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Kristina Von Rosenvinge - EzineArticles.com Expert Author   RSS

Kristina von Rosenvinge teaches self-growth and relationship skills for business and personal success.  She is an expert at helping people increase their self mastery. Kristina offers interactive telseminars on strengthening emotional fitness with the benefit of being happier. She is also available for  individual coaching.

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  • Going Through Menopause and Facing the Second Half of Life
    [Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Around fifty women are faced with the dual impact of going through menopause and also realizing that they are now well into their second half of life. This article deals with how to cope with the emotional symptoms that can be handled with life style changes.


  • Menopause Increases Relationship Conflict
    [Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Many women who are going through menopause find themselves questioning their relationships. They are clearer as to what they want for themselves and what they expect from their partner. This becomes a time of redefining relationships and incorporating the needs of both people in a new way.


  • Self-Improvement - Do You Find Yourself Silently Judging Yourself?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] We all talk to ourselves. What we say to ourselves becomes our mindset. This article talks about the limitations of a fixed mindset and the value of developing a growth mindset.


  • Self-Improvement - Develop Your Mindset For Success
    [Self-Improvement:Success] Have you heard that mindset is the new psychology of success? By developing a growth mindset we can successfully be in charge of our lives regardless of our age.


  • A Growth Mindset Leads to Life Long Learning
    [Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] Did you know that you can keep learning new things throughout your life? We now know that the brain is pliable and needs to be stretched in order to keep revitalizing itself. We can change from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset if we have a reason for doing so.


  • Self-Improvement - Develop a Growth Mindset
    [Self-Improvement:Mind-Development] A growth mindset can be developed through out life. This is especially welcome news to people fifty and beyond because so many of their habits have become ingrained and routine. Since I am in this group I know that our beliefs and habits will limit us unless we live by a growth mindset.


  • Relationships - Your Mindset Can Resist Change
    [Relationships:Communication] Change in a relationship requires a mindset shift. Read this article and see how easily positive steps can be jeopardized.


  • Self-Improvement - Stop Fixing Others by Applying a Leadership Mindset
    [Self-Improvement:Leadership] A personal leadership mindset is very freeing. You realize that you are in charge of yourself and not a victim of your upbringing and circumstances. The present is the only place where you can be. The past is a place you can learn from as you create the future.


  • Self-Improvement - Develop Your Leadership Mindset
    [Self-Improvement:Leadership] Do you have a leadership mindset? This article discusses how by taking charge to be leaders of our lives we can immensely enhance our lives.


  • Self Improvement Starts With Motivation
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] If you are like most people you periodically have the urge to undertake some form of self-improvement. This article talks about developing persistent motivation in order to be successful.


  • Relationships - Marriages of Choice Require Energy
    [Relationships:Marriage] When marriages were supposed to be forever, people did not feel that they had to put constant effort into it to maintain it. Now that marriage is a matter of choice relationships require attention in order to remain vibrant.


  • Self-Improvement - Goals Help Define Who We Are
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] What is your major reason for setting goals? This article discusses that the value of goals becomes 'what it makes of you' when you achieve it.


  • Self-Improvement - Good Daily Habits Increase Motivation
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] Self-Mastery comes from creating daily habits that pull you easily forward. This article will show how daily routines will keep you focused and on task.


  • Internal Conflict Can Propel Us Forward
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] A certain amount of conflict is good. It can be the key that propels us forward to take control of our lives. This article will explain how to use conflict to enhance your life.


  • Set the Right Goals and You Too Can Live Vibrantly After Fifty
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Are there wrong goal that can keep you from living vibrantly after fifty? By reading this article you will find out the answer.


  • Sunrise Yoga Makes the Day Shine
    [Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Have you ever done yoga outside when the sun is coming up? This article describes the benefits for body and mind of engaging in sunrise yoga.


  • Communication Frustration - You Are Not Listening!
    [Relationships:Communication] The ability to listen and really hear what is being said is vital in a caring relationship. Communication is a two way street involving giving information and receiving information. The ability to listen is a skill and all people can learn to grow their listening skills. Here are five tips sure to increase your ability to listen.


