Excerpt from Compassionate Child-Rearing: An In-Depth Approach to Parenting by Robert Firestone, Ph.D. It is vital for parents to respond as real people to their children, rather than role-playing or acting patronizing, strategic, or phony in their interactions with them. It is impossible for parents to “learn how to talk to their children” in a… Read more »
My life’s work as a psychotherapist has focused on the problem of resistance. In my study of people’s resistance to change, I was deeply perplexed by a seemingly paradoxical phenomenon: the fact that most people consistently avoid or minimize experiences that are warm, successful, or constructive. I observed that most of my patients tended to… Read more »
Resolving the Trauma You Didn’t Know You Had
Most of us wouldn’t use the word trauma when telling our story.
Avoidant Attachment: Understanding Insecure Avoidant Attachment
The way that parents interact with their infant during the first few months of its life largely determines the type…
Emotional hunger is not love.