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How Family Patterns Shape the Way Parents Respond to Stress
This post explains how patterns learned in a parent's family of origin shape their present-day reactions to stress, and how to interrupt an unhelpful pattern without overcorrecting into a new one.
The Power of Validation: How Feeling Understood Changes Everything
This post explains what emotional validation is, why it changes a person's capacity to manage distress, and how parents can practice it without confusing it with agreement or permissiveness.
Adoption and the Therapy Relationship
An in-depth look at why the therapeutic relationship is the central mechanism of change for adopted children, and how families can support it.