Vicki Larson's OMG Chronicles

Two amazing things happened this weekend — I took part in the Women’s PowerStrategy Conference and it was my dad’s funeral. While those two events are seemingly disparate (while I celebrated my father’s life, I am still mourning my loss), I realized that something joyous happened at both events; a recognition that the stories we […]

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There’s an image we have about marriage, about “two becoming one.” Anyone who’s been married for length of time realizes that’s a bit of a lie. We’re still people with our own needs. In fact, many believe what we experience is a “his” and a “her” marriage. Some 50 years ago, sociologist Jessie Bernard noted […]

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“How would your marriage be different if you had been handed an honest, comprehensive guide on what to expect after the wedding?” That’s the question Sheryl Paul asks in her article “Premarital Wisdom: The Truth About Marriage” in the Huffington Post Weddings section this week.  On the surface that sounds like a cool thing. Really, […]

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We all talk about how “hard” relationships are, and I’ll agree — they can be. But it’s interesting how we often make relationships hard because we don’t see how our own behaviors create dysfunction.    I am observing a relatively new romance. One partner has a lot of long-time friends of the opposite sex, the other […]

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A few months ago, I had a chance to interview Woodacre therapist Louis Breger about his book Psychotherapy: Lives Intersecting,  in which he describes how he contacted former patients after decades to discover if his work with them helped. I was intrigued not only because I love all things psychological, but because I have been […]

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