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Supporting Women in Navigating Love, Identity, and Well-Being
Therapy is just one part of the journey—real growth happens in the moments in between. Our blog is here to support you with insights, practical tips, and reflections to help you navigate life, deepen self-awareness, and continue learning beyond the therapy room.
The Impact of Grief on Relationships
Grief is a deeply personal experience, yet its effects extend far beyond the individual. When loss enters a relationship—whether through the death of a loved one, a miscarriage, or another life-altering event—it can reshape…
How to Fit Romance Back into Your Scheduled Sex Life
It’s the natural course of things in any romantic relationship: as time passes, the “newness” and “butterflies” gives way to routine. You always know what to expect from your partner, and you’ve heard all their stories. While your love for your partner has grown and matured along with you and your relationship, it’s not uncommon for…
Revive's Toolkit: Relationships are Not Automatically Wonderful
We often grow up believing that love and connection should come easily—that once we find the right person, everything will fall into place. But the reality is that relationships, no matter how strong, require…
How to Tell if You Need Better Boundaries
“Boundaries”: rules or limits that a person sets to create reasonable and safe ways for other people to behave toward them, and how they will respond when someone passes limits. Lack of personal boundaries can wreak havoc in your life and contribute to worse interpersonal...
4 Tips For Enhancing Intimacy
Intimacy - it’s a word used so often in couples therapy (and individual therapy) sessions. It’s described differently across various sources, referred to constantly by some people seeking more of it, and sometimes used only to describe sex. Perhaps these different definitions contribute to some...
Is the Grass Really Greener?
Today we at Revive have an ACTION PROMPT for you to practice at home! Going along with Amanda’s recent toolkit video, we wanted to blog about the tendency for couples to compare their relationships to friends and family members. We are so inundated these days...
The One Crucial Thing to Ask Yourself During a Fight
Arguments can feel like emotional whirlwinds—frustration builds, words come out sharper than intended, and suddenly, you're defending yourself instead of truly listening. When tensions rise, it’s easy to get stuck in a cycle of blame, defensiveness, or rehashing past grievances. But what if…
Your Partner Will Listen If You Express the Right Emotions!
Have you ever been talking about a fight and gotten so tired of the conversation going in circles that you'd rather just go back to all-out brawling?! Most couples have. Following very common conflicts, it's natural to want to prove your point, express yourself, and...
Revive's Toolkit: Treat your partner like a friend
Amanda Berry shares tips on how to treat your significant other as a friend during your relationship.
How to Apologize after a Fight
We all know it is NOT easy to say you’re sorry. Couples therapy tends to be a safer place to express wrongdoing and to forgive, but even during a session reaching this type of vulnerability is really challenging for most people. We’re all human! It’s...
Ignite a Spark: Simple Ways to Connect
Holiday season is upon us, making spending uninterrupted time together even more challenging. Sometimes it really does feel impossible. Let me be the first (or tenth!) to tell you - you have to MAKE it happen. It’s not easy, and it’s not going to happen...
Revive's Toolkit: Cheat-proof Your Relationship
Amanda shares a tip on how to communicate better to avoid having to deal with infidelity in your partnership.
How to Use Criticism to Your Benefit
Do you get defensive when your spouse speaks? Do you wonder if you’re being too critical in your relationships? Criticism is absolutely INEVITABLE in relationships - whether married or not. It is born from a normal, natural drive that lives inside of all of us...
3 Tips to Beat Jealousy
It is normal to feel jealous from time time - most couples, and people for that matter, experience jealousy. Depending on your background and attachment style, you could have trouble taming jealousy when it creeps up. For this reason, we thought we’d share a few...
Couples Therapy for Separation
Today we want to clear up the myth that relationship therapy is ONLY for couples or individuals who want to have happier and more fulfilling love lives. That is, of course, many clients’ goal and we are here to help you understand yourselves and your...
5 Tips to Generate Kindness
We have been thinking a lot lately about how easy it is to take your partner for granted, especially the longer you are together. All too often, Revive works with couples where one or both partners have fallen into a terrible rut - one where...
Revive's Toolkit: Strategy for Better Understanding
In this short video, Amanda describes a way to increase understanding in your relationship by exploring the families you both come from. Check it out to learn one strategy to be more compassionate toward your partner!
Revive's Toolkit: Help Your Partner Listen To You!
If you have been feeling like your partner doesn't hear you, this communication tip will help you to get through to them! Check out this video to learn a simple way to get through to your partner so that he or she is more willing.
Revive's Toolkit: How To Be Successful in Couples Therapy
Are you wondering what you will get out of couples therapy? Many things, provided you're willing to put the work in! Here, Amanda describes two tradeoffs you must make to benefit from couples therapy.
Revive's Toolkit: Using Words of Affirmation
In this video, Amanda will describe 3 ways to show your partner love, if he or she is particularly fond of you expressing this verbally. Words of affirmation is a very important love language! Learn how to express love this way.