Keeping Family Bonds

Navigating Sibling Rivalry

Navigating Sibling Rivalry

Sibling rivalry is a normal part of growing up. It often starts when a new baby arrives, and the older child suddenly has to share your attention. It can continue throughout childhood and even into adulthood. But why does it happen, and what can you do about it?

Love and Divorce

Love and Divorce

WHEN THE STINGING THREAT OF DIVORCE becomes a harsh reality, the sacred terrain of marriage can freeze over into an icy battleground of pain and confusion.

Everything dedicated, worked for and believed in stares back with little to no recognition. Untold truths spill out, stripping away every illusion and expose an ugliness which cannot be unseen. The torrent of emotions which deluge mind and soul can sometimes feel like suffocation.

For the child who must cope with this crisis, divorce is worse than death. When goodbyes are said at the grave, he or she lives with the memory of someone who can no longer engage in the physical realm of our lives. But in the crossfires of divorce, while mom and dad are saying farewell to matrimony, the child’s greatest need is to…