Dr. Linda Miles

About Dr. Linda Miles

Dr. Linda Miles is deeply committed to helping individuals and couples achieve rewarding relationships. She is an expert with a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, and has worked in the mental health field for over thirty years. She has been interviewed extensively on radio, TV, and in newspapers and magazines. Find more relationship ideas and relaxation techniques on her web site and in the award-winning book she co-authored, The New Marriage: Transcending the Happily-Ever-After Myth, and Train Your Brain: For Successful Relationships, CD. http://www.drlindamiles.com.

Creating Conscious Relationships

Do you ever recall walking into a room and immediately feeling the heavy, lingering negativity after a couple has had a fight?How can couples learn to manage those powerful emotions that can be generated between them?To create a conscious...
Date Posted: November 21, 2006

Who is a Compassionate Listener?

It is difficult to become a good listener who both validates the pain of the other, while maintaining the ability to look at themselves. Each person must listen compassionately to themselves and each other.Within many relationships, rather than...
Date Posted: November 21, 2006

Fairytales Are The Frosting, Not the Cake

Fairytales play an important part in childhood development, because they give imaginary solutions to real fears. For example, Jack and the Bean Stalk, is about a little boy conquering a big person. When Jack gains power over the giants, i.e.,...
Date Posted: November 21, 2006

It Is Always About Me, Isn't It?

A characteristic of childhood thinking is the child’s assumption that whatever happens “is all about me.” The tendency of children to blame themselves for their parents’ difficulties causes them great pain, and if this kind of...
Date Posted: November 21, 2006

Finding Mr. or Ms. Perfect

Children’s limited experience of life makes them believe that their parents are always good and that adults can always be trusted. Carried over into adult life and love, this way of thinking forms the psychology of the first summit—the...
Date Posted: November 21, 2006

8 Keys to Improving Self-esteem for Teenage Girls

Experts on facial expressions are not fooled by the big smiles of teen-age girls. It is evident when a girl is truly happy inside, because she has a “Duchienne smile.” With this smile the involuntary muscles around the eyes are wrinkled.
Date Posted: November 20, 2006

Mommy Whisperer

Using simple techniques Moms can learn how easily they can whisper relaxing phrases to their babies during pregnancy, delivery, and post-partum. Dr. Linda Miles, inspires and instructs Moms, using a practical, proven effective method, which calms...
Date Posted: November 20, 2006

Reading Your Partners Mind

When Ann came to see me, she was in the process of counting how many times in the past year her husband had turned on the television when she wanted to talk to him—not that she had ever told him she wanted to talk.
Date Posted: November 20, 2006

Stop Dragging Your Past into Present Relationships - Part One of Two

Expressed as a two-way bridge between childhood and adulthood, magical thinking is a developmental stage during childhood that serves a very important function in the process of creativity and imagination.
Date Posted: November 20, 2006

Eight Keys to Heat Up a Cool Relationship for Valentines Day

1. CELEBRATE VALENTINES DAY EVERY DAY: Love is a practice. Say I love you in the morning and at night... more is better.Share with one another the things that give you the greatest pleasure and help one another's dream come true.
Date Posted: November 20, 2006
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