  • Does Living Together Increase Happiness in Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Between 60 to 70% of couples will live together before they get married. Find out if this increases their chances of happiness in marriage.


  • Are Your Habits Keeping You Stuck?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] We are all creatures of habits. Many habits make life easier, while others may hold back any progress we are trying to make. If you find that there are some things you want for yourself and just do not seem to achieve them it is time to play habit detective.


  • How to Age Successfully
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] Have you wondered how come some people seem to age well? This article will discuss what is in your control and give specifics for aging successfully.


  • Vibrant Relationships - Growing Your Marriage Into a Lasting Relationship
    [Relationships:Marriage] Growing your marriage into a lasting relationship involves learning to think in terms of WE. This article discusses five concepts to keep in mind that will enhance marriages.


  • Self-Improvement - Visionary Goal Setting in the Second Half of Life Brings Joy to Life
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Setting a goal to work towards energizes both body and mind. This article present seven tips to people in their second half of life on the value of creating a new vision for their life while enjoying the journey that gets them there.


  • Grandparents - What You Can Learn From Preschoolers When Going For a Walk
    [Home-and-Family:Grandparenting] Walking with preschoolers is a different kind of walk. Here are seven things that I learned about life when walking with my grandchildren.


  • Relationships - Affairs - Married Singles Ripe For Affairs
    [Relationships:Affairs] Couples can gradually grow apart and start living as "married singles". This article discusses how emotional disconnect makes one vulnerable for affairs.


  • Self-Improvement - Bring Forth Your Creativity in Your Second Half of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] Are you letting your creativity shine in your life? This article will help you reconnect with your natural creativity.


  • Relationship Communication - Practical Tips For Handling Yourself When Upset
    [Relationships:Communication] How do you get control back when you are worked up? This article gives you practical tips that will help you manage yourself when you are upset.


  • Relationship Communication - Tips For How to Deal With Difficult Family Members During the Holidays
    [Relationships:Communication] Do you dread the holidays because of the behavior of some of your family members? This article gives seven tips which will help you enjoy your holidays more.


  • Vibrant Relationships - Taking Care of Yourself Enhances Relationships
    [Relationships:Enhancement] This article gives useful tips for taking of yourself. The stresses and demands of daily living impact on self and relationships. These tips focus on re gaining control over ones own life.


  • Relationships - Affairs - What the Person Who is in an Affair Wants You to Believe
    [Relationships:Affairs] Gloria recently discovered that her husband of 31 years had been in an affair for a number of years. She felt betrayed, angry, and very scared. The most puzzling thing for her was that her husband was begging her not to end the marriage. Here are 5 myths to be aware of if you are person who has been betrayed.


  • Four Tips to Help You Soar in Your Second Half of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] These four tips are for men and women in their second half of life who want more in their lives. The tips are designed to help people begin to soar as they create meaningful lives for themselves.


  • Strengthen Your Marriage - How to Get Through Marital Burnout
    [Relationships:Marriage] Are you in a long-term marriage and worry how you will spend the next twenty years together? You have had careers, raised a family, have financially planned for retirement but feel emotionally disconnected from each other. There are specific steps that you can take which will help you rekindle your emotional connection and intimacy.


  • Relationships - Communication - Six Tips For Adults Who Still Feel Like Kids Around Their Parents
    [Relationships:Communication] Do you end up feeling like a child when dealing with your parents? These six tips will give you insight into parent adult child struggles and provide effective communication tools to improve the relationship.


  • Relationship Enhancement - How to Rekindle Your Relationship When the Fireworks Have Fizzled
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Have the fireworks fizzled? Apply these seven tips and you will rekindle your relationship. Remember when your heart simply soared at the sight of your lover? What has happened to those wonderful feelings?


  • Vibrant Relationships - How Selfishness Improves Relationships
    [Relationships] This article is for people who are so selfless that others take advantage of them. You will learn the difference between inappropriate selfishness and good selfishness and what makes for good relationships.


  • Relationship Tips - 7 Tips For Creating Vibrant Relationships
    [Relationships] Do you know how to rekindle the love you once felt when it starts to fade? Read to discover the seven tips that are the foundation for a vibrant relationship.


