Aoption Loss: When Grief is Suffocated
Adoption Loss: When Grief is Suffocated When someone we love dies, grief can feel suffocating. The fact that we will never talk or touch the person...
Adoption Loss: When Grief is Suffocated When someone we love dies, grief can feel suffocating. The fact that we will never talk or touch the person...
Adoptee Reunion: In Praise of Cousins I am on vacation. Why am I writing a blog on a much needed vacation? Because I just had a...
Ambiguous Loss: Living with the Pain of Uncertainty Before I was a therapist, I had not heard the term ambiguous loss. I know now that I...
New Year: Rest, Reflection, and Maybe Resolutions A new year and the end of the holiday intensity has arrived. For decades, I worked in retail so...
Home for the Holidays: The conflict of expectations vs. reality Are you going or have you already been home for the holidays? Maybe the family is...
Is there something that happened in your past that you cannot stop thinking about? An incident or relationship that continues to feel deeply sad, shameful,...
Pride in These Political Times Pride is a time of celebration. A time to recognize resilience and proudly be out in the world. In 2000, Bill...
Mother's Day Gratitude and Grief Depending on your relationship with your mother, Mother's Day may bring authentic feelings of gratitude, more complicated feelings, or both. If...
Winter is coming. Season change and the holidays. Symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) generally show up around the end of October and stick around...
Uncovering Your History is Your Right In Georgia, SB64 is a bill that would allow adoptees over 18 years of age access to their original birth...
Burned out? Create change. I am a therapist because of burnout. In my early 40's, I quit my job. I left behind a career that I...
Saying "Sorry" Is a Brave Move: My wife picked me up from work the other day and had a song waiting to play for me. She...