Encouragement for Men
I love men. I love working with men in therapy because they tend to be really receptive and engaged. They take in new ideas and - if the...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jan 30, 2022
- 4 min
The Space Between: Finding Freedom and Connection in Relationship
You know that feeling when you get “triggered?” When someone you thought cared about you suddenly acts like a complete jerk? “Why on...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jan 25, 2022
- 1 min
Your Broken Wing
Here is a visual depiction of how our repetitive conflicts with our partners are always informed by our own early wounding and exiled...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Queer Enough?
Am I queer enough? Trans enough? Nonbinary enough? Gay enough? Bi enough? Pan enough? Am I a woman? What does that even mean? Am I a man?...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
What We Hand Down
Telephone. Hot potato. Musical chairs. Remember playing these fun games as a kid? Games are playful ways for humans to experiment with...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jul 22, 2021
- 2 min
Courage for the Darkness
The darkest corners of our psyches are not inviting. Those crevices where we've stuffed all our secret feelings of worthlessness, shame,...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Oct 1, 2020
- 3 min
What’s your (real) problem?
For those of us who are privileged to not have immediate survival concerns, what is it that we’re struggling with? What causes us to...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jul 11, 2020
- 1 min
Do You Belong?
Did you feel like you belonged in your family as a child? Do you feel seen and understood and accepted as you walk through the world?...
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Family Tree Wellness
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
When Breath = Life
Take a deep breath. Notice what floats into your mind as you take this breath. Maybe you think, “I can’t.” Maybe you think, “I don’t...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
How to be open-hearted in a time of fear
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.” This difficult, wild,...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 22, 2020
- 4 min
Feeling at Home with Feelings at Home
As you “hunker down” and “shelter in place" with your family, everything that’s hardest for you about your kids, your partner and your...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 11, 2020
- 6 min
For New Dads and Partners
Your woman is now a mother. She has changed dramatically and you may feel like you’ve lost her. You have – temporarily. When a woman...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 11, 2019
- 2 min
About LGBTQ Perinatal Mental Health
Thankfully, mercifully, I continue to expand in my awareness of just how magnificently varied we are as human beings. We show up in so...
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