I have a confession to make. I believe in magic! Yes, yours truly, whose practices are grounded in evidence-based engagements and interventions, the man who
I was honored to speak to the clinicians at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation today, especially as a graduate of the Hazelden Betty Ford Graduate
Imagine being an 11-year-old boy and having your childhood shattered after being abandoned by both your mother and father. The carefree days spent in rural
I met the B. family after the mother (Mary) reached out to me once she read my memoir, Parallel Universes . She emailed sharing that
I met 29-year-old Melanie at an adoption event that she attended with her adoptive parents. We met in a social setting, and I shared that
I was honored to have kicked off the 2023 Haymarket Center Spring Workshops with the presentation: Family of Origin Separation Trauma and Addiction – Care
One of the most challenging aspects of growing up with developmental trauma is having to unlearn certain beliefs—beliefs that might’ve served us at one point,
I once again had the opportunity to present to Dr. Samantha Wilson‘s class at the Medical College of Wisconsin titled Adoption and Foster Care: Considerations
My beautiful, sweet mother died last week at the age of 90 years old. She passed while I was on a plane on my way
I was relinquished at birth, then adopted into a new family at the age of one-week old. I entered this world without the safety net
ANNOUNCING: A NEW PARTNERSHIP, A NEW HOPE Click here to read an introduction I wrote to the Adoption Constellation. I have the honor of collaborating
Addiction and Adoption Constellation Support Group Meets every other Tuesday at 5:30 pm PST, 8:30 pm EST Register Here As you know from
From a very young age, most people strive to belong to a group. Whether it’s their immediate family, peers, or people with similar interests, we
It’s hard to not make it sound as if it’s not my ego that needs stroking, but when I think about my work as an
For many of us the real new year starts in September. This is the time when kids and young adults go back to school, when
Recently, I experienced a profound personal loss. The details are not important as they are private, but this was the loss of the greatest caliber
“The butterfly effect is the idea that small, seemingly trivial events may ultimately result in something with much larger consequences – in other words, they
What every adoptee/ relinquishee wants you to know is that we are not all the same. We have all, however, gone through trauma, whether we
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