Meeting notes 3/9/23 (New Freedom, PA)

Clinical side:  Research and experience in the mental health field, preference for family systems and training in early trauma and attachment disruptions, history of developing treatment programs for families navigating parenting a child with early trauma. Olivia presented the idea that we have to...

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Emotional Blindness

Emotional blindness and how it impacts parents parenting traumatized children What is it? Emotional blindness-referenced in D. Siegel’s book, then researched it. Emotional blindness: an inability to identify and describe one’s own and other’s emotions. It’s considered a personality trait that can...

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Our Child’s Inner Voice

“The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice” Peggy O’Mara www.TheSilverPenn.com During a recent search on Pinterest, I stumbled over this quote causing me to stop and reflect on its’ implications for the families in our family based service.  How do we talk to our children? What...

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