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Happiness At Home Newsletter: You Can Build Your People Skills

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, friendship, happy families, marriage, newsletter, parenting, teens, tweens
How would you like to get along even better with others in your personal relationships and in the workplace? Getting along well with people sounds kind of general and is [...]
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Making Change Happen

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens
If you’ve ever resolved to be a “better” parent or partner (and who hasn’t?)  you may have felt a moment or two of frustration over your lack of [...]
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“Fighting Fair”?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, Pet Peeves, stress
All couples disagree at some point.  It’s not realistic to think that we’ll see eye-to-eye on everything over the course of a long marriage.  Disagreeing isn’t the issue; how [...]
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Is It Wrong To Ask For Help?

Andrea Ramsay Speers
bullying, communication, couples, depression, happy families, health, keeping kids out of trouble, marriage, mental health, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens
We live in a culture that values independence.  There’s a common belief that everyone can and should take care of themselves alone, pull themselves up by their bootstraps and [...]
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Most Of Us Hear, Not All Of Us Listen

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens
I use a lot of skills in my work as a psychotherapist in Oakville.  Some of these skills are ones that I teach my clients, too, and active listening is probably one of the [...]
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Being More Patient

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress
Most parents I’ve met would say that parenting has taught them to dig into reserves of patience they didn’t even know they had.  But they’d also probably admit that they could [...]
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Foiling a Manipulation Tactic

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, teens
Kids develop a finely tuned awareness of which parent to go to in specific circumstances.  Whether they’re looking for money, a ride to the mall, or permission to sleep [...]
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A Listening Experiment

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, parenting, Pet Peeves
Have you ever given much thought to how much talking you do? I try to be very aware of how much I talk — occupational hazard, I suppose — and I try to [...]
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How To Keep Your Marriage Strong

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage
It’s not uncommon that I meet with couples who have come to counselling, but are a little unsure if they should even be there, since they don’t fight, they don’t storm out on [...]
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Happiness At Home: Resolving Conflicts

Andrea Ramsay Speers
communication, couples, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens
Every relationship has conflicts. In some relationships, conflict is a serious problem; in others, differences seem to be resolved without creating a major incident. Think [...]
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Oakville Family Institute (Trafalgar and Dundas in north Oakville)
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