Co-parenting after separation: how to stay a team when you are no longer a couple
How to separate the partner role from the parent role, which agreements hold, what parallel parenting is in high conflict, and what never to do to your child.
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How to tell your children that their parents are separating
A concrete script for a hard conversation: what to agree on beforehand, what your child absolutely needs to hear, and how to say it to a preschooler, a schoolchild and a teenager.
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When a teenager goes quiet: how family therapy opens the conversation
When a teenager's silence is a normal part of growing up and when it signals distress: why they go quiet, what we parents get wrong out of worry, and how therapy opens…
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The empty nest: when the children leave and two strangers remain
The children leave and two strangers are left in the house. Why the grief is legitimate, why the relationship can even improve, and what you need for that.
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Parenthood as a transition: who am I now that I am a mother or a father?
The birth of a child is also the birth of a parent. Why you may not recognise yourself, why a dip in couple satisfaction is not a catastrophe, and what both mean…
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Attachment and parenting: how the pattern passes to a child
A child does not inherit your pattern but what happens between you in their distress. Why transmission is not fate, and why good enough is a measured standard.
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Children and divorce: what the research really says about what protects them
The research is clear: what harms children most is conflict between their parents, not the divorce itself. Read what really protects a child and how to break the news.
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