
Counseling Resources
Practical Tools to Better Understand Yourself and Your Relationships
These resources are designed to help you better understand what's happening within yourself, your relationships, and the different parts of life you're trying to navigate. Start with what you're experiencing, explore what might be contributing to it, and find practical ways to work with it.
When you're ready to move from knowing to doing, explore the DO Therapy exercises for opportunities to practice something different in everyday life.
Not Sure Where to Begin?
You don't need to know exactly what you're looking for. You might be trying to understand yourself better, work with difficult emotions, improve a relationship, navigate a change, or simply take better care of your life. Taking Care of Your Life brings together some of the core practices that support mental, emotional, physical, and social well-being across this resource library.
START HERE → TAKING CARE OF YOUR LIFE
Or, use the guide below to find the area that feels most relevant to you right now.
Find What You Need
You don't have to work through these resources in order. Start with what seems most useful right now.
KNOW YOURSELF
Understand the beliefs, values, experiences, strengths, capabilities, habits, and patterns that influence how you show up.
Explore: Identity Boot Camp • Values • Beliefs • Family of Origin & Systems • Relational Templates • Capabilities• Boundaries
TAKE CARE OF YOUR CAPACITY
Notice when stress, stimulation, responsibilities, or expectations are exceeding the resources you have available.
Explore: Stress, Overwhelm & Burnout • Self Care • Always On • Languishing
UNDERSTAND YOUR EMOTIONS
Learn to recognize what you're feeling, what may be contributing to it, and how to respond rather than simply react.
Explore: Understanding Emotions • Emotional Awareness • Anxiety & Worry • Depression • Shame • Grief & Loss • Rumination
BUILD MORE RANGE
Understand your automatic responses and develop more ways to respond when the usual approach isn't working.
Explore: Habits & Patterns • Agency • Choice Architecture • When Different Feels Wrong • Words & Language
TAKE CARE OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS
Strengthen communication, listening, boundaries, connection, conflict management, and repair.
Explore: Communication Boot Camp • Reflective Listening • Speaker & Listener • Guardrails • Rupture & Repair • Trust
BUILD & MAINTAIN YOUR US
Move beyond solving problems and intentionally build the relationship you want to share.
Explore: ME | WE | US • The Couples Manifesto • Differentiation • Connection, Intimacy & Desire • Play • Sharing the Load • System Check-In
NAVIGATE WHAT LIFE BRINGS
Find support for transitions, parenting, dating, separation, infidelity, changing roles, and other circumstances that can disrupt the system.
Explore: Transitions • Parenting & Co-Parenting • Separation • Stepping Outside the Relationship • Repairing After Infidelity
PRACTICE DOING DIFFERENT
Knowing something doesn't automatically change what happens next. Choose one behavior or response to practice and build some reps.
Explore: DO Therapy
REVIEW THE TAPE
Explore familiar situations and the patterns that show up in ourselves, our relationships, and everyday life. Slow things down, get curious about what may be happening, and consider something different to try.
Explore: Review the Tape Podcast
NOTICE → REVIEW THE GAME TAPE → PRACTICE → BUILD REPS → TEST & LEARNME | Understand Yourself
Build greater awareness of who you are and how you show up.
Explore your values, beliefs, identity, capabilities, needs, boundaries, habits, and patterns
to better understand what influences the way you think, feel, respond, and navigate life.
Emotions & Mental Health
Understand what your emotions and internal experiences may be communicating.
These resources explore anxiety, depression, stress, overwhelm, grief, rumination, shame, fear,
and other experiences while offering practical ways to increase awareness, expression, regulation, coping, connection, and flexibility.
WE | Communication & Relationships
Better communication begins with understanding both yourself and the person in front of you.
Explore tools for listening, expressing needs, navigating differences, creating safety, setting guardrails, managing conflict,
and developing healthier ways of communicating and connecting.
US | Building the Relationship
Relationships are systems that need attention, maintenance, and practice.
These resources help partners understand their patterns, strengthen connection and intimacy, navigate vulnerabilities,
repair after conflict, and intentionally build the kind of relationship they want to share.
Family, Transitions & Life Challenges
Life continually introduces new roles, responsibilities, transitions, and challenges. These resources provide practical frameworks
for navigating parenting and co-parenting, infidelity, and other circumstances that can place additional demands on individuals, couples, and families.
Do Therapy
Understanding something is different from Practicing it.
DO Therapy is a collection of exercises designed to help you take something you're noticing in therapy and try something different in everyday life.
Each worksheet focuses on one thing to practice.
Notice what's happening, review what you can learn from it, choose something to try, build some reps, and see what happens.
NOTICE → REVIEW THE GAME TAPE → PRACTICE → BUILD REPS → TEST & LEARN
The goal isn't to get it right. The goal is to learn from what happens.
ME | Practice With Yourself
Emotions | Practice With Your Internal Experience
WE + US | Practice With Relationships
INFIDELITY & RELATIONSHIP REPAIR | Practice With Rebuilding
Infidelity can create questions about what happened, why it happened, what can be trusted, and what comes next. These exercises are designed to support different stages of understanding and relationship repair. They are intentionally sequenced, and not every exercise will be useful at every step.
Move through them at a pace that fits where you are in the process.

Review the Tape Podcast
Sometimes it helps to hear the idea before trying to do something with it.
Review the Tape is a short-form podcast exploring the patterns that show up in ourselves, our relationships, and everyday life. Each episode takes a familiar situation, slows it down, gets curious about what may be happening underneath it, and offers something practical to try.
About 10 minutes. One situation. One pattern. One thing to try.
Understand the pattern. Try something different. See what happens.
