Your Child’s Life Story

Over the past several months I have been working with Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads on how to support child development away from addictions. I had the delightful experience of co-writing an appendix with them for their book, Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense...

Learning Feelings

Sometimes we have experiences that impact us, but we have difficulty putting words on it. In fact, some conceptualizations of trauma essentially speak to the lack of verablization as being a driving component of trauma’s tendency to haunt us. In fact, there is a...

Perfectionism

It’s exciting to have a vision of how things should be, or how they should look. It can be very frustrating when they don’t work the way we imagine. Especially when it comes to the stuff we make. For kids, the gap between what they are capable of...