Specific Situations
The Emotional Impact on Kids When Parents Divorce/Break Up
A new, in-depth perspective on parental divorce/breakup: how kids can develop harmful, lifelong narratives as a result—and what parents can do to help.
voicing feelings
Specific Situations
Four Fantasies Children Have About Being Adopted
How kids experience being adopted, particularly how their fantasies around their adoption create unhealthy narratives about themselves and their family.
Tools for Understanding
These 3 Defense Mechanisms Can Explain Your Kid’s Behavior
Here’s 3 defense mechanisms that kids commonly use, and which will help parents explain their child’s behavior.
Tools for Understanding, Tough Behaviors
How to Make Sense of Deceitful Behavior: Some Examples
A child’s deceitful behavior often stems from the child’s feelings. Here’s what to do and how to make sense of various behaviors.
Narratives
How to Change Your Own Unhealthy Narratives
We all carry unhealthy childhood narratives that interfere with our adult lives. Here’s how to manage these narratives so they stop creating problems.
Tools for Talking
Using Play Therapeutically, part 1
Therapists help children work through feelings and issues using play therapy, and you can use these tools, too, Here are some guidelines.
