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Flourishing with Healthy Relationships

From the cradle to the grave, relationships play a vital role in development. Starting with caregivers, particularly the mother, and moving to the significant others that decorate our adult lives. Significant development of self is facilitated by healthy and supportive relationships.

An English Poet Famously wrote, "No man is an island." John Donne captures the significance of human relations in this beautifully written poem. We need each other and contribute to each other's wellness. In this beautiful cycle of giving and taking, we flourish or flounder.

Flourishing can't be accomplished alone in our houses or in our hearts. Flourishing occurs within the realm of others.

To flourish, we must attend to progress, not stagnating in the present but on a course of improvement of mind, spirit and body.

External Wellness Links:

External Link: We Don’t Need Advice. We Need to Be Heard.

The Best of Relationships from the FLS Archives

Internal link. Can I trust you? Trust is the golden ingredient for intimacy. Without it, relationships suffer and die. We must dependably show that our partner's happiness, and the strength of the relationship significantly influences our choices.

FLS internal Link. Abandonment or Engulfment: Partners will inevitably face a mismatch in attachment styles. The difference doesn't matter as much as how the couple approaches and works through the difference.

Imperfections, we all have them; but accepting them in others is a challenge.

Loving someone includes respect; respect of their space, privacy, and freedom. Sometimes loving requires painful good-byes

FLS link. Contemplating Compromise: Compromise allows connection and autonomy to co-exist in intimacy.

When we expertly greet our child's emotions with empathy, acceptance and reciprocation, the child develops a positive relationship with their own feelings--a major contribution to healthy living.

Small emotions, poking through from the past, can avalanche into full blown hatred. We must catch the mislabeling of experience, make corrections and work towards building a relationship with love an intimacy.

It takes a village, they say. Much has changed but parental involvement contributes to the cognitive development of the child. Fathers stay in touch, keep involved.

The strength of the relationship is exposed by how we treat a partner when irritable, or stressed. Love requires intentional action.

Intimacy bridges the gap between two people, facilitating exchanges that reach deeper than words could ever express.