When a mother becomes emotionally enmeshed with her adult son, it can sabotage marriages and personal growth. In this real-life story, Barry Vissell explores emotional incest, boundary-setting, and how true love means growing up—for everyone.

In today’s world, family estrangement is more common than ever. Shakespeare’s King Lear provides profound insights into the emotional and ethical complexities of severing family ties—shedding light on the heartache and difficult decisions that come with going ‘no contact.’

Sibling feuds can last a lifetime if not resolved. The Oasis reunion offers an example of how sibling relationships can heal, but what can we learn from it? Discover proven strategies for resolving sibling estrangement, including counseling, conflict resolution techniques, and building emotional awareness. Whether it's high-profile feuds like Liam and Noel Gallagher or personal family matters, healing sibling relationships can lead to stronger family bonds.

Long-distance caregiving presents unique challenges, from emotional stress to managing logistics across time zones. This article explores practical strategies for overcoming caregiving challenges, including building support networks, utilizing technology, and accessing financial resources. With the right tools, distant caregivers can provide meaningful assistance to their loved ones while balancing their own well-being. Learn how to navigate long-distance caregiving with confidence and resilience.

This article explores how different families express emotions. It highlights the contrasting dynamics between two families—one that conceals emotions and another that overtly expresses them. The piece delves into the impact of these differences on family relationships and individual well-being, offering insights into navigating diverse emotional landscapes within families.

This article delves into "Senior Housing Transition Challenges" and "Choosing Senior Care Facilities," providing essential insights for families navigating these decisions. It highlights four major areas where seniors face difficulties during transitions, such as losing independence and adjusting to new routines. The piece underscores the emotional and psychological impacts of these changes, aiming to equip families with the understanding needed to support their loved ones effectively.

When you uncover hidden truths in your family ancestry stories with DNA testing you may learn how DNA testing can reveal inaccuracies and connect you to your heritage.

I feel it is vital for not only men, but also women, to understand the father-son wound, and to know how to heal it.

There are many ways to have a family. All are valid, and each one represents a place on the beautiful spectrum of how families exist. Each one is worthy of writing down for the future to look back upon.

When we descend from people who’ve done terrible things, or from people who themselves have been the recipient of some sort of trauma, this energy carries itself down through our physical DNA and the genetic memory of our energetic DNA, even if we’ve never met these ancestors in person. 

We’re not here, as adoptees, to live someone else’s life. My desire to get to the truth of me and to reignite the light within me has taken me on a transformational journey...

When I was studying for a certificate in counselling, we had to create a ‘genogram.’ This is similar to a family tree, but in addition to recording the names and dates of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of each family member, we were also required to do little biographies on each person.

Adoptees are a diverse, yet invisible community. We live in plain sight, but our adopted status is usually unseen by others.

Discover the positive impact of intergenerational connections on mental well-being. Explore how programs like iGen foster meaningful relationships between young and old, bringing happiness and bridging social divides.

Through repetitive patterns, you experience emotions that your ancestors might have experienced. Emotions are the connecting element between two worlds...

Have you heard of “eldest daughter syndrome”? It’s the emotional burden eldest daughters tend to take on (and are encouraged to take on) in many families from a young age.

Eating together regularly as a family has long been promoted as a simple solution for improving health and wellbeing.

Do you feel that you are living your life in full bloom? Do you too feel as if there’s a ceiling on life that shows up in different ways?

How is it possible to spend so much time with your parents and grandparents and not really know them?

All sibling relationships have their ups and downs, good times and bad. But in a family with abuse, addiction, and mental illness, the relationships are warped by a range of dysfunctional dynamics.

Children raised in homes with abuse, addiction, mental illness, and other traumas typically live in a state of denial. They must continually tell themselves that the terrible things they’re seeing, hearing, and feeling aren’t really happening.

We’re carrying and reacting to a pre-programed template that is not even ours. Life itself throws us enough curveballs daily keeping us busy until we die. The last thing we need is the complication of carrying the unresolved ancestral issues of the past...

Mothering during the pandemic has been covered extensively — from issues of economic hardship, to untenable caregiving responsibilities, acute and ongoing strains on maternal mental health