In Flux

Embracing transitions and change

Abigail Brenner M.D.

6 Signs That Your Spouse Is Having an Emotional Affair

Sometimes a marriage/relationship gets off track. Instead of the couple working on it together one of the spouses finds comfort, attention, & attraction with some else. What to do?

5 Ways to Deal When Your Spouse and Mother Don't Get Along

You want the two people you love so much, your spouse and your mother, to get along. But often, they don't. Here's how to not get caught in the middle.

Toxic People, Part III

Some equate toxic people with a specific personality disorder and are offended at how they are referred to and treated. Toxic isn't limited to any one group & can refer to anyone.

5 Strategies to Make Your Holiday Season the Best It Can Be

Many people look forward to the holidays. But once they're here, you may feel overwhelmed and exhausted. Enjoy your holidays by planning ahead.

The Pain of Loving Someone More Than They Love Back

Sometimes partners love differently. If your relationship is a lot of work and your partner seems passive or disinterested, don't ignore your feelings.

9 Ways to Strengthen Your Resilience

What helps some people get through life's challenges while others seem incapable of handling difficulties? Resilience---the ability to bounce back when bad things happen.

7 Strategies to Help You Cope with Anxiety

We all experience anxiety, but excessive or inappropriate anxiety can make you feel overwhelmed or out of control. Here are useful strategies to help you cope in difficult times.

6 Ways to Keep the Flame Alive in Your Relationship, Part 2

More ideas about what it takes to keep the flame alive in your relationship.

7 Ways to Keep the Flame Alive in Your Relationship

Relationships are works in progress. It's easy to get caught up in the routine of life. We need to find ways to honor our partner and keep the spark of love and respect alive.

5 Things You Missed While You Were on the Internet

Technology has afforded us so much. But what are we missing when we spend too much time on the Internet?

5 Key Points to Help You Change Your Life

Before you embark on any major endeavor it's a good idea to map out what you want to happen and how to accomplish it. Past experiences and transitions provide vital information.

5 Ways to Regroup, Reprioritize, and Renew Yourself

By allowing our lives to mimic the cycles of Nature we are reminded that there are always opportunities to change or start over.

5 Ways to Take Care of Yourself Emotionally

Mastering your emotions, no matter what the situation, is a powerful strategy and tool to help you get through life in the best possible way.

7 Strategies to Deal With Difficult Family Members

Sometimes we're just forced into a situation that we have little control over. Being related is just one such circumstance. Be true to yourself while being sensitive to others.

10 Things to Ask Before You Commit to a Forever Relationship

Often managing our own lives is a big job. Now imagine what it's like when you invite another person to share your life. There are essential questions to ask before you commit.

5 Small (Big) Things to Make the New Year a Better One

We all make resolutions to start a new year. But do we keep them or do we just make the same resolutions every year without results? Here's a new way to look at making change.

Five Tips to Help Accomplish Whatever You Want to Do

Change is inevitable. The step-wise process of change can be mastered to help you make the needed changes to your life and to accomplish desired goals.

10 Things to Help You Stop Being a People Pleaser

If it's a good thing to do good for others, does it follow that the more you do, the better you feel? Not necessarily.

The ABCs of a Caring Relationship

The alphabet is a useful and fun way to find the words/qualities that define what you're looking for in a relationship.

Six Ways to Focus on What's Important in Your Life

While there's much we can't control happening around us there's always room to take back and refocus our attention on making our own lives as meaningful and fulfilling as possible.

8 Things the Most Toxic People Have in Common, Part II

The label "toxic" person carries with it many opinions and feelings. This blog tries to clarify various concerns expressed in the comments.

7 Key Points to Help You Transition Through Change

Change is inevitable. Yet for many, transition and change bring up uncertainty, fear, and anxiety. This piece offers helpful ways to cope, enjoy, and even embrace change.

5 Ways to Strengthen the Intimacy in Your Relationship

Life has a way of becoming fast, busy, and routine. In the course of living our lives we may take our relationship for granted. We need to take the time to keep intimacy alive.

7 Building Blocks of a Great Relationship

So many have a hard time finding and sustaining good relationships. Perhaps, because we have not done the necessary work on ourselves to help us identify the essential qualities.

Why Do I Feel Like a Fraud?

People sometimes feel that who they appear to be doesn't truly reflect who they are. In essence, they feel as if they are fooling people and that one day they will be found out.

5 Strategies to Relieve Anxiety

Anxiety is a state all of us will encounter probably many times during the course of a lifetime. Because it can cause much discomfort and worry, mastery of it is essential.

The Power to Change in Trying Times

The changes going on in the world are testing many of us to the limits. While many changes are seemingly out of our immediate control, what remains for us to control is ourselves.

The 7 Signs That You've Found Yourself a Loving Relationship

The most challenging relationship in your life is with yourself. The second most challenging relationship is with your partner in an intimate relationship.

"I Think It'll Get Darker Before It Gets Lighter"

This beloved story is one of self-discovery and transformation. Every time we venture forward into unknown territory we change, transforming into a fuller expression of ourselves.

9 Classic Traits of Manipulative People

Manipulative people prey upon your good and caring nature and then pull you into intrigue and drama of their own making.

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