Welcoming the Worst
Internal Family Systems defines our human psychology - our internal system - as constructed of multiple parts. Parts of us hold burdens...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Mar 19, 2022
- 4 min
Grieving As They Grow: Motherhood & Loss
From the moment your baby is conceived, whether in body or mind, a symbiotic relationship is formed. And, at the same time, an...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Sep 6, 2021
- 5 min
The Perfect Mom
Growing up, I lived in the suburbs of Santa Clara, a small city in the Bay Area, and I went to private Catholic School from Kindergarten...
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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
- May 25, 2021
- 3 min
Why do we PUSH through?
As the COVID-19 pandemic begins to wane and things start to open up more, I’ve been thinking a lot about not wanting to go back to the...
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Family Tree Wellness
- May 5, 2021
- 2 min
How to Really Celebrate Black Mamas this Mother’s Day
As Mother’s Day approaches, I wanted to take this time to resurface the systemic inequalities faced by Black mothers in America. Though...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Feb 16, 2021
- 2 min
Job Title: Perfect Mom
(This blog was created to be a tongue-in-cheek accompaniment to a talk we are giving on "Using Internal Family Systems to Heal...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Dec 9, 2020
- 2 min
Rest
Juggling, multi-tasking, too busy, tired, exhausted – if these are the words and phrases you find yourself using to describe yourself, I...
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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
- Aug 4, 2020
- 4 min
Postpartum & Pandemic Parallels - Part 2
As pregnant people move through the months of this pandemic, there is such piercing grief for all they are missing. Commingled with the...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Aug 4, 2020
- 3 min
Postpartum & Pandemic Parallels - Part 1
Most of the new moms that I work with lament a similar refrain: “Will this ever end?” I remember when I was in the throes of early...
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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
- Jul 5, 2020
- 2 min
You Are Trustworthy
At your core there is innocence and openness, a spirited soul that wants connection, acceptance and safety. There is not one thing wrong...
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Family Tree Wellness
- Jun 2, 2020
- 5 min
We Have to Find Our Own Way
I remember the early months of motherhood being full of uncertainty and judgment. Every decision about sleeping and feeding and...
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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
- May 3, 2020
- 3 min
Loss, Ambiguous Loss, Love and Joy… All At The Same Time
As I sit here, in my pajamas, outside of my daughter’s room, clandestinely listening to her perform in a show via Zoom that was supposed...
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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
- 2 min
Mothering is the heart of our humanity
Mothering is the method humans use for setting up crucial components of humanness in our species including: our individual wellness...
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