Home More Enabling Behaviors: The Punishment and Forgiveness Cycle [wpseo_breadcrumb] Enabling Behaviors occur in painful but predictable cycles such as the Punishment/Forgiveness Cycle outlined below. This cycle is a variation on the Drama Triangle described...
Home What is a Healthy Relationship? What is a healthy relationship? Is it really something we just fall into if we are lucky? Some people imply that they think so when they say things like “I am just unlucky in love.” The truth is that we have to put some...
Home What is a Healthy Teenager? What makes a healthy teenager? – NOT an easy question to answer, but here’s my best attempt… The Healthy Teenager… Has been a happy child Has access to at least one healthy, well-adjusted parent Has available...
Home The Formula for a Happy Child What makes a happy child? This is my favorite question to answer for several reasons… I am a grandpa who loves to make kids happy It’s the most important question – kids are our future Happy kids grow up to be happy...
Home The Five Drivers & The Safety Net The Five Drivers, play a big role in the development of the invented self and managing the impressions of others. The first five counter-injunctions listed below are known in TA as The Five Drivers because they...