Research, Publishing, and the Importance of Rejections
My name is Karl Melvin, and I’m accredited with the IACP. As a therapist, early in my career, I came to specialize in working adults who were struggling with their family in various …
I recently posted about the types of therapy biases experienced by the many estranged people I have spoken to, and this is demontrated in this recent agony-aunt style article a frustrated client shared with me.
The person writing and her …
At this point, I don’t think anyone needs a reminder of how difficult Christmas is for those estranged from family. However, it is worthwhile discussing how exactly this period affects people.
Watch this video discussing the most common challenges my …
Christmas, Estrangement and Difficult QuestionsOne of the hardest social challenges of being estranged is trying to explain the situation to others.
There is so much dense history and complex factors which led to the family situation, that it will feel …
In the last few years, I’ve heard many stories of estranged individuals struggling to find the “right” therapist, having had negative experiences when they reached out to a professional and walked away feeling worse off. This is not true of …
So you would be surprised by many people who, in throes of estrangement, reach out and tell me they feel feel like they are going crazy or going mad.
Maybe they feel like they are over-reacting to situations, maybe highly …
I was reading the book ‘Happiness by design’ by behavioural scientist Paul Dolan and one concept he discovered was the idea of narrative traps…which is when our happiness is determined by societal expectations, such as the car, the big house, …
This is a video I wanted to do last year but never got around to it and now’s as good a time as ever.
So myself and my wife were at a prenatal course last year and there was a …
The decision to reconcile is often an ongoing and tortuous process. This is true at any point of the estrangement but particularly after a great deal of time has passed and all parties are off living their own lives. And yet …