Bea In Balance https://beainbalance.com/ Discover Balance Fri, 09 May 2025 14:29:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://beainbalance.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-BeaInBalance_Favicon-32x32.png Bea In Balance https://beainbalance.com/ 32 32 Effective Communications Skills for Everyday Life https://beainbalance.com/effective-communications-skills-for-everyday-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=effective-communications-skills-for-everyday-life Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:51:45 +0000 https://beainbalance.com/?p=3541 After the Fact The After the Fact communication skill is one of the many communication skills that I teach my clients. It is a very useful skill that facilitates connection between partners. Many clients tell me that during a discussion, argument or fight they often cannot think of what to say in the moment but […]

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]]> Emotional Intimacy https://beainbalance.com/emotional-intimacy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=emotional-intimacy Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:49:53 +0000 https://beainbalance.com/?p=3556   Intimacy is a relationship between people that nurtures and enhances emotional and physical closeness. Sharing of thoughts, feelings, moments, pleasurable affectionate physical touch, times and events in life, creates intimacy. Intimacy is about heart-to-heart sharing between people about their lives. Intimacy is about being with others as opposed to doing to others. Intimacy is connection, connection […]

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]]> The Pun[ch] Game. All fun No Tears for Toddler Impulses. https://beainbalance.com/the-punch-game-all-fun-no-tears-for-toddler-impulses/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-punch-game-all-fun-no-tears-for-toddler-impulses Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:48:36 +0000 https://beainbalance.com/?p=3561   One day recently my two-year-old grandson punched me. I handled it in the same way I handled my own children when they bit or hit me at that age. I said, “Oh, you want to play the Punching Game.” He said, “Yes.” We started swinging, pretending to punch each other. We did not hit […]

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]]> How Parents (and Others) Can Avoid Power Struggles with Children https://beainbalance.com/how-parents-and-others-can-avoid-power-struggles-with-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-parents-and-others-can-avoid-power-struggles-with-children Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:46:22 +0000 https://beainbalance.com/?p=3563   Parents and children get into power struggles all the time. Parents want to feel in control of their children and children like autonomy. When kids get too feisty and parents start to feel out of control, they start to fight with their kids in order to regain control. Kids rebel when parents get too […]

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]]> What to Say and Do if Your Child Threatens to Run Away https://beainbalance.com/what-to-say-and-do-if-your-child-threatens-to-run-away/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-say-and-do-if-your-child-threatens-to-run-away Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:43:53 +0000 https://beainbalance.com/?p=3566   Awhile back, I was watched the news report on the tragic death of a teenage boy who ran away from home after fighting with his parents about his over-use of a video game. He’d been missing for many days. He apparently died from a fall from a tree. Fighting between parents and kids happens […]

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]]> Sibling Rivalry: How Parents Can Make It Better or Make It Worse! https://beainbalance.com/sibling-rivalry-how-parents-can-make-it-better-or-make-it-worse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sibling-rivalry-how-parents-can-make-it-better-or-make-it-worse Tue, 29 Apr 2025 01:42:03 +0000 https://beainbalance.com/?p=3571   How parents (and others) can make it better or make it worse! Others can be relatives, teachers, religious leaders, coaches and neighbors, etc.   Rivalry is healthy. It is normal and natural for siblings to compete with each other. The competition prepares them for the world at large. Healthy individuals are able to compete […]

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