You, and/or, your spouse feeling stressed? Hold hands with your spouse. Yes, even if it’s your spouse causing the stress.
When our bodies feel stress the fight or flight response kicks in. Holding the hand of your spouse, or touching in a non-sexual way, reduces your stress level.
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I goofed!
Today I made a huge mistake – I deleted some files off our website that were really important. I desperately called the help desk to see if they could recover them and the very helpful support guy said, “I’m sorry, we don’t offer recovery for our clients except in catastrophic cases.” Well, to me it [...]
Does your spouse always seem to say the wrong thing?
Change your version of the script!
As children our parents modeled for us how to deal with relationships and love and anger and work and money and faith, etc. We have this mental map in of how things in our life are supposed to happen. I call it “Emotional Genealogy” or EG. As we grow up [...]
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