
What’s Actually Happening When Some People Appear “Resistant” to Treatment
When a loved one seems to fight every suggestion, skip appointments, or sabotage their own progress, it is easy to feel hopeless. Clinicians may label

When a loved one seems to fight every suggestion, skip appointments, or sabotage their own progress, it is easy to feel hopeless. Clinicians may label

In our work, we meet adults who are capable, thoughtful, and, on the surface, managing well. They may be parents or professionals, or they may

Introduction: Why an Ancient Object Still Speaks Across millennia, cultures, and belief systems, few symbols have retained the psychological gravity of the Ark of the

Families often encounter behavioral health in a moment of fear. A child is unraveling. A partner is disappearing into relapse. A parent is terrified that

When we grow up in families where emotional neglect, chaos, enmeshment, addiction, or inconsistency shape the air we breathe, we learn quickly how to survive.

How Parent–Adult–Child quietly shaped CBT, parts work, trauma therapy, and inner-child healing. When you zoom out on today’s therapy landscape – CBT, DBT, schema therapy,

We need to say this plainly, because avoiding the issue has cost too many lives: Untreated mental illness and addiction kill people every single day,

(and how we can gently re-parent ourselves from the Adult ego state) During parts of the 1960s and 70s, Transactional Analysis (TA) was everywhere: therapy

Parental alienation is a complex and often misunderstood dynamic in which one parent intentionally or unconsciously manipulates a child to reject the other parent, undermining

Over the past several years, a powerful wave of truth-telling has emerged from adults who once lived through the harsh realities of the so-called “troubled

Healthy families are built on two fundamental pillars: connection and attachment. When these are strong, family members feel safe, seen, and valued, which fosters emotional

Safety is a fundamental prerequisite for healing within any family system, particularly for members who have experienced emotional abuse. The pioneering work of Judith Herman
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