I hear you, and Lindsay Gibson's book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, can help you begin to untangle all of that. This...

Yep, another therapy acronym! EMDR -- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy -- is a very different approach than...

IFS stands for Internal Family Systems therapy, developed by Richard Schwartz in the late 1980s. While IFS can be used with families,...

ACT (one of therapy's many 3-letter acronyms) refers to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Originally developed by Steven Hayes in 1982,...

You’ve likely heard of the “flight, fight, or freeze” response to threat. Polyvagal theory describes how these responses are controlled...

Book Review (includes discussion of stillbirth/pregnancy loss). An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination. Elizabeth McCracken’s memoi

This has been a bee in my bonnet for a very long time. The expectation that “good” mothers (generally, as our culture’s usual primary...