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• Affairs: A FEW WORDS (FROM JOE) ABOUT AFFAIRS (October 2001)
  This 25 page resource book is designed to be a resource to assist couples in the early stages of disclosing and discovering an affair. Help and suggestions include guidelines for telling, learning and hearing about the affair and the process of f

• Feelings: Worry?????????????? (April 11, 2000)
  Today's show is about worry. The show is based on the book WORRY: Hope and Help For A Common Condition, By Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

• Feelings: When I Say NO I Feel Guilty; I Feel Guilty and I Don't Say NO! (May 9, 2000)
  The topic of saying no and feeling guilty appears elsewhere in this website. Today the topic is about How to say no without feeling guilty and How to say no with feeling guilty.

• Feelings: Listen to Yourself: Inside and Out (February 6, 2001)
  The act of listening to one’s self can lead to a number of insights into current relationships and those relationships of days gone by. Today’s show focused on listening to the feelings within that can help us make choices and minimize

• Marriage: How To Get Married After 35 And How To Dump a Guy! (April 18, 2000)
  Although not meant to be a particularly serious show (look at the title!) The show did lend itself to some interesting calls and discussion. A couple of ideas were mentioned which I'll elaborate on.

• Marriage: Obstacles in Your Marriage and Other Important Relationships - Holding a Grudge (May 16, 2000)
  There are lots of things that create obstacles in our relationships with spouses, family and friends. This section looks at the ways in which holding a grudge affects our ability to be close and at times even be in a relationship. It is interesting t

• Marriage: Will My Marriage Last? The first two years of marriage (March 7, 2000)
  Today's show asks a question that we often consider at the early stages of relationships and especially at a time when separation and divorce are so prevalent in our society. I'm reminded of a man I recently sat with at a wedding dinner. Half-way through

• Marriage: Verbal Self Defense… and Getting Help and Other Acts of Courage (January 24, 2001)
  At some time we could discuss the book’s title and the use of the work idiot to describe the user, but we wont do that now. Today is about being on the receiving end of remarks and comments, as well as being on the side that dishes it out. Neither side

• Parenting: Why We Call It The GUILT NAP! (June 2000)
  Most viewers of the show laugh when we call moms having a nap in the middle of the day a GUILT NAP. Here’s a few words on the topic. Hope they are of interest and helpful to new moms.

• Parenting: Raising Emotionally Intelligent Boys (February 14, 2001)
  Using some of the ideas of the IQ (or the intelligence quotient) there has been a development of an EQ scale to measure the emotional quotient of an individual. This body of literature has encouraged us as parents to think beyond IQ (marks at school,

• Parenting: Does Yelling Really Work (YES!) and Saying NO (March 21, 2001)
  Today's show is about parenting and some of things we need to look at as we approach this difficult (although at times rewarding!) task. The topics covered on the show are YELLING and SAYING "NO" to our children. Both are on-going issues

• Relationships: Initiating Relationship Change - Evolution and Revolution (2000)
  Everyone sees areas in their relationships where they can envision things being different or perhaps better than they are at this particular point in time. This of course calls for change. What kind of change is to take place is more in one’s control th

• Relationships: Issues and Problems: Understanding and Differentiating Between The Two DIFFERENTIATING BETWEEN THE TWO (2000)
  Sometimes we get busy thinking everything is a problem and lose sight of the fact that certain situations normally or naturally lend themselves to certain dilemmas. Deciding how to classify an event, a series of events, misunderstandings, and feelings, m

• Relationships: The Caretaker Must Take Care of Themselves and, Don't Find Yourself Spending More Time on Someone Else's Problems Than They Do (July 11, 2000)
  An open line show allows for me to draw on themes based on the snapshots callers present as their dilemmas, problems, and issues in relationships. Today common themes for callers were the gratifying use (and eventual abuse and misuse) of ourselves as hel

• Relationships: Rescue Your Relationship (June 27, 2000)
  When you’ve let it go, settled for less, complained, whined and done little else about your “needs work relationship” its time to put your relationship on PROJECT STATUS! When you’ve let it go, settled for less, complained, whined and done littl

• Relationships: Siblings (May 31, 2000)
  For many adults the sibling relationship is the longest standing relationship they will have in their life. Its importance is based on this fact and also the number of shared experiences (both good and bad) that siblings share in their lives.

• Relationships: Perfectionists: Being One or Living With One (June 13, 2000)
  Perfect is really not a good thing to try and be or to strive for. It's also not a good thing to demand of others. Being a perfectionist can be painful, debilitating and can result in some very tense relationships, social isolation and lots more. Less

• Relationships: Ready For Change? and Patterns In Relationships (March 21, 2000)
  The first two questions we need to address are what does a “pattern” mean and what does being “ready” mean in terms of relationship changes?

