Posts Tagged ‘emotional support’

Digging Into Emotionally Supportive Marriages and Obesity

December 6, 2025 — “Supportive human relationships, particularly high-quality marital bonds, may regulate obesity risk through oxytocin-mediated alterations in brain and gut pathways.” This is the bottom line on a fascinating exploration of the biological relationship between emotionally supportive marriages and obesity published this week in Gut Microbes. This finding is not entirely a surprise. Nor is it the […]

Listen, Kids

The Elegant Power of Listening

January 8, 2023 — It’s over. Our decorations for the holidays are down and most everyone, if they weren’t back into normal routines last week, will surely be back on Monday. In many ways, this resumption of normality offers a degree of comfort. But it also leads us into a month of challenges for many people. A time when […]