If you're reading this, chances are you didn't go looking for this topic — it found you. One day you had a relationship with your son or daughter, and the next you're staring at a silent phone, replaying every conversation, wondering what you ...
I have experienced the kind of quiet that lives in the house of a mother whose adult child has pulled away. It isn't peaceful. It's the quiet of a phone that used to buzz and doesn't anymore. The quiet of a group text you're no longer copied on. The ...
Have you felt the silence that shows up after you finally put something down? Image courtesy of Pixabay Maybe it was the rescue pattern with your adult child — the late-night texts you used to answer at 2 a.m., the bailouts, the way you'd ...
For the longest time I thought the hard part was learning to let go. I thought that once I figured out how to stop rescuing my adult children — once I stopped answering the 2 a.m. calls with my credit card already in hand — the rest would fall ...
Last week I asked you what you were carrying that might not actually be yours. The response was overwhelming. Women wrote back about adult children in crisis, about ex-husbands who still occupy too much space in their nervous systems, about ...
