Divorce is a process NOT an event – my technique to make the transition easier for your children.

Despite divorce being on the increase around the world, parents often feel at a loss when searching for practical support. They also feel overwhelmed, confused, afraid, resentful, or completely frozen in panic about how to handle the changes in their family’s way of life. Sometimes this fear manifests itself as animosity, which turns the whole […]
The Blessings of a Scraped Knee

I was speaking with an anxious parent recently about her anxious son. It reminded me of the phenomena known as ‘dependency conflict.’ ‘Dependency Conflict’ is quite common in Western cultures where parents simultaneous push their children to be independent yet at the same time judge, evaluate, hover & intervene – constantly sending exactly the opposite […]