When a difficult situation comes up with our children, we sometimes falsely believe we’re responding in the here and now, based on what’s happening in front of us. In reality? We may be overreacting from our own childhood. Learn to distinguish old feelings of the past...

Are you able to visualize your ideal mother? Someone told me that she couldn't do it because when she thought about all the mothers she had ever met, she didn’t want any of these to be her mother - nobody seemed suitable or ideal. Your ideal parent can be a composite...

People tell me that they find themselves in situations that seem familiar to them, that they have experienced before. Or they have the feeling that they are repeating the same experiences over and over again; like a trap door that opens and shuts, preventing them from...

Our parents were our first and primary relationships. How they interacted with us, and us with them, contributed significantly to how our experiences were internalized. This, in turn, shaped our life patterns. However, our parents had parents of their own. The way...

Childhood shapes your life Childhood shapes your life. I think everyone can agree with that statement. How, in what form, and to what extent it does so, however, is not clear to anyone.   An example of how childhood shapes your life An adult young man of normal weight...