Instead of Focusing on Loving Your Body, Consider This Instead
We wait to do all sorts of things until we finally love our bodies. Which often means that we wait to create fulfilling lives until we lose weight or fit…
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A Salute to Caregivers: I Know Your Silent Agony as you Watch your Loved One Suffer
This is for you, the husband watching his wife in the last throes of dementia. It’s for you, the mother watching her six-year-old so weakened by chemotherapy that he can’t…
Breaking Free from Unskillful Patterns
We’re helpless victims of our conditioning until we become conscious. ~ Ajan Sumato Linda: Some of us come into marriage with an optimistic attitude; and some of us are aware that we…
The Madonna-Whore Complex
In psychoanalytic literature, a Madonna–whore complex is the inability to maintain sexual arousal within a committed, loving relationship. First identified by Sigmund Freud under the rubric of psychic impotence, this…
The Challenge of Creating the Partnership of Our Dreams
Linda: If you’re finding it challenging to create the relationship of your dreams, it doesn’t mean that you’re a poor student. Rest assured that most others probably don’t find the…
Stress and Its Good Friend Vertigo
I’ve been struggling again lately with vertigo. Just to be clear (because I know vertigo can affect each person differently) my vertigo likes to sneak up and surprise me….often when…
In Service to Each Other
Linda: Consider this story of devotion about a couple that takes time and effort to show how much they cherish each other. Mira: “I know that Ari loves me, and even when…
From Fear to Fearlessness
Fearlessness is not an absence of fear; it is being committed to something bigger than the fear. That something can be another person’s safety, a higher purpose, a calling, or…
A Cancer Diagnosis: A Shared Couple Journey
Facing a Cancer Diagnosis as a Couple “I heard the word malignancy but I couldn’t take it in. I didn’t cry until I told Jack.” “I could tell from her…
6 Ways to Nurture Your Relationship During the Holidays
We’d like to share a piece about our work originally published by Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and written by Portland Helmich interviewing Linda and Charlie Bloom During the…
5 Supremacist Ideals (Lies) a Narcissist-Sociopath Is Hooked On
Like an addict, a narcissist-sociopath** numbs the pain of feeling human with quick-fix, temporary feel-goods. He’s hooked on illusions of power over others, and regards tools of deception and lies,…
We Are All Members of the Scar Clan
Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform…
How To Date Someone With ADHD
I think it’s time we gave out some of our secrets. Well, okay, they aren’t secrets, they’re more like observations that haven’t been made by neuro-typicals. The NTs aren’t unobservant,…
Having the Courage to Desire
Linda: The foundation of vision is desire. To even begin such a process, it is necessary to trust that such an outcome is possible for us and that we are worthy…
Part 1: The Nature of Empathy – A Case Study
Mother and Daughter Elise, 36, has Asperger’s. She sits in her mother’s living room, researching the neurological implications of trauma spectrum disorders in early childhood development.
30 Characteristics of Happy Couples
Linda:When my husband Charlie and I were interviewing the happiest couples we could find, we could clearly see that they were among the group that was keeping passionate romance alive…
Why Is This So Hard
I’m about to go do a little job. The job involves replacing a switch on my big boat. I also have to install the battery on it to make sure…
Who Taught You What Love Is? Did They Get it Right?
Who taught you about love? Who taught you how to love? What did it look like? How did it sound? Act? Walk? Talk? Think?
Asperger’s and Marriage: He’s Always Looking for Debate
Meet Iris Iris, a woman in her mid-thirties, was a successful quality and compliance manager who transitioned to working part-time from home so that she could be a stay-at-home mom…
Why Sports Are So Important For Behavioral Development
It probably goes without saying that sports are usually a healthy activity for children to be a part of, but a lot of times our kids end up on sports…