  • Vibrant Relationships - 7 Tips For Improving Communication in Relationships
    [Relationships:Communication] "We don't communicate" is the most frequent reason given for unhappiness in a relationship. These 7 tips will help enhance communication in relationships.


  • Marital Relationships Grow With Regular Infusion of Energy
    [Relationships:Marriage] Marital relationships require a steady infusion of emotional energy in order to thrive. Most marriages are created by choice with the expectation that it provide happiness. This article discusses what to do in order to achieve this goal.


  • The Secret to Happiness After Fifty
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Is it possible to make the second half of life the best time of life? The answer is a resounding YES. Read this article and find out the secret to happiness after fifty.


  • Grandparenting - To Be Or Not to Be in the Delivery Room
    [Home-and-Family:Grandparenting] As the parent of one daughter and two sons I have had the profound joy of becoming the grandmother to six grandchildren. Each one of my children and their spouses had a girl first and then a boy. Yet all of them chose not to have anyone else present in the delivery room.


  • Self-Improvement - Are You Still Growing?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] When we stop growing life becomes much less interesting. It is our ability to grow emotionally and intellectually that adds zest to life. When we do not head this inner drive to grow our quality of life is diminished.


  • Enhance Your Relationship in Your Second Half of Life
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Have you felt that your relationship could benefit from being recharged? Most people have, especially by the time they are in their second half of life. This article gives gives specific tips for enhancing your relationship.


  • Doing the Grandparent Dance
    [Home-and-Family:Grandparenting] Being a grandparent involves doing a relationship dance both with your grandchildren and with their parents. This article will give you the steps to the dance so you can glide over the "floor" with ease.


  • The Quality of Your Life Determines the Quality of Your Relationships
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] The energy that you put into increasing the quality of your life will come back to you in the quality of the relationships that you have. By learning to empower yourself you will expect more from your relationships which in turn will increase the quality of the relationships.


  • Personal Growth is the Key to Strengthening Relationships
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Did you know that personal growth is the answer to strengthening relationships? When you read this article you will learn how this happens.


  • Relationships Can Enhance Or Stifle Communication
    [Relationships:Communication] Have you ever heard of systems thinking? It is a term that was first used in industry but is also applied to describe how human beings operate in groups. All systems consist of individual parts. For instance if we apply this to couples and families we can see that there is a predictable interplay to their interactions.


  • Self-Growth - How to Increase Your Self-Esteem
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Self-esteem is the ability to value oneself. We show that we value ourselves by treating ourselves with dignity, love, and reality. Unfortunately, many people did not grow up in homes and schools where self-esteem was nurtured and taught. Fortunately, as adults, they can learn tools and skills which will empower them and grow their self-esteem.


  • Communication Skill - How to Listen Better
    [Relationships:Communication] If you want to strengthen your relationships work on growing your listening skills. Here are seven tips which are sure to increase your ability to listen.


  • Communication Skills Enhance Relationship Satisfaction
    [Relationships:Communication] The most common explanation couples give when they seek help is that they do not communicate. What they mean is that each no longer feels heard and understood by the other. This article gives five communication skills which enhance relationship satisfaction.


  • Did You Know That by Taking Action You Create Energy For Self-Growth?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] It is one of the paradoxes of life that we can actually create energy by taking action. This article discusses the benefits of taking action to improve the quality of life.


  • Relationship Enhancement Skills For Baby Boomers in Long Term Relationships
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Emotionally healthy people keep evolving throughout their life. That is just how we people are made. When we respect our inner need to grow we stay vibrant and engaged with life. In a long-term relationship the issue is how to make sure that the relationship can incorporate the need for individual growth and, at the same time, the couple can grow together. By accepting that it is normal to evolve as an individual it is equally important to realize that if the couple is to stay happily together they have to incorporate these changes successfully into their relationship.


  • The Scoop on Grandmothers
    [Home-and-Family:Grandparenting] Being a grandmother in the 21st century is different from the generations before. This article discusses the superb contributions by 27 writers as they write about grappling with their new role of being grandmothers. Barbara Graham has compiled these diverse stories into the memorable book "Eye of my Heart".


