August 21, 2023 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Have you ever wondered why you just keep doing more of the same? And is “more of the same” really working to your advantage, toward releasing your peak potential? Why are humans often so resistant to doing anything that will create positive change within themselves? Learning more, finishing a writing project, practicing music, exercising to […]
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Embracing Love’s Journey: How to Love Yourself
July 25, 2024 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Are you ready to embrace love’s journey? I believe it’s an integral piece of everyone’s personal hero’s journey. It begins with learning and practicing how to love yourself. It may sound like a cliché that loving others requires a capacity to love yourself. And yet it is true. It is impossible to allow someone to […]
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Why Love?
June 12, 2024 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Why love? Love has legs. It has extraordinary power to move us. To take us on a journey. It has the power to change us from the inside out. To give us eyes to see. And ears to hear what we cannot perceive without it. Love gives us the strength to endure through unimaginable hardship. […]
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How We Communicate As Children Affects How We Express Ourselves As Adults
May 30, 2024 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
How we communicate as children greatly affects how we express ourselves to the ones we love as adults. As a couples therapist, I always have conversations with both partners before taking them on as new clients. We talk about how the couple is struggling and how I might be helpful to their relationship. Most often […]
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Do We Find Ourselves in the Arms of Another… Or in the Depth of Ourself?
May 21, 2024 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Are you seeking counseling or therapy for yourself, your relationship or for business growth? Maybe you’re looking for help with communication, addiction or trauma. Perhaps you’re like many who call my office wondering do I work on my imperfect relationship first? Or do I start with my imperfect self? Now more than ever I’ve been […]
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Will Doing More Of The Same Release Your Peak Potential?
August 21, 2023 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Have you ever wondered why you just keep doing more of the same? And is “more of the same” really working to your advantage, toward releasing your peak potential? Why are humans often so resistant to doing anything that will create positive change within themselves? Learning more, finishing a writing project, practicing music, exercising to […]
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Can You Save Your Unhappy Marriage Or Are You Better Off Breaking Up?
August 9, 2023 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Are you exhausted from having the same conversation or argument over and over? Tired of your partner not hearing or understanding you? Is he/she even listening? Does he/she blankly stare right through you to the point you want to throw something at him to “wake him up”? Has an emotional or sexual affair come between […]
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The Ultimate Answers to a Balanced Fulfilling Life
June 13, 2023 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
A relationship in conflict is often an indication that the life of one person or both lives of the couple is out of balance. Being out of balance is like driving a car with unbalanced tires. This creates an annoying vibration that eventually wears the tires out. A Life In or Out of Balance Life […]
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The Man You Love Is A Withdrawer – 5 Ways To Help Him And Your Relationship
April 14, 2021 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Do you feel helpless in knowing how to help him and your relationship when he emotionally shuts down? Does your helplessness turn into resentment and feelings of being unloved? Like you’re not enough? Do you sometimes feel abandoned? Is the anxiety that you carry in your body ever present? It’s likely the man you love […]
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Can Emotional Withdrawal Lead To Porn Addiction?
March 23, 2021 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Have you just learned that your husband spends more time with porn than he does with you? Are your reaches for your guy’s affection met with distance? Does he withdraw and shut down with you while giving pornography his utmost attention? Can emotional withdrawal lead to porn addiction? That’s a really great question. In my […]
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Tis The Season For Emotion
December 15, 2020 / by Michael Wayne Regier Ph.D. / Relational Excellence Articles
Are you looking forward to this year’s Christmas? What are you feeling? Are you feeling happy that you will get to be with your family? Or perhaps sad that there will be no family gatherings at all this year? Or are you just trying to shut down all emotion? Is this really the season for […]
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