When Parents Overreact to Their Child's Thoughts and Behaviors, the Child Feels Isolated and Unsafe.
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Why Some People Die Long Before They Stop Breathing
We Can All Choose to Sit Around and Wait For Death, or Live Until We Die.
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Preserving Dignity in a Dying Loved One
Maintaining a Dying Loved One's Dignity Is Achieved Through Caring For the Entire Person
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Anxiety Lives in the Space Between Who We Are and Who We Want People to See
If the Gap Between Who We Are and Who We Want People to See Is Wide, Anxiety Has Room to Breed
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The Affair “Bubble” Is A Place of Deception and Delusion
When relationship crises strike, some people sneak away into a secret fantasy world that is all sty;e, and no substance.
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The Little Known OCD Subtype that Could Kill
Obsession with thoughts of one's own death does not always constitute suicidality.
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Caring For a Caregiver
When I was 9 years old, my grandfather suffered a debilitating stroke from which he would never recover. As is often the case in families, my mother, the oldest of three children, assumed responsibility for his care while he lay in an infantile state two floors above mine. Everyday before dawn, she bathed, fed, and medicated him while my grandmother watched her daughter assume a role she never should have played. After the early morning shift, she resumed her role as married mother of three before tending to my grandfather’s nightly needs before finally sleeping for a few hours before the cycle repeated. My mother was no longer afforded a…
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How Infidelity Transforms Death Anxiety Into Death Denial
Many of us are in a life stage characterized more by “lasts” than “firsts.” We are working at our last jobs before retirement, occupy the last homes in which we will ever live, and might be in the last romantic relationships of our lives. It’s not so much that there are no remaining “firsts”, but there is little thrill in first social security check, or first colonoscopy. When we sense Winter is coming, and Spring has passed, awareness of mortality triggers anxiety we didn’t experience in our youth. As we age, awareness of death increases in many ways, most powerful being the death of our parents who we once perceived as immortal. Aging also…
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Dear Parents, Stop Scapegoating Your Kids
When Children Are Scapegoated as Identfied Problems, Their Self-Esteem Takes a Hit
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What the “Temperature” of Children’s Aggression Suggests
All Children Will Exhibit Aggression at Some Point, but Certain Contexts of Aggression Indicate Possible Childhood Behavioral Disorders...