  • Effective Relationship Enhancer - Upgrade Who You Are
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Upgrade who you are and your relationships change. The work you do to strengthen your emotional fitness has a direct impact on your relationships. If you want your relationship to change work on empowering yourself.


  • Relationships - Domestic Violence - What We Can Learn From Rihanna and Chris Brown
    [Relationships:Domestic-Violence] When Chris Brown assaulted Rihanna (both pop music stars) domestic violence became big news again. The news part is good because domestic violence occurs in all socioeconomic groups and is a continuing big problem in our society. We can learn a lot from the tragic story of Rihanna and Chris Brown.


  • Enhance Your Relationship - Rekindle Closeness After the Fireworks Have Fizzled
    [Relationships:Enhancement] After the fireworks have fizzled relationships need to shift to create closeness that is emotional, physical, and based on being friends. In this article you will find seven tips for creating closeness.


  • Relationship Booster - Growing Together in These Challenging Times
    [Relationships:Enhancement] How is it possible that challenging times can strengthen relationships? It is true because people when they are faced with external pressures become much more aware of what truly matters to them. They focus on finding solutions that take into consideration what is in the best interest of the family.


  • Marriage Relationships - Learning to Shift Thinking Makes Change Possible
    [Relationships:Marriage] When a relationship is hurting having a new way of understanding the problems can be very freeing.  This article shows how a young couple made shifts that helped them rekindle their relationship.


  • Relationship Enhancement - Learn How Small Strategic Shifts Make a Big Difference in Relationships
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Have you noticed how freeing it is to look at things from a new perspective? This article show that by making small strategic shifts in thinking the benefit is peace of mind and greater willingness to take positive action.


  • Relationships Enhancement - The Most Common Mistakes People Make in Relationships
    [Relationships:Enhancement] The desire to be in a caring relationship seems to be universal. Couples start out with great hopes of living happily ever after. Sadly for many it does not work out that way.


  • A Health and Fitness Issue For Women - Being Too Nice at Own Expense
    [Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Recently I spoke with a woman I will call Carol who had been married over 40 years and was seriously thinking of leaving her husband. She intimated that she was tired of always worrying about him and letting him be the decider. The interesting thing is that this woman was a real leader at work and highly regarded for her competence. Yet at home she deferred and took on a secondary role.


  • Relationship Enhancement - How to Rekindle Your Relationship When You Have Grown Apart
    [Relationships:Enhancement] How do you reconnect with the person you used to be crazily in love with?  The daily stresses of careers, financial worries, raising a family and daily commitments leave little time for relationships.  This article gives tips on how to regain the emotional connection you so cherished.


  • Self Improvement - How to Be in Control in These Uncertain Times
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Having an inner sense of being in control is vital for building self confidence and tackling life tasks. In these uncertain economic times it is the strength of our coping skills that help us get successfully through these challenging times.


  • Self-Improvement - Enhance Your Inner Communication Skills and Feel Empowered
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] This article focuses on the communication that goes on inside us.  We all carry on inner dialogues within our minds.  This inner dialogue can enhance us or limit us depending on what we say to ourselves.


  • Self -Improvement - Take Care of the Little Things That Bother You
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] All of us have things that we are putting up with in our lives. By taking care of little unfinished items we free up energy for working on bigger goals.


  • Self-Help Books - What Place Do They Have in Your Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] Self help literature is big business. It has become a lucrative business because there are so many people searching for answers to their personal concerns. Despite there being so many books and programs touting ways of finding true happiness and achieving ones potential statistics show that as a nation we are not all that happy or feeling fulfilled.


  • Personal Growth Happens When You Leave Your Comfort Zone
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] What makes it so hard to leave our comfort zone?  We do the same things over and over even though we know it keeps us in the same place.  This article discusses why we stay stuck and gives suggestions on how to move out of our comfort zone.


  • Self-Improvement - How to Increase Your Sense of Inner Worth
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Outward success does not equal inner worth. This article gives tips on how to increase self esteem throughout ones life.


