Why Apologies Fail
I spent a long stretch of my own life apologizing badly. Not insincerely – badly. I meant every word of it and I still wanted the conversation to end, and those two things were doing battle in the same sentence. It took me years to notice the second one was winning. So when a parent […]
Why Your Kids Don’t Want to Spend Time With You: Five Core Reasons
This subject has hit close to home for me lately. Not in my own house. In the sessions I work in, sitting with parents who are disconnected with their children. Most of the low contact and estranged parents I sit with arrive with the same sentence, and it usually comes out quietly, near the end: […]
Healing Through Language
“This pain is killing me.” I can’t tell you how many times I used to hear these words in my days as a Chiropractor. I would cringe inside for my patients, because although I didn’t have the Poly Vagal Neuroscience training I have now, as I’ve deepened my understanding of how to self-regulate the Nervous […]