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When the Chicks Begin to Leave the Nest: Thoughts on Empty Nesting and Motherhood

By Andrea Schneider, MSW, LCSW

“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…

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Sex Ed Gone Wrong: Skewed by Abuse and Misogyny

By Ivy Blonwyn

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…

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Damage Done By Parental Alienation

By Richard Zwolinski, LMHC, CASAC & C.R. Zwolinski

Parental alienation.  Finally, it’s accepted that this is a real problem and that it occurs all too frequently.

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Why Can’t I Get Life Insurance?

By George Hofmann

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…

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Long-Ignored Clues of Childhood Sexual Abuse

By Ivy Blonwyn

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….

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The Decision to Have a Child When You Have a Mental Illness

By George Hofmann

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…

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Childhood Injuries Can Be a Warning Sign of ADHD

By Neil Petersen

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…

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How to Be Loving Toward Yourself When You Actually Don’t Love Yourself

By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS

You don’t feel great about yourself, so you assume you shouldn’t treat yourself great either.

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Your True Identity: Coping with Change

By Aaron Karmin

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…

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Siblings’ Vastly Different Experiences and Memories from Growing up in the SAME Family

By Ivy Blonwyn

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…

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Accepting Infertility Gracefully in 2019

By Ivy Blonwyn

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…

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Let’s Explore! The American Academy of Pediatrics Report on Kids and Digital Technology

By Robert Weiss PhD, MSW
Let’s Explore! The American Academy of Pediatrics Report on Kids and Digital Technology

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…

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