  • Self-Improvement Thoughts From Charles Darwin
    [Self-Improvement:Success] "A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life". This is a an interesting statement by Charles Darwin who was born 200 years ago on Feb. 12, 1809. This article looks at how we can apply this quote to our own lives.


  • Emotional Benefits of Pilates and Yoga
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] When I committed myself to two pilates and one yoga class a week I did it as part of my goal to be healthier. What has pleased me greatly is the emotional benefits that I have received from these two forms of exercise.


  • Self-Improvement - Good Self-Care Helps Greatly in Tough Economic Times
    [Self-Improvement] Tough economic times create much anxiety and worry. This article gives seven tips for how to take good care of your self when the external concerns feel overwhelming.


  • Relationship Stress - Tough Economic Times Hard on Couples
    [Relationships:Enhancement] The battered economy is putting major stress on the emotional coping skills of couples. This article gives concrete suggestions on how to strengthen the ability to survive and grow together through these economically tough times.


  • Relationship Dilemma - You Are Content, I Am Not
    [Relationships:Conflict] Relationship dilemmas come up all the time. Some can be resolved easily while others can put much stress on a relationship. This article describes three scenarios where the needs of one person have a major effect on the relationship balance.


  • Self-Mastery - The Secret Ingredient to Strong Relationships
    [Relationships] How does self-mastery enhance relationships? This article discusses the effect the needs of one person can have on de-stabilizing a good relationship. It is through self-mastery by one person that the relationship can begin to be reclaimed.


  • Self Improvement - Benefits Of Learning Self-Mastery
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Self-Mastery - what does it really mean? To me it means that I am responsible for myself and the direction I want my life to take. I actually like the word mastery because it indicates that it takes time and effort to master something. The happiest people are those who realize that self-mastery is a life long process while enjoying the journey.


  • Self-Mastery is the Key to Succeeding in Life
    [Self-Improvement:Empowerment] Did you know that you can enhance your happiness by increasing the level of how you take care of yourself? By learning successful skills to handle emotions and social interactions you will empower yourself and your relationships.


  • Potential Relationship Crisis - One Person is Growing, the Other is Not
    [Relationships] When one person is evolving and making changes it affects the balance of the relationship. This article gives ideas on what to do if you find yourself in such a situation.


  • Grandparenting - Keeping Up With the Little Ones
    [Home-and-Family:Grandparenting] The energy level of pre-schoolers is boundless. In order to keep up with them we grandparents need to be energized to keep up with them. This article ideas on how to add energy to one's life.


  • Goal-Setting - Five Tips For Achieving Success
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Goal-setting is a New Year's phenomenon. More people start on some self-improvement task in the beginning of the new year than at any other time of year. This article gives 5 tips on how to achieve your goals.


  • Self-Improvement - Use Your Comfort Zone As a Spring Board For Growth
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] What you don't want to do is stay stuck in your comfort zone. Instead use it as your spring board for action to move yourself from a stagnant zone into a new comfort zone.


  • Can Increasing Self-Care Really Decrease Stress?
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Is it really true that self-caring can reduce stress? Read this article and learn how to lower your stress level by following seven specific tips.


  • Communication Struggles With Grown Children
    [Relationships:Communication] Communication with grown children is great when it works but can be very painful when it doesn't. This article discusses some of the pitfalls that keep children and parents stuck.


  • Self-Improvement - Step One - Start and Add a Second Step
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Many people dream about changing some aspect of their life but don't know how to get started. It seems easier to stay with the familiar rather than to venture forward. Ralph Waldo Emerson said "Many a man has taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first".


  • Self-Improvement - Are You Losing Yourself in Relationships?
    [Self-Improvement] Have you felt like you can't be yourself in some relationships? This article deals with this common problem and gives suggestions on how to reclaim yourself.


  • Relationship Booster - In Tough Times Focus on What Truly Matters
    [Relationships] What will help couples and families get through these tough financial times? This article discussed how strengthening relationships lays the foundation for clarifying what really matters and finding solutions.


  • Anger Management is the Key to Building Successful Relationships
    [Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Good relationships can be destroyed by one person's inability to deal with his/her anger. This article gives specific tips on how to manage self when feeling flooded with strong emotions.


