Gratitude for Your Dysfunctional Family Builds a Growth Mindset

Gratitude for Your Dysfunctional Family Builds a Growth Mindset

Choose to be a warrior during the holidays and always. We all have our own distinct story and define “dysfunction” in our own way, as it impacts each of us differently. Whatever the dysfunction is and to whatever extent, letting it have power over you and sustain...
What to Do When Parents Don’t Meet Your Emotional Needs

What to Do When Parents Don’t Meet Your Emotional Needs

12 ways to cope, heal, and thrive. The societal belief is that children and parents should accept each other for who they are “no matter what”, should forgive each other “no matter what”, and should learn to get along “no matter what.” For some children this is...
Parenting With Emotional Intelligence

Parenting With Emotional Intelligence

An Aspect Of Parenting That’s Too Often Overlooked. An eight-year-old child was murdered by her father. I got flooded with calls from parents who were concerned about explaining the death to their children. They couldn’t avoid it because details of the death were...
Gaining Emotional Intelligence by Being in the “Yuck”

Gaining Emotional Intelligence by Being in the “Yuck”

I had a patient who was concerned that he wasn’t relaying to me all of the information that he needed to in order for me to understand him and thereby effectively help him. He described how he felt more comfortable writing his thoughts and feelings rather than...