Healthy Love and Money Blog

Being a trauma-informed couple is likely a new concept to you. Heck, I don’t think I have ever put these words together like this before writing this blog.

If you have been spending any time...

There are many potential reasons that couples attend couples counseling or coaching. Sometimes couples go in order to stop conflict and learn better skills to hopefully avoid divorce. Other times...

Do you feel that your partner's habits with money are irrational?

This is all too common in intimate relationships. Especially when two partners have different spending styles like when one is a...

One of the number one issues I see in couples is the spender-saver dynamic. 

The spender-saver dynamic is when one member of the couple wants to save most of their money whereas the other...

Welcome to 2022. 

As we embark on this next year’s important to see that who we are this year is created through everything that occurred in the years prior. 

We are all living an...

Self-worth can be based on a variety of things. Some people base their self-worth on their achievements, others on their physical appearance and others on their moral or ethical standards. There is...

Debt isn't isolated to only certain people. It's something that plagues people from all social and cultural backgrounds. It's something that almost everyone in our society has struggled with at...

Defense mechanisms are the way that we try to psychologically protect ourselves from things that seem overwhelming or threatening. 

This can be anything from being confronted with a big loss,...