  • Self Esteem - How Do You Talk to Yourself?
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] Increase your self-esteem by strengthening how you speak to yourself. We all carry on internal dialogues which can enhance or limit us depending on what we say to ourselves. This article gives five tips on how to strengthen your inner dialogue.


  • Self-Improvement - How to Make "The Secret" Work For You
    [Self-Improvement:Attraction] Self-Improvement is big business. It is amazing how many articles are written promising people quick answers to their life issues. Just yesterday I received an email saying that in 2 simple steps you can implement what "The Secret" did not tell you.


  • Emotional Fitness Tips For Enjoying Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Are you living your life or drudging through life? To live your life means that you have time to enjoy it. Here are 9 tips designed to help you get control so you can enjoy your life.


  • Emotional Fitness - Grow Out of Your Comfort Zone
    [Self-Improvement:Techniques] An important part of strengthening emotional fitness is a willingness to move out of ones comfort zone. It could be a desire to start a new business, go back to school, begin an exercise plan, put an end to abuse, or anything else that you want for yourself.


  • Emotional Fitness - Change Limiting Communication Patterns and Increase Your Self-Worth
    [Relationships:Communication] Communication is the greatest single factor which determines what kind of relationships we have with others. A sure way to increase self-worth and relationship satisfaction is to learn to change limiting communication patterns.


  • Strengthen Your Emotional Fitness and Create Joy For Living
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] Emotional Fitness is strengthening WHO you are as a person. In order to grow emotionally you may need to unlearn coping mechanisms that hold you back and learn more effective ways of dealing with life. Real success is living your life the way you want to while maintaining meaningful relationships.


  • Five Surefire Tips For Increasing Your Happiness Level
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] Did you know that you can increase your happiness level? There are definite steps that you can take which will actively engage you and lead to an increase in your contentment with life.


  • Self-Improvement - How to Let Go of the Stranglehold of Fear
    [Self-Improvement:Techniques] Do you feel that fear has gotten a stranglehold on you? In today's tumultuous economic climate there is a lot of uncertainty which creates fear. This article gives concrete suggestions on how to manage fear and find solutions.


  • Stress Management - How to Cope in Uncertain Times
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Uncertain economic times put an enormous stress on on our emotional coping abilities. Here are 10 practical tips for taking care of yourself.


  • Are You Letting Life Happen Or Are You Creating Your Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] There is an immense difference in letting life happen or creating you life. The difference is in the quality of enjoyment of life. This article gives specific suggestions on how to create a life consciously.


  • Stress Management - Coping Skills For Couples in Uncertain Times
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] The current financial crisis is placing a lot of stress on relationships. This article gives 10 tips which will help couples work together in this uncertain time.


  • Handling Stress - Helping Children Cope in Uncertain Times
    [Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] When grown-ups are stressed children know it.  These tips are useful ideas for parents to keep in mind as they help their children with the ramifications of the financial crisis on their own families.


  • Recharge Your Life As a Couple in Tough Economic Times
    [Relationships:Conflict] When times get tough economically couples are faced with having to reevaluate  their priorities. This articles provides tools for strengthening the couple relationship.


  • Recharge Your Life - How to Get Started
    [Self-Improvement] Why is it so hard to make changes in life? We certainly tend to think about it a lot. This article gives five tips on how to get started.


  • Submerge Syndrome Affects Women in Their Second Half of Life
    [Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Are you familiar with "Submerge Syndrome"? It seems to primarily affect women in their second half of life who are in relationships. Here are seven tips on how to cure this syndrome.


  • Relationship Conundrum - It Works For Me and Now You Want to Change Our Relationship
    [Relationships:Enhancement] When one person wants to introduce change into the relationship the equilibrium becomes out of balance.  This article gives five tips on how to introduce change successfully.


  • How to Create Positive Change in Relationships
    [Relationships:Enhancement] Relationships take on a predictable life of their own. This article gives seven practical tips for introducing positive change in order to recharge a relationship.


