Partha Nandi MD, FACP
Healthy relationships are essential to our physical and mental well-being, as they provide social support, reduce stress, and help us feel valued. A healthy relationship may look different for each person, but most healthy relationships share common characteristics.
A healthy relationship is one that makes both parties feel good. A healthy relationship is equal – not one-sided.
A healthy relationship is respectful – mutually respectful. A healthy relationship is honest – open communication.
A healthy relationship is loving – affection and caring for each other.
A healthy relationship is safe – healthy boundaries.
According to former Beckman Institute postdoctoral researchers Michelle Rodrigues and Si On Yoon, there is a tie between female friendship and cortisol response. Their study looked at how age and familiarity with those we interact with impacts a conversation, reviewing the effectiveness and stress responses generated from those conversations. Friendship Health Benefits: What Are Friends…
What happens in the brain during a spiritual experience? New research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that humans do indeed have a spiritual region in the brain. The study showed that spirituality resides in the periaqueductal grey (known as PAG). This centralized location is also where the brain conditions fear, altruistic behaviors, and unconditional…
Throughout our lives, nearly all of us will have a sexual encounter with another person. As Individuals, we feel attracted to people of the opposite or the same sex. Friendships occur, and sometimes it will lead to an intimate connection that becomes sexual. To do so is all perfectly natural, and it is how many…
A person’s ability to feel and their ability to create, is intrinsically linked. The more empathetic the person, the more likely they are to think creatively, which actually makes a ton of sense.
People who practice yoga know that it is a self-loving and self-nourishing activity. Not only do you get physical health benefits but the benefits of general well being. A regular yoga practice can do wonders to nurture your most important relationship, the relationship with yourself. As you heart and happiness grows, you will start to…
Understandably, people always want to know how they can have a good, solid relationship that withstands the test of multiple decades. Researchers dedicate their life’s work to better understanding human psychology in order to help people maintain better relationships. While many studies reveal “good communication,” “common interests,” and “frequent sex” to be “the most important…
In working with patients of all types of conditions and diagnoses, it’s always comforting to see them hand in hand with their significant other through the thick and thin of it. Not only because I know that they are receiving the support they need, but also because I know that they are benefiting their health…
In my practice, as I have helped and coached patients through bettering their health, I find that most people share a common belief. When it comes to the subject of their health and symptoms, my patients expect me to talk about their diet, physical activity, mental health, medications, and other similar subjects. And I do….
The relationship just ended and he/she was not the right one and you’re so D-O-N-E. The stages of shock, sadness, anger, relief, or whatever you were feeling have come and gone and you’re secretly thinking that you will never date a person who has THAT quality ever again. It doesn’t matter if the relationship was…
