When a loved one has Borderline Personality Disorder it can affect everyone: children, spouses, extended family, friends and coworkers. What is Borderline Personality Disorder? So what exactly is Borderline Personality Disorder and how do we know if our loved one is affected by it? The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-5 (DSM5) defines Borderline Personality Disorder as “a pervasive […]
Tips for Coping With the Death of a Spouse
It is never easy to lose someone we care deeply for and it is especially hard when it is your spouse or partner. When I think of grief I am often reminded of a quote by Vicki Harrison: Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, […]
Food Pushers
Food serves many purposes. Its primary function is biological-to provide nourishment and the basic nutrients to sustain our body and its many functions. Food by its very definition and use is nutrition-it is what we consume to sustain our bodies so we can live. Without food or adequate nutrition we cannot survive. But food has […]
Is my family enmeshed?
Having a hard time seeing where you start and your friend/partner/family member end? During the 1970s, Salvador Minuchen introduced the concept of enmeshment and enmeshed families. Enmeshment is a term used to describe the blurring of personal boundaries. Whether it’s a relationship between family members, partners or spouses, limits simply don’t exist in enmeshed relationships, […]
Parenting Q&A
Some of the questions I receive most frequently revolve around parenting, raising healthy children and “discipline” so I thought I would take a moment to answer a couple of these questions here. Q: With all the stories in the media about kids being molested, should I talk to my 5 year-old daughter? How do I […]