How to Deal With a Toxic Parent When You Are Already an Adult

How To Deal With A Toxic Parent

Most advice about dealing with a toxic parent stops at the practical: set limits, protect your energy, consider therapy, repeat as needed. Those tools are real and worth knowing. But they manage the relationship from the outside without touching the harder thing underneath, which is what to do with the part of you still waiting … Read more

Toxic Family Members: Why the Right Question Isn’t What Kind, But Who

Toxic Family Members

Not every family that causes pain is toxic, and not every family member who hurts you is doing it on purpose. The word gets used loosely, which makes it harder to know what you are actually dealing with when something in your own family feels wrong. What I watched over two decades in hospice work … Read more