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Relationships

Feeling Motherless on Mother’s Day?

Karena Kilcoyne J.D. on May 8, 2024

Here's how to navigating Mother's Day with love when you've lost your mother or experienced abuse, abandonment, or parentification.

Here's how to navigating Mother's Day with love when you've lost your mother or experienced abuse, abandonment, or parentification.

Mindfulness

We Have Control Over How We React Emotionally

Karena Kilcoyne J.D. on April 30, 2024

Personal Perspective: How I pivoted emotionally and chose happiness.

Personal Perspective: How I pivoted emotionally and chose happiness.

Self-Talk

How I Found Authentic Self-Love

Karena Kilcoyne J.D. on April 9, 2024

Personal Perspective: Loving ourselves can be challenging, especially after trauma. With practical exercises to change our negative thought patterns, self-love becomes easier.

Personal Perspective: Loving ourselves can be challenging, especially after trauma. With practical exercises to change our negative thought patterns, self-love becomes easier.

Trauma

The First Step in Healing My Trauma Was Acknowledging It

Karena Kilcoyne J.D. on March 18, 2024

Personal Perspective: Regardless of my professional success, my childhood trauma left me depressed and anxious for decades. I changed my story and finally paved the way to healing.

Personal Perspective: Regardless of my professional success, my childhood trauma left me depressed and anxious for decades. I changed my story and finally paved the way to healing.

Personal Perspectives

It Took Years to Untangle My Childhood and Rise Above It

Karena Kilcoyne J.D. on February 26, 2024

A Personal Perspective: At a young age, I was the parent, not the child.

A Personal Perspective: At a young age, I was the parent, not the child.