Send us Fan Mail A child screams, threatens, breaks things, or lashes out and suddenly the whole household revolves around preventing the next blow-up. That can look like “a bad kid” from the outside, but I’m interested in the harder question: how did this child learn they have to create a crisis before anyone responds? I walk through a common avoidant fami ... Show More
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When Childhood Enters Love. What could possibly go wrong?
Send us Fan MailChildhood doesn’t stay in childhood. We carry it straight into our friendships, our romantic partnerships, and eventually our own parenting, often without realizing it. Kim Lee Jardin, adolescent psychotherapist, unpacks how avoidant parenting shapes the internal ... Show More
20m 9s
Sep 13
A Family Organized Around Absence
Send us Fan MailA family can look stable from the outside while quietly revolving around one missing center: a parent’s emotional participation. When that absence becomes the organizing force, everything shifts. Hard conversations get postponed, feelings get minimized, conflict s ... Show More
22m 26s
Sep 2023
Stoic Meditation To Calm Your Mind Before You Act
Nerves and overthinking often arrive just before you need to act. This short guided meditation uses a few Stoic ideas to settle the mind: what is in your hands, what is outside them, and what the next useful action is. Use it before a hard conversation, a piece of work you have b ... Show More
8m 36s
<p>Learning about the avoidance attachment, <br/> <br/>to<br/> <br/>be one of the hottest topics. This episode helps us to uncover everything we need to know about our Avoidant Attached partners.</p><p><br/></p><p>Feel free to share and comment.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="htt ... Show More
