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Five (5) Benefits Of Knowing Your Partner’s Love Language


Knowing your partner’s love language can give you a great advantage in communicating and expressing your love to them. When you know someone’s love language, then you can love them in a way that resonates with them. This make them feel seen, heard, understood and most importantly, it makes them feel loved. When your partner feels loved and fulfilled, they will go the extra mile to ensure that you too feel the same.

Five (5) Things People In Your Life Should Know About Working With Adult ADHD /ADD


It’s important for you to know how to work with your Adult ADHD / ADD but it it also important for others around you to know this as well. As the expert on you, then the responsibility falls on you to make sure that you let them know the best ways to work with your ADHD / ADD

Five (5) Things People Need When Healing From Infidelity


After infidelity, your partner needs time to heal. There are some things that you can do to help facilitate the healing process for them.

Five (5) ADHD /ADD Holiday Self-Care Tips


Managing ADHD / ADD during the holidays adds new sets of challenges, as the holidays bring new commitments that need to be added to your carefully crafted Schedule Plan Organization System. The free flow of holiday festivities don’t have to be in contrast with the structure needed to manage your ADD / ADHD. With some deliberate planning you can find ways fit the holidays into your existing structure so that you can enjoy the season without undoing the work you have been doing through the year. These self-care tips can help with that.

Five (5) Ways Side Jobs (Taking On Additional Responsibilities) Can Impact Your Relationship


Second jobs, side hustles or any new commitment can have an impact on your relationship. Prior to committing to to engagements and responsibilities in addition to your existing work day it is important consider how your relationship will be impacted.

Five (5) Tips To Help Keep Depression (Other Mental Illness Too) Symptoms Managed


Managing depression is a life long struggle for many. Even when symptoms are not active people who suffer from chronic depression often live with the possibility of symptoms returning. Even is you are not able to complete rid your life of depression, there are some steps that you can take to help manage the symptoms and reduce the chances of a crisis.

Five (5) Things To Remember About Communication


Knowing when and how you communicate and what you are communicating can make or break your relationship. Keeping in mind some basic rules about communication can help couples be better communicators. Remember that much of communication is non-verbal and that what you do or don’t do can communicate a lot more than you intended to share.

Five (5) Tips For Helping Your Partner Communicate With You


Communication is unique between any two people. This is why it is important that couples learn to communicate in a way that meets their partner’s communication needs. This is even more important when at least one of them is not a very strong communicator.

Five (5) Tips For Making Your Therapy Productive


Five (5) Tips For Dealing With Poor Communicators


Five (5) Tips For Dealing With Ongoing [Long-Term] Infidelity



Infidelity is often thought of in terms of brief encounters, but there are instances where infidelity last several months and even years. These situations involving ongoing outside relationships come with a different set of complications than what is experienced with everyday infidelity. It is important for people in those situations to take time to address the situation as well as the emotions and complications that come with them.

Five (5) Tips For Helping People With ADHD / ADD Make Changes



People with ADD or ADHD work very hard to make behavior changes that can help them thrive. Unfortunately their efforts come with many struggles. People in their lives, loved ones and others around them can do some simple things to help support and encourage their work and progress. At home or in the workplace simple gestures go a long way.

Five (5) Ways Secrets Impact Your Relationship



Even when kept with the “best intentions” secrets can pause a threat to a relationship. Secrets can cause damage and hurt that may not be repairable. The secrets kept in a relationship, can say a lot about the couple, their views of each other as well as the strength of their relationship.

Five (5) Things People With ADHD / ADD Need You To Know



Sometimes knowing makes all the difference. There are some things that people do when interacting with people with ADHD / ADD that do not have the intended results. There are a few small things that if kept in mind can greatly help improve the efficiency of interacting with people with ADHD / ADD.

Five (5) Don’ts For Helping A Friend After Infidelity



After infidelity, not all “help” is helpful. There are things that one can do in an effort to help that can make things worse. Supporting a friend after infidelity means doing the things that they need you to do- not the things you want to do or think should be done. Remember that it is about them and what they need to help them heal and move forward from this point. If you find that you are unable to be the support they need, it is best to say that to the person and give them a chance to get that support elsewhere instead of having you occupying the space where someone who can be supportive should be.

Five (5) Resources To Get Free Therapy



Many people with mental health issues don’t get the help they need because of finances. There are many resources that can help people get free or affordable therapy to address many issues. Many of these resources are underutilized because people are not aware of them. In order to manage any mental health condition, it is important that proper and consistent treat is available. By utilizing the resources available to them people can address issues when they are first presented, which can be the difference between someone experiencing / managing depression and having suicidal thoughts or event attempting suicide.

Five (5) Dos For Helping A Friend After Infidelity



People dealing with infidelity need the help and support of loved ones. Because they are in such a delicate state, it is important to be conscious of providing the help that they need and not be pushing your own agenda which can in some cases be counter to the help they need. After an affair a person has some decisions that they need to make and they need the space to make the best decision for them. To overcome infidelity, people need the freedom to do what they need to heal and begin to trust again.

Five (5) Tips For Making ADHD/ADD Easier On Yourself


Dealing with ADD/ADHD is difficult on its own, but there are some things that people do that add to the difficulty. It is important to understand that as great as your scheduling and organization is, if you allow others to continuously interrupt and disturb at their leisure it can appear that your system is not working. In order to fully take advantage of all that you do to manage ADHD symptoms, those you interact with must also be put on the plan when it comes to dealing with you. Creating an environment that supports your ADD treatment is also important, but the most valuable thing that many people with add/ADHD need to do is to stop beating themselves up. Be kind to yourself. Understand that living with ADHD is something you will continue to work on. As you develop and master more coping skills things will continue to improve, but if you stumble along the way, you don’t need to beat yourself up for that.

Five (5) Things To Do Before Trial Separations


Trial separations do not provide enough of an opportunity to work on your relationship, nor an accurate picture of a true end of a marriage. Instead of a trial separations, couples should create opportunities to work on their relationship while they are together. In order to truly be able to assess their options. Instead of seeing how life could be apart, couples who want to repair their marriage need to employ more proactive actions such as participating in marriage counseling, improving communication skills and addressing the core issues in their relationship if their goal is to prevent divorce.

Five (5) Common Mistakes People With Mental Illness Make


People respond differently to mental illness. They employ many tactics to help them cope but sometimes the method is counter to its intent. Things such as isolation, and identifying the diagnosis are some of the mistakes that people make in dealing with the stress of mental illness. One of the most common mistakes is discontinuing treatment because they mistake having the symptoms managed for being cured.