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Coping as a Parent When Your Teen is Unkind: Building a Bridge of Understanding
Adolescence is a period of intense growth and change, and both parents and teens may struggle to navigate their evolving roles and emotions. Instead of letting unkindness drive a wedge between you and your teen, let's explore some strategies for coping and building a bridge of understanding in this difficult situation.
Understanding Enmeshment: A Path to Healing
In the journey of healing from emotional trauma, it is essential to shed light on the concept of parental enmeshment. This intricate and often challenging dynamic can manifest within the parent-child relationship, impacting an individual's emotional well-being well into adulthood.
Breaking the Silence: Finding Hope and Support in the Face of Suicide
Suicide is a complex and deeply distressing topic that affects millions of people worldwide. Whether you are grappling with suicidal thoughts yourself or you have been impacted by the loss of a loved one to suicide, it is important to remember that you are not alone.
Understanding the Karpman Drama Triangle: Breaking Free from Unhealthy Patterns
The Karpman Drama Triangle illustrates the roles people often take on when caught in harmful relational dynamics. When in conflict, individuals move around this triangle. The triangle consists of three positions: rescuer, victim, and persecutor.
Preparing Adolescents for College: A Guide for Parents
Many students are preparing to head to college this month! If you're a parent of an adolescent, it's never too early to start thinking about preparing them for college. The process can be overwhelming, but with the right approach and mindset, it can be an exciting and fulfilling journey for your child.
The Burden of Perfectionism: Why Pursuing Excellence is Healthier for Your Mental Health
Explore the difference between pursuing excellence and perfectionism, and how recognizing this difference can have a profound impact on our mental health.
Expanding Your Healing Journey with Brainspotting
Expansion Brainspotting builds upon the foundation of traditional Brainspotting by integrating mindfulness, visualization, and guided meditation techniques.
Embracing the Future With EMDR Future Template Work
EMDR Future Template Work is one of the many brilliant applications of EMDR therapy. It allows individuals to not only process past traumatic events but also create a positive and empowering vision for their future.
Embracing Self Esteem and Self Compassion: A Journey Towards Healing
Explore the contrasts between self-esteem and self-compassion, and how embracing both can lead to healing and personal growth.
Nurturing the Couple Bubble: Managing Thirds Together
In the journey of love, couples often encounter various challenges that can strain their connection. It's not uncommon for one or both partners to feel like a third wheel at times, struggling to maintain a sense of togetherness and harmony.
PACT Therapy: Nurturing Secure and Lasting Connections
PACT therapy, developed by the renowned therapist and researcher Stan Tatkin, combines attachment theory, developmental neuroscience, and arousal regulation to support couples in creating secure-functioning relationships.
Healing from the Past: Nurturing the Hearts of Adult Children of Sex Addicts
The topic of sex addiction and the impact it had and continues to have on now adult children of sex addicts often remains hidden in the shadows. We know that the impact of growing up in such an environment can be profound, but we also want you to know that you are not alone.
Understanding the Difference Between Codependency and Betrayal Trauma
Codependency and Betrayal Trauma may seem similar at first glance, but they actually represent distinct experiences that require different approaches to healing. It is critical to shed light on the difference between codependency and betrayal trauma to help you navigate your path towards healing and growth.
Why Nonverbal Communication Matters
Nonverbal communication encompasses all the ways in which we communicate that aren’t spoken or written. And they are just as important.
Am I Suffering From Betrayal Trauma Or Codependency: Does It Matter? Who Can Help?
Navigating a difficult relationship with a partner who struggles with addiction or infidelity can be overwhelming and confusing. It's common to feel lost amidst the various terms and definitions surrounding the emotional trauma that has surfaced in your relationship.
Why Your Attachment Style Might Be Behind Your Relationship Sabotage
There are four main attachment styles, but not everyone fits neatly into one. Depending on the circumstances in which you were raised, you might have a bit of two or three styles. The good news? They aren’t necessarily permanent.
The Impact of Parental Invalidation
Parental invalidation is a form of emotional manipulation. What makes it worse is that such abuse often happens unintentionally.
4 Ways to Engage Conflict in a Healthy Manner
Disagreements are inevitable. Therefore, one of your top priorities as a couple is to improve how to handle such conflict. Having a fight is not a sign of dysfunction. Being unable to handle an argument in a healthy way typically is.
When Actions Speak Louder Than Words: The Power of "I Am Sorry"
"I am sorry" itself may not be enough to repair the damage caused. It is in the actions that follow those three words where the true healing begins.
What is Alexithymia? Understanding and Navigating Emotion Distress
Alexithymia is a psychological phenomenon characterized by difficulties in recognizing, understanding, and expressing emotions. People with alexithymia may find it challenging to identify and articulate their own feelings and the emotions of others. This can result in a sense of emotional detachment or disconnection.