Navigating Holidays: Imago Style

Ah, the holidays – a wonderful time filled with traditions, warm gatherings, and the joy of reconnecting with family and friends. And while the thought of spending holidays with our own families can trigger mixed feelings of stress and excitement, the anticipation of spending holidays with our partner’s family can stir up a whole range […]

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Embrace Your Crazy Teenager

No matter the circumstances, we cannot keep the madness of the world today out of our teenagers’ lives. The best we can do is help them become strong, confident, and resilient.

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Welcoming a New Baby, a Multi-Generational Perspective

A grandmother’s thoughts: A Leap of Faith My daughter, Alison and her husband, Tom, just had a baby girl. She was born a month premature and is now about 10 weeks old. They live across the country from me and my husband, so I decided that we should relocate for two months to be close […]

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The Ties that Bind Adult Children and Parents

In the complex tapestry of human relationships, few bonds hold as much significance as the one between parents and their adult children. This intricate dance of love, history, and shared experiences can be both deeply fulfilling and profoundly challenging.

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Make Meaning: Are You Navigating the Grief Journey?

Grieving a parent is complex work  As infants, we rely upon our parental figures and caregivers for constant support. We seek them out for food, nourishment, love, and attention. As we grow older, we learn by exploring, expecting stability and availability from our caregivers, as we venture out in the world. Our caregivers are the […]

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How Does it Feel to Be a Housewife in 2023?

My 10-year-old daughter posed the question that, threw me for a loop. She asked, ‘Mommy what is a housewife?’ My eyes opened wide with the look of utter surprise. I took a deep breath and began to explain that a housewife is a married woman who manages the operational functions for the family system from […]

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Should everyone have a therapist? Yes!

What stops you from finding a therapist? Some of my presenting clients (particularly couples) may not be actively “in crisis.” Others did not necessarily have self-identified therapy goals they were immediately trying to reach. Rather, imagine that everyone just had a therapist on their list of helpers, right along-side their hairstylist/barber, mechanic, or babysitter. Unfortunately, […]

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Parenting in the desert not the village

Navigating a world where there’s no room for parenthood. When I moved to the U.S. I knew I was giving up many things for a better career. I would miss the food back home, my former lifestyle, and, most of all, my family. What I didn’t know was that this feeling would resurface years later, […]

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The Key to a Happy Adulthood

Connectedness in Childhood “More than any single factor that we can control, connectedness in childhood is the key to a happy adulthood” says Edward Hallowell in “The Childhood Roots to Adult Happiness”.  He cites a comprehensive study in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Journal of the American Medical Association, 1997.  This study, on […]

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Parenting as a Spiritual Path: The Lessons in a Severed Ankle, a Chipped Tooth, and Stretch Marks

Growing up, I thought that I could only experience the spiritual in religious places like churches or in solemnly recited words of prayer (and only when I was perfectly well-behaved). Once I became a parent, however, my four children taught me that the sacred can surprise me everywhere, often most intensely through the joys and […]

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