Happiness & Success
Achieving Happiness Through Acceptance of Life
The quest for happiness often leads to frustration, as many fail to realize that the...
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- Written by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Exploring the journey from individual identity to collective consciousness reveals how personal healing can transform familial relationships. By confronting past traumas and recognizing the interconnectedness of family, individuals can achieve a higher state of awareness that benefits both themselves and their lineage. This process fosters a deeper understanding of love and unity within the family tree.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
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.
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- Written by: Joyce Vissell
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.
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- Written by: Nelly Some
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.
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- Written by: Cairelle Crow
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.
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- Written by: Barry Vissell
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.
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- Written by: Cairelle Crow
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.
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- Written by: Cairelle Crow
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.
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- Written by: Michelle Madrid
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...
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- Written by: John Campbell
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.
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- Written by: Stephen Rowley, PhD
Adoptees are a diverse, yet invisible community. We live in plain sight, but our adopted status is usually unseen by others.
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- Written by: Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
Through repetitive patterns, you experience emotions that your ancestors might have experienced. Emotions are the connecting element between two worlds...
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- Written by: Georgia Middleton, et al
Eating together regularly as a family has long been promoted as a simple solution for improving health and wellbeing.
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- Written by: Anuradha Dayal-Gulati
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?
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- Written by: Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver
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.
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- Written by: Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver
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.
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- Written by: Amit Goswami, Ph.D.
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...
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- Written by: Jessica Stern, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Psychology, University of Virginia
Teens with more secure family relationships get a head start on developing empathy, according to my colleagues’ and my new study tracking adolescents into adulthood.
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- Written by: Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies, Brandeis University
Father’s Day inspires mixed emotions for many of us. Looking at advertisements of happy families could recall difficult memories and broken relationships for some. But for others, the day could invite unbidden nostalgic thoughts of parents who have
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- Written by: John Payne
The family blueprint that you inherited was chosen by you because it provided you with opportunities to develop in the areas you had previously selected. Perhaps you wanted to develop the art of forgiveness, understanding, compassion, determination, courage, or any number of...
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- Written by: Mary J. Cronin, Ph.D.
One approach that addresses the challenges families face today comes down to a familiar but often overlooked tradition — sharing stories about older relatives and their experiences.
