Psychoeducation

We’ve just come out of Invisible Disabilities Week, intended to bring awareness to the fact that many disabilities are not something that are visible to others. Many folks out there struggle with mental health or cognitive disabilities, impacting approximately 23% of US adults each year.…

Suicide is a solution sought to what is experienced as unendurable pain and is absolutely a mental health issue, and an epidemic in the US. AND there are a lot of things that are not about mental health that need to be part of our…

The traditional thinking and models of attachment focus on the relationship between the child and their caregivers. As I’ve mentioned previously, there is also the Nested Model of attachment and trauma proposed by Jessica Fern in her book polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy. The…

     The messages we get around relationships and abuse in our culture can be so very confusing and harmful. We get bombarded with messages about the importance of family, of staying connected and how we only get one family and how blood is thicker than…

   Boundaries don’t fail. We can fail to share our boundaries. We can fail in following through on enforcing our boundaries. But when someone doesn’t like or respect our boundaries doesn’t mean they’ve failed. Just because you feel uncomfortable when setting a boundary or uncomfortable…

Anxious attachment develops when the caregiver is loving but inconsistent and unpredictable. This can happen if the caregiver has serious mental health or substance abuse issue, when they expect their child to meet their needs, or when the caregiver is overly-intrusive or discourage a child’s…