“Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you, or treat you with contempt, or dispute the passage with you?” — Walt Whitman …

Matt’s parents divorced when he was four. His mother and two sisters raised him. His mother never remarried and the family struggled financially throughout Matt’s childhood. While growing up he continually vowed that he would never be poor again, and that his children would never lack any material thing they…

Linda: It can be hard to own up to how we get in our own way of having the kind of partnership that we dream of. A chief deterrent to having a terrific partnership is frequently related to the inability to deal with differences well. When differences become a conflict…

Linda: If you’re finding it challenging to create the relationship of your dreams, it doesn’t mean that you’re a poor student. Rest assured that most others probably don’t find the process any easier than you do. Yet there are some couples whose relationship seems to live up to the phrase…

We’d like to share a piece about our work originally published by Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and written by Portland Helmich interviewing Linda and Charlie Bloom During the holiday season — replete with travel, family visits, extra spending, and the pressure to feel jolly and filled with good…

There is an African saying that goes like this: A friend is someone who knows your song and sings it to you when you have forgotten it. Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. …

Mark was a pleaser. He tripped all over himself trying to present himself as a nice guy. His life was dedicated to smiling, being positive, and trying to keep his wife Fay happy. Fay was a pistol. She had a fiery temper and she didn’t believe in repressing her emotions…

One of the most powerful vaccinations against anxiety is to know that you are fully loved. — Sheryl Paul in The Wisdom of Anxiety Linda: Large numbers of people live with the daily challenge of struggling with anxiety. Anxiety is a feeling of dread or foreboding associated with a danger…

Jesse, our firstborn, was three years old before I was willing to leave him for a vacation with my husband, Charlie. To say that I had been an obsessed, overprotective, neurotic, overwhelmed mother was… well, just about right. My parents, who lived over four hundred miles away, were the only…