Processing Fear and Promoting Connection

Processing Fear and Promoting Connection

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Kind and Firm: Hold a Boundary Without Losing Connection

We were told boundaries and connection sit on opposite ends of a dial. Slide toward strict and you get control but lose warmth. Slide toward gentle, and you get closeness but lose the floor. So we spend our days inching back and forth, guilty when we're too hard, exhausted when w ...  Show more

Case Study: What If You're Already Enough?

Most of us carry a quiet belief that we have to be everything for our kids. If the other parent isn't showing up the way we wish they would, we tell ourselves it's on us to fill every gap. To be the nurturer and the rough-and-tumble one. To make up for what they didn't get, so th ...  Show more

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