Blog July 16, 2025

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What Is an Open Relationship? Exploring Monogamous, Swinging, and Open Dynamics

July 16, 2025

In today’s world, the question “What is an open relationship?” comes up more frequently than ever before. Relationships are evolving beyond traditional boundaries, becoming more personalized, diverse, and reflective of individual values. Whether heterosexual, homosexual, monogamous, open, or somewhere in between, like the increasingly popular “monogamish” model, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to love, sex, and partnership. Learn the distinctions between monogamish, polyamory, and swinging, and discover the guidelines that make any relationship—open or not—successful. You’ll leave with greater clarity, a deeper understanding of what it means to love authentically, and a renewed sense of personal agency in shaping the relationship that’s right for you.

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How to Reparent Yourself: Healing Your Inner Child as an Adult

July 2, 2025

If you grew up with emotionally neglectful or unavailable caregivers, chances are you often felt like the adult in the room long before you should have. You may have been the one your parent vented to, leaned on, or even turned to for emotional support. As a result, you might have grown up far too quickly, taking on responsibilities that no child should have to shoulder. Now, as an adult or maybe even a parent yourself, you might find yourself yearning to do things differently, to raise your own children with emotional presence and attunement. But how do you offer something you never received?

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How to Find a Good Marriage Counselor: 7 Questions to Ask Before Your First Session

June 23, 2025

Not all therapists are equipped to work with couples. If you’re feeling stuck in your relationship and unsure where to turn, this post breaks down exactly how to find a good marriage counselor, with 7 essential questions to ask before your first session. Get a behind-the-scenes look at what makes couples therapy effective, especially if you’ve been burned by a not-so-great experience in the past.

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“Am I Too Sensitive?” Dating as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)

May 20, 2025

If you’re a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), dating can feel like a high-stakes emotional tightrope. You’re not just picking up on what someone says — you’re absorbing how they say it, what they didn’t say, and how the whole room felt while it was happening.

For HSPs, love often feels intense, overwhelming, and deeply vulnerable. But with the right support and self-awareness, that same sensitivity can become your greatest strength in relationships. In this post, we explore how HSPs can approach dating with more clarity, nervous system regulation, and confidence, and why you’re not too much for the kind of love you deserve.

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ADHD Effects on Marriage: 5 Common Challenges and How to Overcome Them

May 16, 2025

ADHD often flies under the radar in relationships until the cracks start to show. When one partner has undiagnosed or untreated ADHD, it can quietly erode connection, increase resentment, and create an overwhelming imbalance in the physical and mental load, especially for couples raising young children. This blog explores the five most common challenges couples face when ADHD is in the mix and offers tangible, hopeful ways to move forward together. Because healing is possible, especially when we stop blaming, start understanding, and learn to team up again.

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Becoming Who We Are: The Power of LGBTQIA+ Affirming Therapy in Idaho

May 13, 2025

Finding a therapist who truly understands your identity shouldn’t feel like a second job. For LGBTQIA+ individuals and couples in Idaho, Tree City Wellness offers deeply affirming, relational therapy grounded in lived experience, compassion, and clinical skill. Whether you’re exploring your gender or sexual identity, recovering from religious or family-based trauma, or seeking deeper connection in your relationships, we create a space where you don’t have to filter who you are. This is LGBTQIA+ therapy in Idaho that meets you where you are: with warmth, safety, and zero judgment.

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