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A Better Life Therapy
Helping you have a better relationship with yourself and others
Reflection Exercise for Couples
Reflection Exercise for Couples

Rather than New Years resolutions, we encourage past year reflections. Use the month of January to consider the triumphs and tribulations you have experienced as a couple over the past year.

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Connection, Couples/Marriage, Emma CarpenterElizabeth EarnshawJanuary 18, 2019A Better Life Therapy, LLCcouples, philadelphia, relationships
Ask the Expert: Video Games & Relationships
Ask the Expert: Video Games & Relationships

True or False...Video games are healthy for relationships. I respect any reaction that comes to your mind, as I know we all have our unique experiences & biases on the matter.

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Couples/Marriage, DatingElizabeth EarnshawJanuary 18, 2019A Better Life Therapy, LLCAsktheexpert, couples, Marriage, relationships
Ask the Expert: Relationships & Grief
Ask the Expert: Relationships & Grief

Suffering a significant loss can often feel like the rug was pulled out from under you, scrambling to find a way to relate to the same world you’ve been living in for decades under wholly new terms.

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Couples/Marriage, GriefElizabeth EarnshawJanuary 15, 2019A Better Life Therapy, LLCgrief, loss, relationships
Dear Hurting Couple
Dear Hurting Couple

If your trust has been broken here is what you need: The one that broke the trust needs to listen. Again and again. To show empathy. To say you understand, full heartedly, the impact of your actions.

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Conflict, Connection, Couples/Marriage, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth EarnshawElizabeth EarnshawDecember 18, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Validation
Validation

Validation is telling someone that you believe that what they say is true for them. Validation isn't needed to CREATE legitimacy, because the legitimacy os already there.

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Connection, Couples/Marriage, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, Family, Mindfulness, Parenting, Premarital, UncategorizedElizabeth EarnshawDecember 10, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Threat Maintenance vs Nurture Maintenance
Threat Maintenance vs Nurture Maintenance

Research has shown that people are motivated by 2 things:

  1. Threat

  2. Nurturing

While ALL couples will be motivated by both of theses factors, being motivated only by threats is not healthy for your relationship.

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Connection, Couples/Marriage, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, PremaritalElizabeth EarnshawDecember 10, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Ask The Expert: Unscripted Relationships
Ask The Expert: Unscripted Relationships

Happy Friday, Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT My name is Dr. S. Kay Webb and I am the creator of Unscripted Relationships. In Western culture, we are embedded in cultural scripts that tell us how to perform romantic relationships.

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UncategorizedElizabeth EarnshawDecember 7, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Relationship Builder: Learning to Listen
Relationship Builder: Learning to Listen

Consider this statement. It is simple, yet powerful. In fact, it describes most people. We are egocentric beings - we live within our own minds and it can be challenging to step out of our own experience and our own urge to respond in order to actually hear.

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Connection, Couples/MarriageElizabeth EarnshawDecember 7, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Setting Boundaries in Relationships
Setting Boundaries in Relationships

Setting boundaries early in your relationships sets the stage for a partner that knows how to be successful for you. No one knows what you want or need unless you say it.

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Couples/Marriage, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, PremaritalElizabeth EarnshawDecember 5, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Ghosting: New Name For An Old Thing
Ghosting: New Name For An Old Thing

"Ghosting" is when someone you're dating cut off the relationship by cutting off all communication without any explanation. This post isn't geared towards being ignored after a first or second date.

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Anxiety, Conflict, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, End of RelationshipElizabeth EarnshawDecember 5, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Trust and Commitment: The Pillars of a Healthy Relationship
Trust and Commitment: The Pillars of a Healthy Relationship

If you imagine your relationship as a house then trust and commitment are the walls keeping everyone warm inside and holding up the roof. Without them a relationship will not make it because it will not have a home.

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Couples/Marriage, Elizabeth EarnshawElizabeth EarnshawNovember 28, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Learn to Repair
Learn to Repair

Conflict is bound to happen in your relationships - if it doesn’t then you’re a unicorn and I’d love to hear from you. The way that you “kiss and makeup” afterwards determines whether the conflict deepens your connection and intimacy or creates resentment and unhealed wounds.

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Conflict, Connection, Couples/Marriage, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, PremaritalElizabeth EarnshawNovember 26, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Self Compassion
Self Compassion

Are you being hard on yourself right now? Critical? I want you to read this and take it in: You are a human being. You will not and can not always prevent shortcomings, failures, and mistakes.

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Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, MindfulnessElizabeth EarnshawNovember 26, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Small Things Often
Small Things Often

“Small things often” is the mantra that happy and healthy couples abide by. They realize that it isn’t the big vacation, the big ring, or the surprise party that maintains a happy and healthy relationship.

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Connection, Couples/Marriage, Dating, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, PremaritalElizabeth EarnshawNovember 19, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
The Impact of Gratitude on Your Relationship
The Impact of Gratitude on Your Relationship

In studying relationships and the science of happiness, one of the quickest, easiest ways I’ve found to infuse a partnership with joy is encouraging the practice of gratitude.

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Couples/MarriageElizabeth EarnshawNovember 16, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Being Guilted
Being Guilted

“Being guilted” is a different thing with the same emotional and physical responses. It’s more akin to shame.

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Conflict, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, Emotions, GuiltElizabeth EarnshawNovember 14, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Healthy Guilt
Healthy Guilt

“But, I don’t want them to feel guilty” This is a phrase I hear over and over again in my office after someone has been deeply hurt or impacted by their partner’s behavior. There is deep pain associated with allowing someone to feel guilt or remorse about hurtful treatment of us.

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Elizabeth, Elizabeth Earnshaw, Emotions, GuiltElizabeth EarnshawNovember 13, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLC
Ask the Expert: The Art of Dating
Ask the Expert: The Art of Dating

My business is called the Art of Dating because relationship success is a combination of art and science. The science is the research backed elements driving relationship success.

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Couples/Marriage, DatingElizabeth EarnshawNovember 11, 2018A Better Life Therapy, LLCartofdating, askthexpert, dating
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