  • Recharge Your Marriage and Stop Feeling Like a Married Single
    [Relationships:Marriage] How do you rekindle a relationship when you feel like a married single?  This article will give tips on how to reestablish an emotionally connected relationship.


  • How to Renew Your Spirit and Increase Your Self-Esteem
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] If you desire to renew your spirit you will be intrigued by the ideas in this article. Here are three sure fire ideas that will renew your spirit.


  • 7 Practical Benefits of Letting Go of Having Life on the Hold Button
    [Self-Improvement:Coaching] People spend a lot of time not doing what they deep inside know they need to do. This article gives 7 practical benefits of letting go of the hold button by taking action.


  • 7 Good Reasons For Re-Charging Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Coaching] People in their second half of life want to feel that they are truly in charge of their lives. Here are seven good reasons for re-charging your life.


  • Self Improvement Techniques For Making Time For Yourself
    [Self-Improvement:Techniques] Moat people's lives are busy and stressful. This article presents techniques which will help you make time for recharging yourself.


  • How to Succeed in Managing Yourself When You Are Angry
    [Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Is there an effective way to manage yourself when angry? This article provides 3 rules that will help you manage yourself when you are flooded with strong emotions.


  • What is Your Attitude About the Second Half of Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] What is your attitude about the second half of life? This article describes how by developing three specific positive attitudes you can recharge your life, renew your life script, and take action to make this the best time of your life.


  • Relationships - The Secret to Creating Caring and Committed Relationships
    [Relationships:Commitment] We have become a "me" society and have lost sight of how to create a sense of shared purpose.  This article shares the secret ingredient to creating committed relationships.


  • Second Half of Life Issue - How to Take Charge of Your Life When You Have Been Co-Dependent
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] People who are co-dependent focus their energy on being there for other people. This article gives tips on how to refocus on self while still being there for others.


  • Tips For Managing Situational Depression in the Second Half of Life
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Many people are struggling with depression. This article focuses on the factors in life situations that can be changed resulting in a lifting of depression.


  • The 3 Biggest Barriers to Growing in the Second Half of Life
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] The three biggest barriers to growing in the second half of life make the difference between having a life of vibrancy or disenchantment. This article gives practical tips on how to remove the barriers and enjoy life.


  • Have You Ever Felt Stifled in What You Could Say in a Relationship?
    [Relationships:Communication] Two examples show how the relationship system affects communication. The article concludes by pointing out that communication is learned and can be changes at any age.


  • Did You Know That Your Boundaries Reflect Your Circle of Confidence?
    [Relationships] We all have imaginary boundaries which we use to let people into our lives or to keep them out. It is our level of confidence which determines how weak or strong our boundaries are.This article describes ways of increasing self-confidence and enlarging ones boundaries.


  • Did You Know That Strong Boundaries Come From Being Emotionally Fit?
    [Self-Improvement] Strong boundaries make dealing with others much easier. This article gives tips on how to strengthen ones emotional fitness. Our ability to establish good boundaries is in direct correlation with how we feel about ourselves.


  • Did You Know That the Key to Developing Strong Boundaries is to Love Who You Are?
    [Self-Improvement:Techniques] When boundaries, which are the imaginary circles around us, are too lose or too constricted we can not fully be ourselves. This article shows how by learning to trust ourselves we can develop boundaries which are just right for us.


  • Did You Know That by Strengthening Your Boundaries You Increase Your Self-Esteem?
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] How does strengthening your boundaries increase your over all well-being? Read this article and find out that by strengthening who you are you increase your self-esteem and your work and personal relationships.


  • Did You Know That Strong Boundaries Enhance Your Relationships?
    [Relationships] Boundaries are imaginary lines we draw around ourselves. This article shows how by establishing clear boundaries we strengthen who we are as individuals and enhance our relationships.


  • Are Your Beliefs Limiting You in Your Second Half of Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Inspirational] What we believe about ourselves either helps us grow or holds us back. Here are three common limiting beliefs in the second half of life with suggestions as to what to do to change them.


  • Relationships - Which of These 3 Relationship Beliefs Have You Bought Into?
    [Relationships] Are you aware that underlying beliefs can deeply influence how you act in your relationship/marriage? Here are three beliefs that limit relationships followed by three ideas as to what to do instead.


