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What is the Reason for Parent-Child Estrangement?

I’ve been doing my due diligence lately, dedicating more time to reading the research on parent-child estrangement. I’ve not encountered anything concluding that what’s behind

Carrying the Pain

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks thinking about the pain we carry, and the strategies, both nuanced and blunt, that we utilize to do

Tell Everybody What It Is

Have you ever listened to the radio and felt like the music was speaking to you? As in, it was just the right song, saying just

Shall We Build a Boat?

Take a moment to ask yourself if you’ve done all you can to not only end the ongoing parent-child estrangement, but to cope with it.

Our Most Common Criticism From Within

The social ecosystem that is a peer support group continues to fascinate me. March marked two years of Parents Living After Child Estrangement. I’d run countless groups

Fire, Rain, and Healing

I watched–and listened to–James Taylor fighting emotional distress with his music.   My wife and I saw him perform in Fort Worth last week, and

Tolerating Us

A dedicated member texted me the other day. She’s been reading Mel Robbin’s book The Let Them Theory.  She had a thought provoking question. How would you

I Want Mom

One night in 1995, it felt like my whole world was crashing down, and all I could think of to do in the moment was

Making Sense

Cooper wasn’t the dog I wanted, but the dog I needed. If he was sent to our family by some power greater than I, it

The Measure of Your Worth

PLACE meetings refresh and amaze me. Without fail, we process new perspectives, strategies, and what seem to be never-ending approaches to support.  We had an

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