Why It’s Important to Take Care of Your Relationship
The security of a healthy relationship bond has significant benefits at every stage of life. Positive relationships can be a healthy way to meet some of our primal needs: to feel safe, recognized and responded to. Close relationships provide the love, comfort and support we need to help us manage the inevitable stresses of our lives. This social support is especially important in challenging times and impacts our physical, emotional, family and community health in myriad ways.
Click here to read excerpts from Dr. Sue Johnson's book Hold Me Tight.
Contemporary problems such as overworking, overspending, overeating, overthinking, competing or people-pleasing, express a search for stimulation or relief in ways that not only do not meet true needs, but can, especially in excess, be harmful.
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