You promised yourself you would not raise your children the way you were raised. And yet here you are, hearing your mother’s words come out of your mouth, feeling your father’s distance settle into your bones...

The most effective parenting intervention isn't a technique. It’s reparenting and healing yourself. That’s it. That’s the technique. In many of my clinical sessions, mothers ask me for tools, the right...

September has always felt like a month of new beginnings. We get new backpacks, new teachers, new classrooms, new routines, and new opportunities. We spend a lot of time talking about how...

While on a recent car ride, I was listening to the radio, 92.5 FM to be exact, when I heard an alarming piece of news stating that the Kids Help Line was being used in the wee hours of the morning...

Some losses are easy for the world to recognize. Others happen quietly: a friendship ends, a relationship changes, or someone who once felt at home becomes a stranger. We’re often encouraged to move on...

It is a Tuesday morning. I am crouched over my husband's groin with my reading glasses on, forensically examining the surgical stitches covering his penis. We have been married for nine months. My...

After a breakup, the temptation to seek attention from someone new can feel like a shortcut to feeling wanted again, but distraction is not the same as healing. A dating sabbatical can create the space...

Youth-serving professionals rarely get the luxury of long, unhurried conversations. The most meaningful moments of connection happen in the margins: a hallway pass, a locker room, two minutes before...

It was my last appointment of the day. I was in session with a young father who had been working for months, trying to understand his kids so he could speak “childrenese” more fluently. On this particular evening...

In my twenty-five years of working with families across six continents, I have learned that the hardest conversations are rarely about therapy or behavior plans. They are about genetics, tradition, and the...

Clinical Hypnotherapist and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Specialist Lisa Forsberg takes you inside the room, demystifying what trauma bonding work in hypnotherapy actually involves and why it works when other...

Most couples don't have a communication problem, they have a nervous system problem. But while we keep working on our communication, the same arguments keep running, taking us further from...

I thought I was taking my daughter shopping. I was wrong. I was taking her somewhere we could slow down. Last week, I walked into Fierce Deer Jewelry in Sauble Beach with my daughter...

You did the responsible thing. You went to couples therapy after the baby came and everything started falling apart. You learned about “I statements,” active listening, and fair fighting rules. And yet...

Teenagers are often described as moody, impulsive, or difficult. But the choices that seem small right now, how they speak to themselves, respond to stress, and use their attention, may be quietly...

Before I became a mother, I was successful. I had built two six-figure businesses. I was independent, driven, capable, and very good at figuring things out. If there was a problem, I solved it. If I...

Sarah has been a nurse for fifteen years. She has held countless hands and comforted countless families. But during the pandemic, she was ordered to keep a dying man's wife from entering his room...

From a post-Jungian perspective, it may be more useful to imagine the psyche not as a collection of traits that we either possess or do not possess, but as a field of potentials. In each of us, there is a seed...

There's a particular kind of pain that comes from wanting someone who keeps pulling away. You reach out. They go quiet. You try again, more carefully this time, more thoughtfully worded, at a better moment.

Every youth-serving professional has had the moment: a teen says something sharp, dismissive, or alarming, and your reaction is out of your mouth before your brain has caught up. Afterward, you replay...

Have you ever tried to forgive someone, only to feel that doing so would minimise what they did? Forgiveness does not require you to deny the wound, excuse the behaviour or restore unsafe access. It...

For generations, conversations about divorce often began with a familiar financial assumption: the husband earned more, while the wife was more likely to be financially dependent. That picture no longer reflects...

For most of my life, I thought my childhood was normal. When you are raised in an abusive family, you do not know you are living inside dysfunction because dysfunction is all you have ever known. Chaos feels like...

Marriage today looks very different than it did a generation ago. In many households, both spouses work. Women increasingly serve as primary breadwinners, business owners, executives, physicians, attorneys...