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Boundaries
Boundaries say “yes” as often as they say “no.”
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Jun 23, 20211 min read


Assertiveness
Assertiveness is not Aggressiveness
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Jun 16, 20211 min read


Change Your Relationship by Changing Your Behavior
Behavior Modification to Improve Interpersonal Skills
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Jun 9, 20212 min read


Learned Helplessness
Moving past trauma and maladaptive coping strategies, like learned helplessness, into the future you want to create.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Jun 2, 20212 min read


Avoidance Coping Through Addiction
Stop Avoiding Your Reality – Create the Reality You Want.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
May 26, 20212 min read


Avoidance Coping
Avoidance is a healthy response – until it isn’t.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
May 19, 20212 min read


Maladaptive Coping Strategies
Moving past trauma and maladaptive coping strategies into the future you want to create.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
May 8, 20212 min read


How to Forgive Yourself
If we don’t forgive ourselves, we lower the bar each time we make an excuse and adapt our beliefs to our behavior.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Apr 28, 20213 min read


How to Forgive Others
In my post What Is Forgiveness , the difference between emotional forgiveness and decisional forgiveness was addressed. Now, we move on...
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Apr 22, 20212 min read


What is Forgiveness?
What forgiveness is, how we forgive others, and how we forgive ourselves.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Apr 14, 20212 min read


Infidelity and PTSD V
Infidelity and PTSD - Crippling Effects of Isolation Caused “Feelings of Detachment or Estrangement From Others.”
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Mar 24, 20212 min read


Infidelity and PTSD IV
PTSD symptoms in the faithful spouse.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Mar 16, 20212 min read


Infidelity and PTSD III
PTSD symptoms in the faithful spouse.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Mar 10, 20212 min read


Infidelity and PTSD II
PTSD symptoms in the faithful spouse
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Mar 3, 20213 min read


Infidelity & PTSD I
PTSD symptoms in the faithful spouse.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Feb 23, 20212 min read


Guest Blog for ChristianParenting.org
Yes, You Need a Marriage Mentor
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Feb 22, 20211 min read


"It Didn’t Mean Anything!"
Just. Don't. Say. It.
Do the work. Marriages can and do thrive after infidelity.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Feb 18, 20212 min read


Is Love All You Need?
That depends entirely on how you define love.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Feb 10, 20212 min read


Attachment Styles
Attachment styles shape relationships. Bowlby discovered four attachment styles, i.e., Avoidant, Ambivalent, Disorganized, and Secure,...
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Feb 6, 20211 min read

Sex & Intimacy
Sex and intimacy, aren’t they the same thing?
The short answer is no.
Angela Startz, MAHSC, CMCLC
Dec 19, 20202 min read
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