Showing posts with label family secrets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family secrets. Show all posts
Friday, March 16, 2018

How Your Perspective About Your Parents Changes Over Time

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Like most people, your perspective about your parents will probably change over the course of your lifetime.  Whether your parents are still...
Monday, August 22, 2016

Fear of Abandonment: Leaving Your Relationship Because You're Afraid of Being Abandoned

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Fear of being abandoned is one of the most common reasons why people come to therapy (see my article: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment ).  For...
Monday, August 8, 2016

Mourning the Death of a Father You've Never Known

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I've written several articles about mourning and grief, including:  Coping With the Loss of a Loved One: Common Reactions   Holding Onto...
Friday, April 26, 2013

Movies: Discovering a Father's Secret Life After His Death

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I recently went to see "Before and After Dinner With Andre", a wonderful documentary about actor and director Andre Gregory, which...
Saturday, February 9, 2013

Overcoming Your Emotional Blind Spots

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Emotional blind spots are often aspects of ourselves that we're unable to see, but other people, especially people who are close to us, ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

When "Family Loyalty" Gets in the Way of Your Psychotherapy Sessions

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"What's said in this house stays in this house" is a phrase that many people heard as children when they were growing up, usua...
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Toxic Family Secrets

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Did you grow up in a home where there were toxic family secrets? Toxic Family Secrets Here are a few examples of typical secrets in a dysfu...