  • 5 Tips For Growing a Relationship After an Affair
    [Relationships:Affairs] Is it possible for a couple to get past an affair? Indeed some couples come through an affair and form a stronger bond. This article will give tips on what to do in order to survive an affair and grow from it.


  • Anger Management - 7 Top Reasons Why We Get Angry
    [Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] In order to manage our anger it is important to look at why we get angry. This article provides 7 common reasons why people get angry.


  • Relationship - Communication - Understanding What Happens Between People
    [Relationships:Communication] Communication is more than the individuals it is also what happens between them. This article will explain the power of the interactional system and how it can be changed.


  • Goal Setting After 50 - Three Myths That Will Keep You Stuck
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] Do your beliefs hold you back for going after what truly matters to you? This article dispels three myths and gives specific suggestions that will enhance the vibrancy of your life.


  • How to Change Stuck Communication Patterns in Relationships
    [Relationships:Communication] There is a reason why knowing communication tools may not bring about the desired changes. It may be necessary to change the interaction patterns fist before the communication tools can be effectively used. This article will help you understand the subtle patterns that can keep a relationship stuck.


  • Simple Solutions To A Communication Break-Down
    [Relationships:Communication] Have you noticed how the same patterns keep repeating themselves in your relationships? This article looks at the microcosm of one interaction and offers specific solutions.


  • Grow In Areas That Really Matter To You
    [Self-Improvement:Success] What does it mean to grow into being the kind of person you want to be? This article looks at the fact that most of us live our lives without fully unleashing who we are. Take inventory of five areas of your life as a springboard to action.


  • Self-Improvement - How to Keep Yourself From Withering
    [Self-Improvement] Too many people stop living vibrantly in their second half of life. This article gives ideas on how to keep yourself from withering.


  • Self Improvement - 7 Practical Tips For Taking Leadership Of Your Life
    [Self-Improvement:Leadership] What we all want is to feel in control of our own lives. It is through self-mastery that we experience self worth. Pursuing these seven tips will pull you forward and add vibrancy to your life.


  • Seven Tips Sure To Improve Couple Communication
    [Relationships:Communication] The most common complaint of couples is that "we don't communicate". Of course, they communicate but not in a way that they feel validated, heard, and understood. This article gives seven tips which are sure to improve couple communication.


  • Co-Dependent Relationships Burden Women
    [Relationships] Do you feel like you are no longer in control over yourself? You could have become co-dependent. This article discusses co-dependency as primarily a negative label placed on women.


  • Marriage Counseling - What Do I Do if My Spouse Refuses to Go for Help?
    [Relationships:Marriage] You both agree that your marriage is in trouble and you need outside help. What do you do if your spouse refuses to go for counseling. You can go by yourself. This article presents 7 steps for enhancing a relationship when only one person is ostensibly doing the work.


  • Business - Practical Tips For The Professional Who is Taking a Business Solo
    [Business:Solo-Professionals] The business plan is ready, the finances are worked out but you are not able to move forward. This article gives practical tips which will help you get unstuck and start creating your business.


  • Relationship Conflict - 7 Effective Tips For Dealing With Conflict
    [Relationships:Conflict] Nothing is as frustrating as two people feeling strongly about what they want and neither wanting to budge. These seven tips provide effective guidelines for dealing with conflict.


  • Relationships - Conflict - Practical Tips For Unlearning Mind Reading
    [Relationships:Conflict] Mind reading is destructive in relationships. It keeps people responding from the past and makes it hard to be open to change in the present. This article gives four helpful tips for unlearning mind reading.


  • Self - Improvement - 7 Tips On Cultivating A Positive Attitude
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Are you living your life or drudging through your life? This article presents 7 tips on cultivating a positive attitude which will help you feel in control of your life


  • Successful Retirement - 3 Common Mistakes To Avoid At Retirement
    [Home-and-Family:Retirement] This article discusses three common mistakes people make at retirement and presents ideas of what to do instead. The authors focuses on the need to discuss expectations and at the same time be open to letting retirement evolve.





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