Emotional Regulation
Rick offers suggestions for managing anger and resolving conflict within relationships. Learn how to have rational versus emotional conversations and how to control the flow of emotions.
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Why Couples Fail After an Affair | Part 1 - Not Knowing What Happened
Affair Recovery Timeline for Healing After Betrayal
Pimping Tenderness & Grooming Behaviors
How Could You? Part I: Why We Commit Betrayal With Infidelity
Healing After an Affair: How do I Address Unmanageability?
644 Resources
Type Title Posted
Text Discovery: Why Do I Want to Know? 6/14/2023
Text Discovery: Processing the Details of the Affair 6/07/2023
Text Coping with Infidelity: The 2 Stages of Pain 5/31/2023
Text How to Get Your Mate to Cooperate (Without Being Controlling) 5/24/2023
Video Q&A Is My Mate’s Inability to Experience Emotions Due to Deep Trauma or Something More Problematic? 5/02/2023
Video Q&A How Do We Handle Workplace Triggers in Recovery? 4/12/2023
Video Q&A How Do You Discern If a Person Is Truly Remorseful and Changing When They Relapse into Blaming the Betrayed? 4/12/2023
Video Q&A Is My Lack of Emotion Normal or Am I Experiencing Something Much Worse? 3/17/2023
Video Q&A How Do Social Engagement and Our Nervous Systems Work Together? 3/02/2023
Video Q&A What Is a Realistic Timeline for My Own Recovery with C-PTSD and Childhood Trauma and Being Able to Answer Every Specifically Detailed ‘Why'? 1/11/2023
Text Untransformed Pain will be Transmitted 12/07/2022
Video Q&A Do I Keep It to Myself When I Get Triggered? 12/06/2022
Video Q&A How Can We Get Anywhere If a Calm Conversation Can’t Happen about His Recovery or Betrayals? 12/06/2022
Video Q&A How Important Is It to Interrupt Intrusive Thoughts within 3 Seconds? 12/06/2022
Text Anger: Its 6 Roots 9/28/2022
Text Intrusive Thoughts After the Affair: How to Manage Flooding 8/17/2022
Text Surviving Infidelity: What Do We Tell the Kids? 8/10/2022
Video Q&A Is This a Healthy Way to Process My Anger? 8/03/2022
Video How Does My Spouse Escape the Neurochemical Process of Limerence? 6/22/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Respond to the Betrayed’s Triggers When It’s Affecting My Mental Health Now? 6/14/2022
Video Q&A When Will the Constant Feeling That Another Betrayal Is Right around the Corner Fade? 5/24/2022
Video Q&A How Can I Channel My Own Genuine Positivity and Stop Being Concerned or Insulted by His Behaviors or Attitudes? 5/24/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Let Myself Be Happy Again? 4/08/2022
Video What Is A Forgiveness Letter? 3/16/2022
Video Q&A How Do I Emotionally Connect with Someone Who Treats Me This Way? 3/10/2022
Video Q&A How Long Should I Accept and Validate His Exaggerated Reactions as a Result of My Previously Reckless Behaviors? 2/17/2022
Video Q&A When an Intrusive Thought Occurs, How Do I Know the Difference between Suppressing and Ignoring That Thought versus Not Giving It Any Airtime, Capturing It, and Redirecting My Thinking to Something Else? 2/02/2022
Video Q&A How Can I Get To a More Balanced Psyche? 2/02/2022
Video Announcing NEW Infidelity Video Blog: Songs for the Soul 1/26/2022
Video Q&A Will the Betrayed’s Irritability Ever Go Away? 1/18/2022
Video Q&A How Can I Get My Emotionally Unavailable Husband to Walk toward the Storm Instead of Away? 1/18/2022
Text Social Shame: Four Ways to Stay In It 12/13/2021
Text Social Shame: Understanding the Paralysis of it 11/24/2021
Video Q&A How Much Should I Allow My Hurt Spouse to Vent and Control Conversations? 11/19/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Help My Betrayed Wife with Her Depression That Has Escalated Dramatically since Discovery? 11/04/2021
Video Q&A When Does Trauma Turn Into PTSD and Grief Turn Into Depression? 10/07/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Deal With This When I Cannot Reasonably Ask Her to Quit Working nor Can I Check In Frequently to Make Sure It's Not Happening Again? 8/17/2021
Video Q&A When My Mate Floods, Why Do I Get Distressed In Turn? 7/08/2021
Video Q&A How Can I Pretend Normal Around Family When Even Thoughts of Them Are Triggering and Intrusive? 6/17/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Get Over the Fact That My Wife Gave Her Affair Partner More Intense and Passionate Sex Than She Has Ever Given Me? 6/16/2021
Text Mental Health and Parenting: How to Support Yourself and Your Kids 6/02/2021
Text How Couples Can Promote Good Mental Health During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic 5/26/2021
Text Hope Rising Conference 2021 Announcement: Words of Wisdom from Keynote Speaker Shauna Shanks 5/19/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Cast Down My Thoughts of Beating Up My Wife’s Affair Partner? 4/29/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Go Back to Normal Sexual Behavior with My Spouse When My Spouse Told Me the Affair Partner Was Better Than Me in Bed and Also Had a Bigger Male Anatomy? 4/29/2021
Video Q&A How Do I Navigate Such Extreme Triggers from Discovery? 4/22/2021
Video Q&A What Can I or Should I Do With the Thoughts in My Head? 4/13/2021
Video Q&A How do I Let Go of This Painful Reminder? 3/22/2021
Video Q&A How Does the Betrayed Spouse Productively Handle Contempt and Disgust? 3/11/2021
Video Q&A Can You Help You Explain the Difference between Infidelity Trauma or PTSD and Clinical Depression? 3/09/2021

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