Revive Health & Wellness Blog
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Supporting Women in Navigating Love, Identity, and Well-Being
Therapy is just one part of the journey—real growth happens in the moments in between. Our blog is here to support you with insights, practical tips, and reflections to help you navigate life, deepen self-awareness, and continue learning beyond the therapy room.
How to Use Criticism to Your Benefit
Do you get defensive when your spouse speaks? Do you wonder if you’re being too critical in your relationships? Criticism is absolutely INEVITABLE in relationships - whether married or not. It is born from a normal, natural drive that lives inside of all of us...
3 Tips to Beat Jealousy
It is normal to feel jealous from time time - most couples, and people for that matter, experience jealousy. Depending on your background and attachment style, you could have trouble taming jealousy when it creeps up. For this reason, we thought we’d share a few...
Couples Therapy for Separation
Today we want to clear up the myth that relationship therapy is ONLY for couples or individuals who want to have happier and more fulfilling love lives. That is, of course, many clients’ goal and we are here to help you understand yourselves and your...
5 Tips to Generate Kindness
We have been thinking a lot lately about how easy it is to take your partner for granted, especially the longer you are together. All too often, Revive works with couples where one or both partners have fallen into a terrible rut - one where...
Revive's Toolkit: Strategy for Better Understanding
In this short video, Amanda describes a way to increase understanding in your relationship by exploring the families you both come from. Check it out to learn one strategy to be more compassionate toward your partner!
Revive's Toolkit: Help Your Partner Listen To You!
If you have been feeling like your partner doesn't hear you, this communication tip will help you to get through to them! Check out this video to learn a simple way to get through to your partner so that he or she is more willing.
Revive's Toolkit: How To Be Successful in Couples Therapy
Are you wondering what you will get out of couples therapy? Many things, provided you're willing to put the work in! Here, Amanda describes two tradeoffs you must make to benefit from couples therapy.
Revive's Toolkit: Using Words of Affirmation
In this video, Amanda will describe 3 ways to show your partner love, if he or she is particularly fond of you expressing this verbally. Words of affirmation is a very important love language! Learn how to express love this way.
Revive's Toolkit: A Grounding Technique to Reduce Anxiety
Do you need to feel grounded during the day when you feel overwhelmed with stress? This grounding technique will teach you how to calm down and reduce anxiety in under 10 minutes.
Reduce Anxiety In Under 10 Minutes!
We are all so busy! In this video, Amanda describes a simple way you can connect to your partner by just taking 2-3 minutes out of your day. Hint: it involves a hug!
Doing This Could Lead to Divorce
We all want successful relationships! There are very easy steps to begin to communicate in ways that will increase your chances of staying together. One way is to avoid research proven things that destroy relationships. Studies have shown that the the single best predictor of...
3 Ways to Stay Connected When Life is Busy
Lately we’ve been thinking about how to stay connected a lot, because summers are SO, SO BUSY! i’ve also been talking with clients about how to prioritize their relationship when for 3-4 months, it can feel like all you do is run around, work, and...
3 Tips for Getting Your Partner to Listen to You
During stressful conversations, communication in relationships can go one of two ways. It can escalate both partners, meaning both people’s feelings become more and more negative, the stress response increases, hearts beat faster, arguing ensues...OR, it can de-escalate, meaning that certain attempts to keep things...
Dealing with Anxiety During a Busy Day
A lot of people say they simply don’t have time to slow down or deal with overwhelming thoughts throughout the day. There is just too much to do - too many calls to make, work problems to troubleshoot, lists of personal tasks, kids to take...
Guide to a Healthy Breakup
There are so many clients who come to us looking for guidance and help getting through one of the most difficult losses in life - divorce or breakup from a long term relationship. It truly is devastating - you put so much energy, time, and...
Did You Get Married To Be Happy?
Recently I’ve come across several articles that have aimed to describe the point of marriage. Why do we get married? What do we get out of it? Do we expect too much? Do our expectations need to be altered so that we are viewing the...
Do You Need To Spice Up Your Sex Life?
Many, many couples come to therapy in need of a spicier sex life. Some, in fact, never even bring this up in therapy but the word "intimacy" is tossed around a lot. It's not uncommon for people to feel strange or awkward about talking about...
Tips for Managing Anger in Your Relationship
I’ve been talking about anger with a lot of clients lately and I got to thinking, there should be a blog post about this! This post is for you if you experience anger on a very regular basis and aren’t sure what to do with...
How to Tell If You're Clinically Depressed
"Depressed" is a term that can be overused and misconstrued. And to be honest, many people really aren't sure what it means. And like most things, it's not always black and white! In therapy, we use very specific diagnostic criteria to properly diagnose clients based...
Do You Feel Helpless In Your Relationship?
Many men and women who are in long term relationships find themselves feeling helpless at SOME point. If you are feeling this way now, this blog piece is for you - hopefully to help you feel less hopeless, less powerless, and like you have some...