Center For Relationship and Sexual Wellness

12/22/2025

Healthy love isn’t found by accident. It’s built in the quiet work you do with yourself — the work that makes connection softer, safer, and more sustainable. The right person can meet you, but you have to be ready to meet them too. 🖤

12/22/2025

12/21/2025

12/20/2025

Important info here

12/19/2025

Did you know that up to 30% of couples seeking help have one partner who is seriously considering divorce but isn’t fully sure they want to end the marriage?

They aren’t ready for couples therapy
…and they aren’t ready to divorce.
They're looking for clarity.

Discernment Counseling gives them that clarity, with a short-term, structured process that honors both partners’ goals.

Not therapy.
Not advice.
A decision process.
Learn more about Discernment Counseling at https://discernmentcounseling.com/

12/19/2025

Reliability.

Not closeness.

Who do you depend on?

12/13/2025

12/11/2025

Building the support systems we need starts with the belief that we can all participate in, and benefit from, a village.

12/05/2025

Raising connected kids isn’t just about loving them; it’s about teaching them how to live relationally.

Nurturing means giving your child unconditional love: You cannot un-earn my love. I love you because of who you are, not because of what you achieve.

That’s what builds healthy self-esteem – a solid sense of “I matter, simply because I exist.”

But love without limits breeds entitlement.

Limit setting is how children learn that their actions have an impact. And along with teaching accountability, it’s important that we also offer our kids an avenue of repair.

And then there’s guidance. Guidance is where we teach our kids how to be relational.

How to handle themselves in conflict.

How to speak truth without harshness.

How to listen well, and how to ask for more.

When any one of these three elements goes missing, kids often fall out of balance. They grow up either ruled by shame or puffed up with grandiosity.

And when we as parents get triggered, it’s usually because our own inner child didn’t get the blend right either.

Maybe you grew up in a home full of love but without boundaries, or with plenty of discipline but no tenderness.

Those wounds live in your nervous system and leak into your parenting.

So the first step in healthy parenting is learning to reparent yourself. To hold the parts of you that didn’t get enough nurturing, build boundaries with the parts that act out, and be guided by the Wise Adult you are today.

Because kids don’t need perfect parents; they need whole ones.