Kristy Norris, LMFT

07/13/2023

04/14/2023

An Emotional Bank Account works essentially the same as a financial bank account. When you turn toward your partner’s bids for connection, you are making a deposit. When you turn away from your partner, you make a withdrawal.

Research shows us that couples in happy & stable relationships have 20 positive interactions -or deposits- to every negative withdrawal. In times of conflict, deposits should still outweigh withdrawls at a ratio of 5:1.

Subscribers to our Love Notes Newsletter, this month to receive a free PDF of tangible ideas on how to make deposits in your Emotional Bank Account. Sign up today: https://bit.ly/30JWG2H

04/01/2023

Yessss!!! Move….

Bessel van der Kolk, MD, and TRF have long histories of bringing together trauma-informed movement practitioners and researchers. Movement is an opportunity to free our bodies from the painful effects of traumatic experiences safely and therapeutically. In this week's blog, Erica Hornthal shares her work supporting individuals healing from traumatic experiences as a mind-body therapist.

Read the post here:
https://bit.ly/3JXVTRe

03/08/2023

Send this to a friend….

When they come in and use it….YOU get one too!

03/07/2023

Favorite Date Night
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Go!!!

02/28/2023

Love this!!

02/28/2023

When it comes to raising children, what parenting styles make the difference? Dr. Gottman has spent the past 40 years looking for the answer.

02/15/2023

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02/14/2023

Studies show that social touch is essential to our mental well-being and can reduce stress and pain while helping us bond with one another.

02/14/2023

Love others as you would want to be loved….but do it in their way….

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02/07/2023

Our earliest experiences directly impact our relationship with our nervous system. Childhood trauma and neglect create a feeling of fear and can result in an over-development of our heightened survival responses that last well into adulthood. Carolina Murriel, trauma-informed journalist and podcaster, shares her personal experience with the impacts of survival on interpersonal relationships now.

Read the full article here:
https://bit.ly/3JsWr2y

01/27/2023

01/26/2023

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Criticism can lead you right to divorce court.

01/19/2023

Date night can feel like just one more thing to cross off your to-do list, but it doesn't have to be complicated or stressful.

By thinking ahead to what potential date nights could be, it becomes much easier to just spend time together instead of trying to make decisions about what to do. This month's free download with the Love Notes newsletter has date night ideas — and extra space for you to add your own.

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12/04/2022

😂😂😂 from a client ….