Do You Know How to Be Yourself?
In the introduction to Free from Lies, Alice Miller describes a survey she commissioned in 2002 that asked 100 mothers at what age they thought “they might begin impressing the necessity of good behavior on their children by giving them…
“I Love You” is a Complete Sentence
This post is for each of my children: Luke, Bridget, Henry, Sam, Jack, and Stella. And it is the most important thing I have ever written. Three-and-a half years ago, I began a healing journey that would shake up all…
Love is Not the Answer
Assuaging fear is, because we are all filled with it, even when—especially when—we tell ourselves that we’re afraid of nothing. In fact, the farther back in the closet we shove the fear, the more powerful it becomes, because it grows…
