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The toxic legacy of parental favoritism…
What happens when daddy prefers Steve his first born, over his kid sister Carol ?
Breaking research suggests it’s a lifelong sh*t show…
3 Specific things to focus on when your child goes to school that will optimize their future reasoning skills…
Do you want to give your children a heads up in this crazy world?
New research from Finland says to focus on these 3 things, starting when they enter school.
Research from the UK and USA: 20% of kids are experiencing something psychologically worse than parental abuse…
20% of American kids endure something worse than child abuse. A huge new cross-cultural research in the UK and the USA, reveals the toxic effects 40 years later…
Childhood terror, and memory…
New research suggests there’s a correlation between how you think about your sh*tty childhood, and your overall mental health.
If you’ve got partner issues as a result, well, that’s to be expected…
Got books? How reading for pleasure nurtures your child’s brain and protects their mental health…
Breaking high quality research reports that reading for pleasure will convey massive benefits..enhancing your kids cognitive ability and their future mental health.
Got books?
6 Ways your Strategic Family Therapist is thinking about you when you’re not looking…
Here are 6 ways a Strategic Family Therapist thinks about you when you show up.
What are they looking at and why?
4 Traits your kids may be displaying right now that indicate high intelligence
We learned from a huge longitudinal study that there are 4 traits that children may display that are indicative of high intelligence and a hungry mind…
Attachment, Differentiation, and Estrangement
It was Dr. Murray Bowen (1913-1990) who first suggested that every human being is governed by the interplay of two counter weighing factors… the drive toward togetherness, attachment, and enmeshment… and the countervailing force toward individuality and differentiation.
How household instability as a child made your brain more efficient….and how that can be a problem for you today
“What doesn’t kill me will make me stronger…:
Not if you’re a little kiddo….
How long does a parental estrangement typically last? Wrong question!
How long does a parental estrangement last? 5 years? 10 years? It’s the wrong question… here are the factors that may abbreviate a cutoff…
What makes an adult child cut ties with mom?…Research says you’ll get two different answers…
Estrangement from your mother is a relatively rare phenomena.
The research revealed that only 6% of adult children reported any levels of estrangement from their mothers.
So why does the research read like they all have the same mother?
New research on adult parental cut-off…why do daddy issues dominate?
There’s new research on the nature of estrangement between adult children and their parents… why is daddy so difficult?