Elizabeth Laura Nelson

If you have these four types of friends in your life, they could literally be making you sick. Consider yourself warned and remove these toxic friends!

The elephant in the room is my mental illness. Do my anxiety and depression make me unworthy of love?

Never ask a Libra where they want to go for dinner.

This isn’t Sleeping Beauty. There’s no prince coming to rescue you. What relationship beliefs are standing in your way?

The thing is, when you fight with your partner, it’s your amygdala that takes over. It's the part of the brain that processes fear, and it’s powerful.

Would you really rather not get older?

My whole life, people have been telling me I’m “too much." It's BS.

If you constantly find that you’re rubbing people the wrong way, take a look at this list and consider if you’re doing any of the following seven things.

As a person who writes about relationships for a living, I might be one of the people least in need of all this well-meaning advice, which usually amounts to clichés and can even veer into the territory of outright insults. What I need – what most of us need – is for people to hear me, and to trust me.

Real self-care: Forget pedicures and bubble baths.