• Relationships: The IN-LAWS! (July 18, 2000)
  In-Laws can be one of the most stressful things to deal with in our long term relationships. Having strategies for coping may be useful in establishing yourself in the extended family confusion your partner might bring to the relationship. Besides, you m

• Relationships: Do Children Learn From Their Parents' Marriage? and Children Learn What They Live (February 20, 2001)
  Today's topic, Do Children Learn From Their Parents' Marriage ? takes an inter-generational look at marriage. Our own marriages provide the relationship blueprints for our childrens' future relationships in the same way that our parent's marriages

• Relationships: The Surrendered Wife: The Surrendered Talk Show Therapist (March 27, 2001)
  I knew I couldn't do a weekly national show on issues of adult and family relationships and not talk about this book! What is unexpected is the amount of reaction, thinking and discussion that a book like this can generate! Here's a topic that makes us

• Relationships: Hurdles & Roadblocks: Take Another Look At Your Relationship's Problems (April 10, 2001)
  This is a short article about hurdles and roadblocks in adult relationships.
  Sometimes it's good to have a general framework to reference the events and issues that people face in relationships as adult partners. We know quite a bit ab

• Relationships: Being Forgiven and Forgiving Others: A Relationship Dilemma (June 12, 2001)
  If you are thinking of forgiving someone for a wrong done to you, or would like someone to forgive you, this may be a helpful article to look over. We look forward to discussions on the show scheduled for June 12th, 2001 which will be dealing with

• Relationships: Anger As A Feeling & Anger As A Behaviour: Dealing With An Angry Loved One (July 10, 2001)
  Having a feeling like anger is very different than behaving in an angry fashion both for the individual and the couple, and ultimately for the family. The focus of this article is to look at the realities of living with an angry loved on

• Relationships: HELP, I’M STUCK!: Relationship Stuck and How To Get Unstuck (January 2002)
  Stuck in your relationship? This 25 page resource may help you to spot ways in which stuck can be addressed and solved and where changes can begin to take place. A great booklet full of suggestions, ideas and examples to assist you on the road to “unstu

• Self-Help: Stress, Guilt and a Paycheque: Women in the Workplace (April 2000)
  On April 20,2000 I was honoured to be the guest speaker at the Third Thursday of the Month Women’s Breakfast Network of Oshawa. This group meets monthly in the morning and is committed to advocating the success of business women and women in business.

• Self-Help: Open Show: Be Your Own Best Friend and Relationships "Expire" (June 6, 2000)
  Once every 5 or 6 weeks the show is an open hour for callers to connect with issues or problems they’d like to identify, explore, resolve or solve. Today’s call and discussion included a couple of ideas that hopefully will be useful to the individual cal

• Self-Help: Just Say No. (2000)
  Sounds easy but for lots of people saying no is very stressful and very difficult. Learn to say it means you have to use the word in sentences, learn how to overcome things, learn how to still view yourself as an okay person if you say it.

• Self-Help: Happiness Is.… (2001)
  Sometimes people will talk about happiness or being happy and come to realizations about their lives, their past relationships & the kinds of things upon which they have focused their energy.

• Self-Help: Happiness: Just the Poem & Writings (2001)
  Happiness: Just The Poem and The Writings! Some people are interested in reading this passage and have asked where they can find a copy. It' right here! Enjoy. You can also find it at the end of this website's article Happiness Is….

• Self-Help: Family Secrets (Big and Small): The Family Secret Worksheets The Family Secret Worksheets (April 17, 2001)
  If you carry a family secret or two, these worksheets may be for you! Family secrets, big and small, can be painful to keep. Sometimes they create a fear of telling that can have a greater impact on your life than you may have suspected. These

• Separation-Divorce: DivorcEd I : The First in a Series of Resources For Separating, Divorced and Remarried Adults (October 2001)
  Join Joe Rich as he provides information and insight for separating and divorced parents in the first of this series of "Divorce Education Books." This resource deals with a range of topics including: How Children Feel When Their Parents Separate (and

• Sex: Is there sex after marriage? AND Is it okay to fantasize? (April 25, 2000)
  The first question begins with an assumption that people have sex before marriage. We know this is not true for one and all so it’s important to interpret this question in the broader context of What happens to sex over periods of time and when does sex

• Sex: Intimacy and Sex: Lets Have A Look (2000)
  This section is designed to provide a working definition of couple intimacy and to explore the uses and misuses of the word sex.

• Sex: Couple Dilemmas in the Bedroom (February 13, 2001)
  Today’s pre-Valentine’s Day show was designed to identify some of the dilemmas faced by adults in their sexually intimate relationships and to try and provide assistance and suggestions. The book and the series of Venus and Mars books allowed for a quick