Get To Know Amy Juleson
Tell us a little about you. I was born in Connecticut and raised in Tucson. I spent all my summers back East and all my family moved back after I completed high school. I moved to San Diego temporarily 20 years ago after visiting during Spring Break and just haven’t...
Get to Know Barbara Rorbach
Tell us a little about you. I was born and raised in Switzerland and moved to San Diego when I was 25 years old. I speak German, French, and Italian. I am very interested in languages and different cultures and spent my early twenties backpacking South America and...
Get to Know Meghan Semler
Tell us a little about you. I was born and raised near Philadelphia and attended undergrad at Kenyon College where I played soccer, studied Chinese Religions, and spent a semester abroad in Taiwan. After college I worked at a brokerage firm in DC and then for the...
5 tips to improve communication in your relationship
Is your relationship stuck in a rut because of issues you are ignoring? It doesn’t have to be this way. By learning to communicate better with your partner, you can address issues before they become problems and provide needed emotional reassurance. Even couples who...
FIVE HABITS THAT HELP TO MANAGE CONFLICTS
People used to believe that highly satisfied couples had very few disagreements and very little conflict. But when relationship researchers measured the incidence of disagreements, they discovered that highly satisfied couples disagree just as often as other couples....
FOUR HABITS THAT DAMAGE RELATIONSHIPS
Marriage researcher John Gottman’s groundbreaking work on how couples interact revealed the four most common interactional patterns that damage relationships. While everyone exhibits these behaviors sometimes, when they become habitual, they are damaging to the...
BIDS FOR ATTENTION AND CONNECTION
What is a “bid” and how do you make one? Marriage researcher John Gottman calls bids the “fundamental unit of emotional communication.” Bids are actions that people take to connect to or to gain the attention of their partner. Bids can take many forms: pointing at...
ATTACHMENT STYLES
Attachment for Survival Many people are aware of typical survival routines like fight, flight, or freeze. Someone becomes angry and they take an aggressive stance. Someone becomes frightened and they run away. Someone becomes horrified and they freeze. Lesser known as...
