Richard’s Blog
Inspiring articles to help navigate everyday challenges
A Non-Dualist And Compassionate Approach To Healing Relationships
In his 1937 bestseller, Think and Grow Rich, American self-help author Napoleon Hill famously wrote, “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.” As the title and...
Seven Effective & Heartfelt Tips to Navigate the Pandemic and Relationships
2020 has been a challenging year for most of us personally and certainly as a collective society. Between COVID-19 and the global pandemic, stay-at-home-orders, social distancing requirements and homeschooling children, as well as racial and social unrest, the...
How To Improve Communication In Marriage
Using “I feel” statements to make rather than break your relationship Feelings are indicators about what interests and is important to us, and the expression of feelings is essential for establishing connection and creating intimacy in romantic partnerships. We...
How to “affair-proof” your relationship
First, a disclaimer: there’s no surefire way to guarantee that your relationship will never be impacted by an affair. On the other hand, in my years of practice helping couples deal with the strains of infidelity, I have observed several measures that will...
Anxiety 101
Anxiety is defined as a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something with an uncertain outcome. It is totally natural. When anxiety reaches a state of excessive uneasiness and apprehension, typically with compulsive...
How To Effectively Receive Difficult Feedback From Your Partner
It is very important to learn how to communicate your feedback, feelings or needs to your partner in an effective way that maximizes you being heard (coming soon in a future post). This post, however, focuses on the art of listening and receiving feedback. The...
Wondering How To Be Happy?
Let Go of Shame, Blame and Guilt for Good. Wondering how to be happy? If so, you’re not alone. Millions of Americans struggling with relationships, stress, depression, anxiety, anger and more are asking themselves the same question. As a psychotherapist since my...
Principles of non-duality
We usually think of ourselves and others to be independent entities possessing free will and the power to volitionally create our lives as we wish and choose. The non-dual spiritual perspective asserts that this sense of identity is completely illusory. It claims...
Beyond Forgiveness
In the course of your life there will be incidents where certain people will act in ways that are hurtful or injurious to you. Whether a single incident or repeated offenses, these upsetting actions can be experienced as so offensive that a powerful grievance...
Recovering from an Affair
The disclosure of an affair can be one of the most devastating events affecting a committed and intimate relationship. The faithful partner’s pain when faced with such betrayal and breach of trust is often too great for the relationship to survive. However, if the...
