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Check out our new series, Surviving 2025, for blog posts specifically selected to help you better cope with the challenging twists and turns that this year has in store.
On Lily Allen & Opening Up Your Partnership
Lily Allen’s new album West End Girl has sparked fresh conversations about what it really takes to open a relationship with care. Consensual non-monogamy isn’t about pressure or freedom from responsibility—it’s about communication, honesty, and emotional steadiness. This piece explores the key questions couples should ask themselves before considering CNM, and how to navigate the complexities with intention.
On How to Talk About Your Feelings (Without Spontaneously Combusting)
Talking about your feelings isn’t weakness — it’s one of the bravest things you can do. Still, most of us were never taught how to do it without sounding dramatic, detached, or like we’re about to cry in a Trader Joe’s parking lot. This therapist-backed guide breaks down how to talk about your feelings with honesty, humor, and heart — so you can build stronger connections without losing your cool (or your mind) in the process.
On Essential Skills to Improve the Quality of Your Relationships
The quality of our relationships determines the quality of our lives. In fact, humans need quality, connected relationships to be healthy and have prolonged lives…Communication is only one of many important relationship skills, not THE most important relationship skill. I want to outline a number of other vital, relationship skills that often get overlooked when we’re primarily thinking that the key to successful relationships is communication. Read on for seven additional relationship skills to help you improve the quality of your relationships.
On “Am I Too Sensitive in My Relationships?”
One question we hear a lot is “Am I too sensitive in my relationship?”…We’ve often been told we’re too sensitive which leads to feeling ashamed, lots of self-judgment, and relationship insecurities. My hope is that this article will help you better understand the strengths and challenges of being sensitive in your relationships and provide some tips for how to manage the difficult moments when you’re feeling alllll the feels.
On It's Not Always Merry: Questions to Ask Your Partner When Visiting Family & Friends for the Holidays
In relationships, misalignment of communication styles, boundaries, and values leads to more disagreements, isolation, an uneven sharing of workload, feeling dismissed, and an overall lack of attunement to your partner(s.) Read on for essential questions from a Couple Therapist to ask your partner to help you navigate holiday celebrations and family visits while staying emotionally connected.
On the Importance of Community
We hear all the time how important community is, but why exactly is this true? Co-founder of Kindman & Co., Kaitlin Kindman, tackles this question with 5 reasons why community is essential for us as human beings. We know how hard it can be to reach for support and build community. Read on for some inspiring reasons why it’s worth it in the end!
On Things You Shouldn't Do in a Relationship & What to Do Instead
The world knows that communication is key for couples. It’s also very common for partners to seek couples or relationship therapy to specifically work on communication. So, we asked our therapists to share some common examples of bad communication, and what they would recommend in that situation instead.
On The Myth of "Too Much"
Caitlin speaks candidly about how “being too much” is a myth! She works primarily with folx who are socialized as female and present as female, and she can bank on the fact that at some point in their work together, clients will tell her that they have a fear of being “too much”. So, here’s why you are never too much.
On the Importance of Validating Others’ Emotions & How to Start
When we practice validation, we’re letting someone know that their internal experience and feelings are understandable and we’re communicating that they are okay to feel. By validating someone else’s experience you’re not invalidating your own--two people can be having different experiences and they’re both completely valid. Here’s 3 steps on how to validate others’ feelings.