Healthy personal relationships thrive on empathic practices. But in the workplace, empathy is a crucial skill for both organization leaders and mental health professionals. Learn how to incorporate empathy into the workplace by educating employees, listening, and showing clients that they are accepted as they are.
Author: Seth Eisenberg
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It’s Time to Tell the Truth about Love
It’s not love we can honestly promise when we unite our lives. How can we promise a feeling that naturally waxes and wanes through the transitions and passages of our lives?
Rx for the Ashley Madison Crossroad
Can getting busted on Ashley Madison be the beginning of true love and a happier, stronger marriage?
Can Couples Keep that Loving Feeling?
Can couples in a marriage and relationship skills training retreat learn to keep that loving feeling alive? Will those who lost each other years ago be able to rekindle what they once had?
My Sweet Baton Rouge
Mike and Barb were no longer that young couple in love. They were in a weekend retreat searching for any last-ditch sign of hope for a marriage that had more years of sour than sweetness. For a moment, he remembered his sweet Baton Rouge. And there she was, sitting beside him.
Intimacy’s Secret Hopes and Fears
“Seen this sky from the Afghan mountains, deserts of Iraq, Sinai and Saudi Arabia. Plenty of other places too. Even on the worst of days, it’s always been my place of peace,” Mike said. The pair sat in silence for a few minutes, quietly acknowledging the beauty and solitude in which they were embraced. Realizing the 15-minute break was about to end, the instructor broke the silence.
“He will wipe away every tear …”
“I’d like the fighting to stop,” Barbara said. “I’d like the pain to stop. I’d like to stop feeling angry, scared and sad all the time. I’d like to stop suspecting him all the time. I’d like to either know we can make things better, like it once was, or, as hard is it might be, call it quits. I can’t take this anymore. I wont,” she said as the sobs began.
Will marriage equality end Evelyn and Kathy’s 10-year relationship?
Evelyn smiled, not surprised that bringing her wife to the weekend marriage retreat would raise some eyebrows. The couple hadn’t expected anything to change in their relationship after they married. But something had changed.
Can AJ and Ashley keep up their fairy tale romance?
Ashley turned to catch a glimpse of Barb and Mike several rows back. “See what you mean, AJ,” she said. “But I told you already, you ever leave me, I’m coming with you.”
Should Mike and Barb Save Their Marriage? Will They?
Entering the conference room within a few inches of each other, the gulf between the couple betrayed canyons of hostility and despair as they dragged themselves like two people who’d had their knees broken to a last chance weekend for a miserable marriage from which both seemed eager to flee.
What could it mean to sacrifice love for Lent?
What could it mean to sacrifice love for Lent? PAIRS CEO Seth Eisenberg considers what it might mean for couples, marriages and families made up of people who by our very nature are lifelong “works in progress” if modern love was built on a foundation of commitment rather than commitment depending on feelings of love.
Kayla, Rosie, Brian and Society at a Crossroads
As a society, is America more interested in the breakup of Rosie O’Donnell or the plight of a young American woman, Kayla Mueller, who risked her life to help people suffering far from our shores?
Can Married at First Sight Lead to Happily Ever After?
Can married at first sight lead to lasting love and happiness? I’ve seen that it can, although there’s much more to it than what our eyes and heart experience.
How I Won My Fights with Joan Rivers
It wasn’t always easy winning my fights with Joan Rivers.
Obama’s Ferguson Visit Has to Begin with Listening
Ferguson’s protesters are united in wanting to be heard; not counseled, consoled or seeing Michael Brown’s death continue as a daily backdrop for lawyers, politicians, pundits and others who began looting the community’s sorrow even faster than those who pillaged groceries, liquor and electronics.
Robin Williams: Lightning in the Melody of Laughter
Robin William's greatest contribution may be helping people who are the least trained — the closest of family and friends — learn to help loved ones who are anxious, depressed or struggling with the impact of trauma.
Blue Mountain Doesn’t Send Cards to Heaven
A morning reminder of dad’s upcoming birthday that arrived nearly three years after his death helps me realize my gratitude for a dad I barely knew.
Getting Started with the Most Important Thing You Can Do for Your Relationship
The most important thing you can do for your relationships is looking for what’s right in the people closest to you and developing the habit of generously, sincerely, and specifically appreciating them. Here are 300 inspiring examples to help you get started.
Most Important Thing to Do for Your Relationship
The most important thing you can do for relationships isn’t difficult and is possible for anyone, says an industry leader in marriage and relationship education. Get inspired with 300 examples of loving, affirming words to strengthen the relationships you want to last.
$100 Million Reveals Who Can Save Your Marriage
The person who will save your marriage is closer than you may have realized. The most significant study ever conducted on marriage and relationship education, at an estimated cost of $100 million, reveals who can save our marriages and who can’t.
