A gentle note: Couple’s skills are meant to support healthy connection. If something in your relationship feels confusing, belittling, or unsafe, it can be helpful to first read Is Verbal Abuse Really Abuse?   before practicing communication tools. Joni Mitchell’s Both Sides Now captures something many couples struggle to name: how easily certainty hardens, and how quickly understanding slips away when emotions take over. In close relationships, moments of conflict often fee

Originally posted August 25, 2014. Please welcome guest blogger Holly Easterby to BirthTouch! Holly is committed to promote the welfare...

Originally posted October 15, 2013. Losing a baby through miscarriage or stillbirth leads causes an increase in suffering, including disbelief, grief, shock, denial, anger, sadness and anxiety. These strong and primal emotions can take a toll on your marriage relationship. Recent research published by Dr. Katherine Gold and her colleagues in the journal, Pediatrics, indicates that couples who experience miscarriage or stillbirth have a greater chance of divorce than coup