Helping People Connect
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
Humans have the capacity to see the world through a whimsical lens or a weighty one. As a result, feelings usually ebb and flow. But sometimes… I can get stuck – I mean really, really stuck.
It’s a universal human experience and happens to everyone.
Stuck-ness creeps in without warning and… when it does…. it reigns supreme and colors everything.
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
Human beings want to be valued and admired but creating a relationship
with other people in mind is a bad idea.
If you want your relationship to make others green with envy…
Rule #1: Don’t do it!
Building a relationship intended to
• satisfy someone else,
• ‘show’ someone,
• out-do someone or
• impress someone
ensures distress and unhappiness.
Continue Reading How To Create a Relationship Everyone Will Envy!
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
People around me know how committed I am to keeping things simple. It’s not easy to do because things can get complicated really fast. Committed relationships can quickly become a tangled web of unhappiness when, really, they are remarkably simple and meant to bring us joy. Relationships teach us how to give and receive Love.
Continue Reading Caring Partners Know… Love is in The Simple Things
| By Anne Hancock, Psy.D.
In the fall of 1993, I was making a career transition from university fund-raiser to Marriage and Family Therapist when I saw my first client in a Los Angeles clinic. She was a beautiful, young, soft-spoken woman in despair over her relationship. While we sat together she explained how much she and her husband loved each other but for some reason, things were not going well. For nearly an hour, she shared her confusion and the drama of their life and then … I never saw her again. Ever. Today I think of her as an angel who inspired me to focus on working with couples.
