“Motherhood inextricably weaves growth and loss together from the moment of physical separation at birth to every milestone passed”.- Madeline Levine As his senior year began, I knew. I…
Teaching children about human sexual relations is probably the hardest part of being a parent. Some parents are too embarrassed to look into the eyes of what was their innocent…
Parental alienation. Finally, it’s accepted that this is a real problem and that it occurs all too frequently.
If I die tomorrow, my family is going to face some financial hardship. Oh, I tried to get life insurance. I wasn’t able to. I have a long history with…
He always looked at me with condescension, disapproval, contempt. Always. There was the constant scent of disapproval whenever I was in his presence, coupled with his plentiful criticisms of me….
I’m 55 years old and I have an 8 year-old daughter, which is crazy enough. But getting to this point, being a parent with a mental illness, was a journey…
When I was 12, I casually drove a sharp implement into the back of my hand. I didn’t even notice until I looked down and there was a lot of…
You don’t feel great about yourself, so you assume you shouldn’t treat yourself great either.
A stream, from a far-off mountain, passed down through the countryside, until it at last reached the sands of the desert. Just as it had crossed every other barrier, the…
Recently, the DailyMail published an excerpt from America’s self-styled ‘first supermodel’, Janice Dickinson. You may remember her as the hyper contestant in Season 16 of Big Brother House who bragged that…
Full Heart, Empty Arms was originally started to address infertility and all the sadness, pain, relationship issues and self-esteem issues whirling around not being able to have children. In the…
In October, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a technical report entitled Children and Adolescents and Digital Media.[i] In this report they write: “Over the past decade, the use…