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The Digital Age: How Has It Changed Your Life?
In Monday’s posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we encouraged you to consider the significance of choices you make in the digital age – their effects not only on your relationships with others,...
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The Digital Age: Who Am I?
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we bring you a very important Weekend Homework Assignment. If you have read Dr. Gottman's New York Times bestselling The Seven Principles for Making Marriage...
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The Digital Age: Two Realities
Last week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we wrote about the necessity of making time for yourself in this increasingly busy-making (and often crazy-making!) age of technology. We discussed the many...
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The Digital Age: Self-Esteem
In Monday's entry on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we promised to explore and address the reasons for specific difficulties you may be encountering in your relationships as a result of the Digital...
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The Digital Age : How to Find Time and Space to Disconnect with Care and Grace
In the last couple of weeks on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we’ve been talking about healthy approaches to relationships in the Digital Age. Today we’d like to share an article with you that...
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The Digital Age: Your Stress Levels
This week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we turn our attention from self-esteem to stress. Researchers of cognitive psychology in Quebec, Canada exploring the effect of stress on our brains have...
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The Digital Age: The Age of Distraction
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we continue our discussion of stress and its effects on our relationships in the Digital Age. We begin with a quote from James Olds, a professor of neuroscience,...
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The Digital Age: Life, Uninterrupted
At the end of our potentially alarming post on Wednesday, we promised to give you some ideas for avoiding the clutches of distraction in the Age of Distraction. Here are some thoughts that may help you...
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The Digital Age: Will We Ever Learn?
Last week on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we talked about the ubiquity of multitasking in the Digital Age and its contributions to our endlessly distractible, reliably forgetful, and...
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The Digital Age: The First Duty of Love is to Listen
As we promised in Monday’s post on The Gottman Relationship Blog, today we bring you a short and sweet overview of Dr. Gottman’s skills for Active Listening*. For much more on the subject, make sure to...
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The Digital Age: The Workplace
The internet’s frequent intrusion into our personal lives is often fueled by (and blamed on) the unremitting demands of the workplace. Many people consider this inevitable – and these days, they may...
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Special Announcement: The Johnson-Gottman Summit
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming on The Gottman Relationship Blog to make a special announcement: The Johnson-Gottman Summit is now available for pre-order on DVD! Celebrated as "the...
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The Digital Age: The Times, They Are A Changin'
With the coming of The Digital Age, our perspective on human connection has been transformed. The tech-revolution’s steadily increasing influence on our patterns of relating (or not relating) to each...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching
To continue our last chapterof our series on relationships in the Digital Age, we’d like to introduce you (or reintroduce you!) to the basics of Emotion Coaching, Dr. Gottman’s five step program for...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching & Empathy
In last Friday’s posting on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we promised to dive into a deeper explanation of Emotion Coaching, reviewing strategies that you can use to build bonds of trust, respect, and...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching & Empathy Part II
When it really comes down to it, empathy is about understanding someone else’s emotions. The capacity for changing perspective and sharing another’s experience vicariously, as if you were in their...
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The Digital Age: 3 Reasons I Am A Terrible Emotion Coach
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we are thrilled to invite back Zach Brittle, LMHC, who we featured as a guest blogger back in September. You can read his posting on relationships in the Digital...
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The Digital Age: Emotion Coaching Step II
As Zach Brittle mentioned on Wednesday, the second step of Emotion Coaching, according to Dr. John Gottman, is to see your child’s expressions of emotion as opportunities for teaching and intimacy....
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The Digital Age: Slowing Down
In the Digital Age, kids may learn quick and easy relationship skills online, building rudimentary, occasionally fulfilling connections using virtual technology. The development of these online...
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The Digital Age: Bringing Baby Home
Today on The Gottman Relationship Blog, we are excited to feature a guest posting from Gottman Bringing Baby Home (BBH) Educator Kim Brickwood. A native of Australia, Kim is the Director of Path 2...
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