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How To Protect Your Child During Relationship Conflict

Wed, Nov 30, 2022

It takes a lot of emotional maturity for parents to restrain themselves from using the children to “punish” the other person. But it can be done.

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Emotionally Intelligent Children; How Do You Raise Them?

Wed, Nov 16, 2022

Emotions are a very important component of the human personality and as such, emotional awareness and expression is very instrumental in developing a healthy mode of self expression.

Parents are very instrumental in shaping how a child functions emotionally. Remember they model after you in terms of how you respond to situations.

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Addicted to Toxic Love?

Thu, Sep 8, 2022

You ask the person why they stayed in such relationships and the answer will always be love. The kind of love that makes one abandon all reason and be willing to exist for another.

But is this really love?

So how do you know when it’s an addiction and not love?

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Considering Professional Psychologists in Nairobi

Wed, Jun 22, 2022

Here I am at the end of a busy week at work, and I am just thinking of the sessions I have had with my clients. One of the recurring themes I recognise in my clients’ lives, is the existence of relationships in their lives that are damaging them more than they are helping them. I am talking about relationships with spouses, friends and parents that are draining the life out of them.

And what is the problem?

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Toxic Parenting; What’s It All About?

Fri, Nov 5, 2021

Children of toxic parents often end up feeling selfish for needing a parent’s love and affection. This is because their parents have always used them to meet their own needs while neglecting the child’s needs. A bad day at work means a bad day for their children because they will take it out on them. A poor relationship with their spouse means that one or all of their children bear the brunt of it.

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Personal Responsibility in Relationships

Mon, Jun 21, 2021

Taking responsibility over our feelings, thoughts and actions is an important component of healthy relationships. It is important to understand what it looks like to take responsibility or to avoid responsibility, as it is not always an active or even conscious process for that matter if you have not been particularly keen or self-aware.

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Dealing With Emotional Vampires

Wed, May 26, 2021

Responding immediately is attractive because it’s very rare even though it seems so obvious. It’s so rare because most people procrastinate. In fact, you may need to upgrade systems, streamline, automate and change your whole manner of responding to people and tasks in order to provide an immediate response.

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