Relationships can bring our greatest joy — and our greatest vulnerability. In this issue, we’re exploring what helps love last, how anxiety can sneak into dating and long-term partnerships, why pausing is powerful when kids are overwhelmed, and the freedom that comes from letting ourselves be a work in progress. As always, we’re sharing practical, evidence-based insights you can use in real life, whether you’re navigating relationships, parenting, or your own emotional wellbeing.
Warmly,
Dr. Debra Kissen
In this Issue:
Making Love Last: 7 Relationship Skills That Strengthen Long-Term Connection - Long-term love isn’t just about chemistry — it’s about skills. Dr. Morton Kissen's practical guide outlines seven core competencies that help couples navigate stress, communication challenges, and emotional needs over time.
The Power of the Pause: A Simple Parenting Strategy When Kids Act Out - This CBS Mental Health Minute highlights how taking a pause before reacting can reduce power struggles and teach emotional regulation.
Why Women Are Celebrating 32 as the “New Sweet 16” - A cultural trend inspired by Sex and the City is reframing age 32 as a celebration of becoming and not “having it all together.” Check out this NY Post article featuring Dr. Kissen.
Social Media and Dating Anxiety: When Scrolling Fuels Relationship Doubt Unfortunately, the more we search for certainty online, the more anxious and doubtful we often feel. Learn how to step back from digital “detective work” and take a Quick Self Check: Boundary or Dating Anxiety.
RelationshipOCD: 6 Tips to Help When Anxiety Targets Your Partnership - Relationship OCD (ROCD) causes persistent doubts about one’s partner, feelings, or the “rightness” of the relationship — even when things are going well. Read the 6 tips to reduce relationship OCD.
Inside Light On Anxiety’s Clinical Training Institute - Light On Anxiety clinicians are deeply trained in gold-standard approaches through our Clinical Training Institute. Learn about the training program our clincians undergo to become true Anxiety Specialists.
7 Core Competencies for Lasting Love
Healthy relationships are built intentionally, and these tools can help partners grow together instead of apart. Dr. Morton Kissen explains how focusing on these seven strengths—and keep strengthening them—is a task that’s not only possible, but deeply rewarding.
When children are overwhelmed, their behavior is communication. Dr. Debra Kissen and CBS News Anchor Marie Saavedra discuss how a calm, regulated adult is one of the most powerful tools for helping kids learn to manage big feelings.
Turning 32 Into a Milestone: Embracing Growth Over Perfection
The latest trend for 30-something's is a celebration and reminder that growth is ongoing, identity evolves, and life doesn’t follow a rigid schedule. There is powerful mental health value in allowing ourselves to be a work in progress.
Scrolling, Checking, and Controlling: When Social Media Triggers Dating Anxiety
For people prone to anxiety, social media can become a source of constant checking, comparison, and reassurance-seeking in dating relationships. With the right tools, you can learn to respond to dating anxiety without checking, controlling, or monitoring — and build relationships based on trust rather than surveillance. Take this Quick Self-check: Boundary or dating anxiety?
Relationship OCD: When Doubt Hijacks Your Relationship
Instrusive doubts feel urgent and important, but they are driven by anxiety, not intuition. Evidence-based treatment helps people respond to doubt differently so relationships are guided by values, not fear.
Our clinical team is trained in the latest advances in the treatment of anxiety orders using gold-standard therapies such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Exposure Therapy. Learn more about how LOA Clinician's are trained to be Anxiety Specialists.
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