Author: Rick Hanson

In relationships, women generally tend to focus on feeling connected, while men are sensitive to status and dominance. Each gender style is valid and skill with the other gender’s style lets you shift gears effectively, depending on what’s needed....

Waiting for others to change first creates deadlocks, vicious cycles, and a sense of helplessness. The alternative is unilateral virtue, the focus of our episode today....

In this column we will explore how parents can support the development of the positive motivations within their kids that will draw them toward productive and healthy paths....

Today we’re focusing on Empathy, which allows us to tune into and understand other people. Empathy is a key social skill that helps us make sense of nuance, read intentions correctly, recognize the hurt under anger, and communicate and interact more skillfully....

Keeping romantic love alive in the midst of raising kids and earning a living is one of the hardest things that anyone can do. By keeping commitments, building a framework and using a variety of tools, you can turn things around....

Learn about Intimacy, focusing on how to balance two seemingly conflicting goals: maintaining our independence from other people while also forging emotionally intimate relationships with them....

Just parenting itself is very difficult. The larger task of making a family — earning a living, maintaining a marriage, juggling schedules, managing a household, etc. etc. — is even harder. This article explores what to do individually and as a couple to keep the...