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You Can Have Excellent Listening Skills!

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, encouragement, marriage, nagging, newsletter, parenting, stress, teens, tweens

Any psychotherapist will tell you that one of the biggest problems they see among their clients is poor listening skills. People get into trouble in their relationships [...]

Happiness At Home: How To Stop Procrastinating

Andrea Ramsay Speers

mental health, newsletter, stress

This is the second of a series of two newsletters that explore the dynamics of procrastination. In my last newsletter, you learned what procrastination is and why people do [...]

Happiness At Home Newsletter: What Makes Us Procrastinate?

Andrea Ramsay Speers

depression, encouragement, mental health, nagging, newsletter, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

All of us procrastinate on occasion. For some people, it’s a chronic problem; for others, it’s only a problem in certain life areas. Procrastination is always frustrating [...]

Relationship Checkup

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage, newsletter, stress

Most adults engage in long-term relationships, including marriage and other committed partnerships. Nearly everyone experiences difficulties in their marriage or committed [...]

A Few Of My Favourite Books

Andrea Ramsay Speers

announcements, anxiety, bullying, chores, communication, couples, depression, encouragement, entitlement, friendship, happy families, marriage, mental health, nagging, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

Looking for something to keep you busy over the next few weeks? Books can be a great way to get information, get inspiration and new ideas, and to keep momentum going between [...]

7 Habits Of Highly Effective Communicators

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens

Many of us take our communication style for granted. We just say what we’re thinking. We might assume that what we’re thinking is “common sense.” Maybe we don’t give much [...]

Happiness At Home: Recovering From An Affair

Andrea Ramsay Speers

couples, marriage, newsletter, stress

Forms of Infidelity Infidelity takes many forms. Some people have sequential affairs—a series of one-night stands or short affairs. These affairs involve very little emotional [...]

10 Habits Of Happy Couples

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage

Ok, this was just such a great article, I had to share it! It was written by Mark Goulston on the Psychology Today blog. It’s fantastic. 10 Habits of Happy Couples [...]

When Parents Disagree About Parenting

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, marriage, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, stress, teens, tweens

Who knew that parenting could be so hard on your marriage?? When we meet someone and children aren’t even on our radars, we don’t really know that our parenting styles might [...]

Problem Solving

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, happy families, nagging, parenting, Pet Peeves, school, teens, tweens

Good communication is important in a family, but we can get stuck when we’ve shared what our issues are, and the person we’re sharing with has a different view. [...]