Fixing Families

Tools for walking the intergenerational tightrope

Robert Taibbi L.C.S.W.

What Stops You From Doing What You Want to Do?

What keeps you from doing what you want? Here are the 8 most common suspects—and tips for identifying them and getting them out of your way.

The Examined Life: 7 Questions

What does it mean to have an examined life? Questions to help you begin the process

After an Argument: The Right Way to Make Up

Disagreements occur in any relationship. The key to making up is circling back to solve the problem and learning the lessons it can teach you.

Why You Get Obsessed with Your Past

Our past has many faces, is always reshaped by the present, and is sometimes frozen and haunting us.

Apathetic? 4 Sources, 5 Solutions

Apathy is living in a world of grayness where nothing really matters, nothing is important. Four common sources and ways to break out and step up.

Anger? Maybe It’s About Abandonment

Anger can be about entitlement and control, but often in close relationships it's about fear of abandonment. A look at the dynamics and a pathway to change

Conversation First-Aid: Balancing Questions and Statements

The fine art of communication includes the art of balancing questions and statements. Questions tend to raise anxiety, statements lower it. Tips on how and when to use each.

The Art of Quitting: When and How to Move On

Quitting — be it a job, relationship, or personal goal — is rarely easy. Here are guidelines on how to do it right.

Solving Problems: 5 Strategies for Putting Them to Rest

Problems are in the eyes of the beholder. But most problems are not about finding solutions but about managing emotions. 5 common obstacles and 5 strategies.

Have You Left Too Much of You Behind?

Over time our lives become more narrow; parts of ourselves get pushed to the side; we are not living the life we envisioned. Time to take inventory and develop a plan. Some tips

After a Loss: How Do I Protect Myself?

Relationship losses can be traumatic. When they are, we seek safety and develop a plan to protect us from feeling the pain again. Some tips on navigating these difficult times.

How to Talk: 8 Tips for Doing It Right

Having productive conversations is not a matter of personality but of skills. Here are 8 tips to help you get started.

Pulling Back? Withdrawing? 5 Possible Reasons Why

Pulling back and emotionally or physically withdrawing happens to all of us from time to time. Here are five common reasons why and how to handle them.

Where Do You Get Stuck Running Your Life?

What can't you do? Where do you get stuck effectively running your life? the 5 common emotional obstacles and tips on how to overcome them.

How to Break Bad Habits

The key to breaking bad habits is not white-knuckled willpower, but being aware of what holds the habit in place and mapping out substitutes.

Five Reasons You Get Angry

Trouble managing your anger? Here are five common causes and their solutions.

Relationship Trouble? Go Bold, Not Timid

When problems flare in your relationship, it's easy to try and lay low, to calm the waters. But this is an opportunity to step up, get things on the table, stop going on autopilot.

6 Stages to Empowerment

Going from being victimized to becoming free and empowered is a often a long and difficult multi-step emotional and physical process. Here are the common stages and evolution

Boundaries: Where Do You Draw the Line?

Boundaries: Some folks are too rigid and inflexible, others are too soft and accommodating. How to find draw the lines that are just right for you.

Time to Put Your Childhood Demons Behind You?

Everyone has baggage from the past that haunts or handicaps them in some way.

How to Be More Spontaneous

Many of us who tend towards the routinized or cautious would like to be a bit more spontaneous. Here's tips on how to get started.

Time to Leave Your Therapist?

Therapy is a different kind of relationship but a relationship none-the-less. Like other relationships it's good to periodically step back and see how well it is working

Self-Critical? Time to Lighten Up on Yourself

Self-criticism can erode your self-esteem, keep you constantly anxious, sap you of any of life's rewards. Time to calm those scolding voices.

Time for a You 2.0?

It's all too easy to go on auto-pilot. Maybe it's time to re-evaluate and update your life's software. Tips and tools

Managing Life’s Traumatic Events

The effects of trauma are unique and often subtle, but the healing process following its own logic.

Do You Build or Discover Your Life?

You can approach to your life as a builder, blueprint in hand, or a discoverer, where you see where a path leads you. Qualities of each, and a possible middle ground

Managing Your Life in a Dysfunctional Relationship

Dysfunctional relationships, whether they are filled with anger or addiction or mental illness, often create a flood of contradictory emotions within you. Tips on how to navigate.

10 Questions to Assess the State of Your Relationship

Before you marry, make that serious commitment, or just want to assess where are as a couple, here are 10 questions to ask yourself and each other

The 3 Most Dangerous Topics in Relationships

Sex, money, and kids—the three power issues in relationships, the ones that cause power struggles and acting out. How to navigate them and use them to help you define your needs.

Lying in Relationships: 3 Steps to Making It Stop

Lying is always destructive to relationships. The causes and ways to stop it.

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