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The Colors of Grief: Painting the Lines between pathological mourning, ordinary grief, and the many lines between.

Imagine, for a moment, grief as an art canvas. It’s a tableau initially blinding white, then gradually tinged with the colors of our emotions. With every shade of sorrow, the canvas darkens, our hearts heavy with the inky black of loss. But, for some, this grief canvas becomes a haunting masterpiece of pathological mourning, their brushes perpetually dipped in shades

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Some thoughts on parenting…

Is it possible that one of the most difficult jobs some of us face in our lives is at home with our children? The ideal of being a “good mother” or “good father” is a reverberating house of mirrors, that starts from the moment conception, or adoption. Decisions about feeding, sleeping, screens, schools, friends, nutrition, and social skills, all come

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Listening, like a chain of Human connection.

Listening. The more you are truly heard, the more you can hear yourself. The more you feel heard, the more you can listen. It’s a simple concept, and the building blocks of relationships, but it is amazing how quickly relationships can get complicated. Like untangling a fine knotted chain, the complexity of making links to a simple chain is a

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