Category: FAMILY ISSUES

The Stories That Heal Us: How Modern Therapy Can Learn From The Old Ways

Healing happens in both modern therapy and in indigenous tradition when meaning is restored, when we remember that we are not isolated problems to be fixed but participants in a bigger story. All of which is relevant.

What Might Have Been: The Most Painful Love Story of All

Fear sabotages and it goes about it’s business in a quiet way. It doesn’t scream in our ears, it whispers quiet logic at us. It tells us to wait, to think about it, to be “realistic”. It parades itself as “wisdom”, but more often, it is self-protection.

Therapy Shorts 38: Is There Life After “Love”

This week is about Break Ups.

These posts, published twice per week with a short audio, provide bite-sized wisdom to help you grow and discover yourself. Join me as we investigate the small ways we can bring peace, clarity, and connection into our lives.

Looking at the Concept of Transference: Do all Relationships Have it?

Although it’s commonly believed that transference only occurs in therapeutic settings, it actually occurs in all types of relationships. The unconscious act of bringing expectations, feelings, and experiences from the past into the present is the fundamental component of transference.

When Parents Choose LAT: What Do Children Learn?

While adults may find this arrangement appealing, the picture becomes significantly less clear when children are involved. Adults can rationalize their decisions, justify them as practical, and even find them liberating, but children interpret relationship patterns very differently.