Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While ...

Imagine navigating through a forest, where each tree represents a family, and its roots represent its members that span back many generations. The roots, entwined and deep, hold the shared experiences ...

Negative parenting patterns rarely start with the current generation. They are usually hand-me-downs from stressed, overwhelmed adults who were once stressed, overwhelmed kids. The promise of breaking ...

Dear Eric: My family moved out of state to cut ties with my husband’s verbally and emotionally abusive mother. One brother did the same. The last brother engaged in a horrific divorce, succumbed to ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

Every family carries certain patterns communicating, coping, reacting, loving that are silently passed on from generation to generation. Some patterns are beautiful warmth, loyalty, humor, and ...