Adult children choosing to cut ties with parents or to keep their interactions very limited is a growing and painful trend. Parents often describe feeling as though their children are rewriting their... Read more »
Have you ever found yourself constantly worrying about your relationship, needing constant reassurance, or feeling intensely afraid your partner might leave? These feelings are common signs of something called anxious attachment –... Read more »
Experiencing adverse events in childhood, such as abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction, has long been understood to influence a person’s emotional and psychological development. Many assume that such experiences in early childhood... Read more »
As a parent coach for parents of adult children, I hear many stories about not receiving a response or only minimal responses when they text their adult children. They share their understandable... Read more »
Hawes, M. T., Olino, T. M., & Klein, D. N. (2025). Early childhood behavioral inhibition predicts altered social and emotional functioning in early adulthood: An ecological momentary assessment study. Emotion, 25(4), 972–981. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001468 Key... Read more »
Parent-child relationships are often portrayed as inherently loving, but this isn’t true for many adult children. Instead, they endure ongoing emotional harm or mistreatment from their parents that undermines their self-worth. If... Read more »
As a coach who works with parents of adult children, I often hear heartbroken confusion: “She won’t let me in.”“He keeps saying he’s fine, but something’s off.”“She pushes me away when I... Read more »
Thirty-one percent of Americans have experienced adult bullying, according to a Harris Poll survey. Bullying is an attempt to feel powerful and to gain recognition/status at the expense of another. Any type... Read more »
Tense relationships or estrangements between parents and adult children are becoming increasingly common. There’s hardly a day that goes by that I don’t hear about these in therapy with a parent or... Read more »
Perfectionism has appeared in a couple studies as a common cognitive distortion in adults with ADHD. In one case it was the most common1 and in a more recent study, it ran... Read more »