Fixing Families

Tools for walking the intergenerational tightrope

Robert Taibbi L.C.S.W.

Relationships: The Curse and Cure of Becoming More You

What is often driving relationship problems is the need to individuate—to be more of the person you now are.

How to Keep Chronic Problems From Taking Over

Life is filled with problems but not all problems are created equal, and chronic problems pose unique challenges.

Feeling Stuck or Restless? Think How, Not What

When we feel stuck or restless, our tendency is to tweak what we already do. But the key is not changing the content of our lives, but instead changing how we run them.

The Challenges of Being a Part-Time Parent

For parents away from home for days at a time, it's hard to keep connected, and easy to feel lonely or resentful. Tips for being there when you're not.

Can You Accept What You Don't Like About Your Partner?

Every intimate relationship involves accepting behaviors that you don't like. But acceptance is not about resignation, but an active choice. Guidelines for reaching true acceptance

8 Questions to Measure Your Life

It's a good idea to occasionally slow down, step back, and take stock of how your life is going. Eight questions to get you started.

5 Relationship Crossroads: Knowing When the Going Gets Tough

Worried about what might be around the relationship corner? Here are the 5 most common challenges couples face.

4 Ways to Handle Relationship Problems: Three Bad, One Good

The way we handle conflicts in relationships is usually a melding of our individual styles. Here are common dysfunctional styles, and suggestions on finding a healthy way forward.

What Do You Hide?

Most of us have something we hide from others — our past, issues we're struggling with now, our true emotions. But hiding takes an emotional toll. Here's how to begin to open up.

4 Key Ways Your Childhood Shapes You

While your childhood is part of you, it doesn’t have to dictate who you become.

Quick Guide to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Cognitive behavioral therapy is the most widely used evidence-based approach to anxiety and depression. Here's what you need to know.

3 Keys to Solving Relationship Problems

A host of difficult topics can arise in any relationship, but there are 3 essential elements for successful problem-solving.

2 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Break Up

Breakups are always difficult, but the challenge is to be clear about what you're breaking up for, and to feel you've done your best to avoid regrets.

Navigating Life's Crises

We all are aware of big developmental crises, but many life events can trigger just as powerful smaller ones. Some of the common ones and how to meet the challenge

Coping With Emotionally Volatile Partners or Family Members

Living with someone who is emotionally volatile is always a challenge. A look at some of the underlying causes and suggestions for management and your own self-care

Return of the Ex: 5 Questions to Help You Decide Next Steps

Relationships end, but may suddenly come back to life. Five questions to help you decide what to do next and not repeat past mistakes.

When Your Partner Comes Out

When a partner suddenly declares him or herself as gay or bisexual, there is loss of the relationship, of the story of your lives. Here's how to cope.

Can't Find a Path Forward? Make One

We all have times when we are unsure what to do and seek a path forward. Often the best one is the one you create and discover by moving ahead.

Managing Anxiety: A 3-Step Approach

The key to successfully managing your anxiety is learning to act in spite of it. Here's an approach to lowering anxiety, rewiring your brain, feeling less afraid in the world.

Relationships and Money: Savers vs. Spenders

Money problems in relationships are often a chronic battle fueled by power, philosophies, resentments. How to find the problem under the problem and find a resolution

Healthy Narcissism

We think of narcissists as being as being at the extreme end of only thinking about themselves, but there's a middle ground. Five tips for a healthy self-focus.

Bad Relationship? 4 Bad Reasons to Stay

It's easy to stay in a bad relationships for a lot of bad reasons. Here are four common emotional obstacles and how to override them.

Who Do You Talk To?

Everyone needs at least one person with whom they can be transparent, but many have no such person. This is how to open up and find what you need.

Feel Neglected in Your Relationship? It May Not Be About You

It's easy to feel neglected in relationships when the other person always seems preoccupied or uncaring. Here are some of the common underlying causes.

When You Feel You Don't Deserve to Be Happy

Many people consciously or unconsciously believe that they don't deserve to be happy. Here, some of the common causes and ways to put the guilt to rest.

Are You Running Your Life, or Is Your Life Running You?

Longstanding emotional, physical, and relationship issues can cause us to give up, to let our problems or others run our lives. Maybe it's time to step up and reclaim your life.

Time For a Holiday Debriefing?

For a lot of good reasons holidays can be tough. Maybe we should step back and decide if it's time to upgrade next year's holidays.

How to Become Wise

We tend to associate wisdom with older age, with hard-earned knowledge from life experiences. Eight suggestions for cultivating wisdom now.

The Art of Making Decisions

Making decisions is part and parcel of being human, but sometimes the process is overwhelming. Five tips for getting off the fence the through to the other side.

The Discouraged Child

The discouraged child is a child who has given up on himself and others. Suggestions on how to help turn these children around.

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