Self

During your life, you are many things to many people. You assume many roles and identities. But at the core of it all, who are you?

5 Ways to Reconnect With Your Partner

Relationships are always changing and evolving. It's essential to take the time and effort to reconnect and recommit.

10 Tips to Create Healthy Boundaries During Self-Quarantine

Setting personal boundaries is essential to maintaining integrity. Shelter-in-place with others challenges us to find ways to keep our space and distance.

Love in the Time of Corona

These are times when all humans are being challenged by a potential killer. While we understand the gravity of the situation, we need to look at the positives coming out of this.

10 Ways to Inspire Your Children

It is our obligation and duty to not only raise our children but to give them every opportunity to experience life and expand their world.

7 Strategies to Put the Past Behind You

Is living in the past preventing you from moving forward? Here are some ways to master the past and use what you've learned to create a better future.

5 Tips to Help You Live With Uncertainty

Uncertainty—that in-between phase when you don't know what will happen and have little control over the outcome—can be very unsettling. Here's how to make it work for you.

5 Tips to Respectfully End an Intimate Relationship

When a relationship—one you have invested your time, effort, and emotions in—shows signs of falling apart and can't be salvaged, how do you bring closure in a way that respects both parties?

  • Previous
  • Page 1 (current)
  • Next