Psychoeducation articles on attachment, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships, and more.
Johann came home from school on a Thursday with mud on his sneakers and a report card in his backpack that he had been thinking...
Read Article →The Virtuoso: Achievement as a Substitute for Being Loved She came in with her curriculum vitae folded in her purse, which she mentioned in passing...
Read Article →The Mirror: Becoming Whoever the Room Needs A man I’ll call Daniel told me in our first session that he was very good at relationships....
Read Article →How the Rose Forms: When the Source of Safety Was Also the Source of Fear There is a particular family photograph I have been told...
Read Article →The Rose: The Pattern of Reaching and Pulling Away at Once She had ended three good relationships in the past six years. Not because the...
Read Article →How the Sentinel Forms: The Unpredictable Parent I want to describe a child’s Thursday afternoon. Not an extraordinary Thursday. Not a day with screaming or...
Read Article →The Sentinel: A Nervous System Built for Threat Detection in Love A woman I’ll call Mara told me that she knew, intellectually, that her husband...
Read Article →How the Island Forms: When Reaching for Comfort Was Met With Contempt A woman I’ll call Sarah described it this way. She said that when...
Read Article →The Island: The Person Who Needs No One (Until the Loneliness Wins) He came in at the insistence of his wife and said so immediately,...
Read Article →How the Empath Forms: The Child Who Learned Their Value Was Their Usefulness A man I’ll call Philip had a mother who cried easily. Not...
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