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 each family is different, certain patterns appear repeatedly across diverse backgrounds and ...

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family's emotional landscape and secure love, safety and belonging. They helped us make sense of ...

We live in a world where everything is always someone else’s fault, participation trophies are second nature and we utter subtle whispers of disdain. Ownership of the suit we live in and wear, also called the skin, should be worn with pride and one foot in front of the other because this is ...

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family's emotional landscape and secure love, safety and belonging. They helped us make sense of ...

Freedom (n.) “power of self-determination, state of free will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance;” “exemption from arbitrary or despotic control, civil, liberty” — Etymonline.com, 2025 Freedom in its true form is an idea sown in the fabric of the imagination and adopted in ...

The voice within a person is always trying to get their attention to guide them into unknown avenues of potential that the mind cannot yet fully comprehend. The question of who you are is elementary, or at least a conversation that should be visited often, and the starting point for this ...