Category: Loving Relationships
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Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
Don’t Let the Pessimists Dim Your Light: Protecting Your Optimism in the New Year
The start of a new year often brings reflection, hope, and vulnerability. In this reflective post, Leslie Tourish, LPC, explores how chronic pessimism—our own or others’—can quietly drain our emotional energy and optimism. Through storytelling and practical insight, she offers ways to protect positivity, set emotional boundaries, and cultivate optimism as a meaningful practice. This…
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3 Reasons You Already Have the Happiness You Need for the New Year
3 Reasons You Already Have the Happiness You Need for the New Year
As the new year begins, many of us look ahead hoping happiness will finally arrive. But research and reflection suggest something gentler and more reassuring: much of the happiness we seek is already present in our lives. This post explores three reasons you may already have what you need to enter the new year with…
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Four Rules of a Successful Marriage
Four Rules of a Successful Marriage
All marriages take work. In this article I outline the Four Rules of a Successful Marriage and how any couple can begin re-filling their emotional bank accounts with Care, Protection, Honesty, and Time.
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Addicted to Love and Recovering with Self-Esteem
Addicted to Love and Recovering with Self-Esteem
Addiction to love is more common amongst women, and typically rooted in growing up in a home environment with less nurturing and warmth than the child needed. This leads into a pattern of recreating the chaos or “lack of” by trying to control situations, the love, or how one is treated by their mate. Low…
Leslie Tourish LPC 