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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching & Empathy

Ellie Lisitsa

As parents, you can model treating others with empathy, selflessness, affection, and respect.

How to Engage in Emotion Coaching

Ellie Lisitsa

Emotion coaching gets to the heart of your child's feelings and behaviors.

Homework Assignment: Choosing Better

Ellie Lisitsa

Choose to connect with the people in the room instead of connecting through technology. Here are ways to do just that.

The Digital Age: Building Intimacy

Ellie Lisitsa

Be close even when you're far away.

The Digital Age: Long-Distance Relationships

Ellie Lisitsa

Using virtual communication to connect with a partner long-distance confers unexpected benefits

10 Tips to Prevent Conflicts Online: A Guide for the Digital Age

Ellie Lisitsa

Getting into warfare over text or social media is a losing fight.

The Digital Age: What’s Beneath the Conflict?

Ellie Lisitsa

In our last post on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we introduced the topic of Conflict in Cyberspace. Today, we would like to explore the subject in greater depth.

The Digital Age: Conflict in Cyberspace

Ellie Lisitsa

As you spar online, intimacy goes out the window.

Timeless Tips for Sleeping Well

Ellie Lisitsa

Research indicates that a sleepless night is associated with greater relationship conflict the following day.

Making Sure Emotional Flooding Doesn’t Capsize Your Relationship

Ellie Lisitsa

Read how emotional flooding ignites your fight-or-flight mode and ways to avoid this so you don't derail your conflict management.

Bringing Baby Home: Interview

The Gottman Institute

Find out more about the Bringing Baby Home training.

Bringing Baby Home: The Research

Ellie Lisitsa

In sixteen studies conducted on parents before and after their baby’s birth, Drs. John and Julie Gottman discovered the following.