Suspected Sexual Abuse: How to Talk with Children and Adolescents?
Suspected Sexual Abuse: How to Talk with Children and Adolescents? As parents, it is crucial to find the right balance between the need to protect our children and warn them of dangers, and the need to raise them with basic trust and confidence in the world and in people. It is important to establish healthy […]
Eating Disorders in Adolescence
Adolescence is a time when many aspects of our lives change at once: our bodies, our emotions, and our relationships with ourselves, friends, and family. Amidst these transformations, our relationship with weight, appearance, and food can also begin to shift. These changes can trigger a range of intense emotions: confusion, stress, fear, and a constant […]
The Stigma Surrounding Mental Health
If you are dealing with a mental health challenge, you have likely heard comments like: “You’re just being lazy,” “You’re just doing it for attention,” “Why can’t you just get over it?”, “You’re overreacting,” “It’s all in your head,” or “Everyone has it hard sometimes, why make such a big deal out of it?” These […]
Anna’s Diary
I want to share a secret held deep within my body and my heart… I have an eating disorder. In truth, I hardly know anyone who doesn’t struggle with some kind of “disorder.” But this one is particularly cursed because even when it seems to be gone… it still lives and breathes inside of me. […]
Depression During Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression
Pregnancy and childbirth are periods filled with every imaginable sensation, emotion, and thought. The arrival of a new baby is a life-altering event, perhaps more so than almost any other. It is a change that encompasses every area of our lives, whether it is a first birth that brings the transition into parenthood, or subsequent […]
Relationships After Childbirth: When Our Connection Evolves Along With Us
After childbirth, life is transformed. Our routines, our bodies, our sleep, our priorities and our relationships, all undergo a profound shift. Amidst the love, excitement, and new meaning, it is also common to experience difficulty, distance, and a sense that the connection isn’t what it used to be. Many of us are surprised by these […]
When There Is No Support System: Parenting Without a Safety Net
A “support system” is something we hear about constantly in the context of pregnancy, birth, and parenthood. Close family, available friends, someone to lean on when things get hard. But the truth is, not everyone has that network. Perhaps it was never there, perhaps it faded over the years, or perhaps life circumstances have left […]
Social Exclusion and Bullying: What to do?
Background, Concepts, and Data Social boycotts and bullying are acts of violence. These are complex social phenomena that often develop gradually. In the early stages, the harm may be almost invisible, such as consistent ignoring, a lack of response, or quiet exclusion from social groups. These processes can escalate into severe emotional distress, overt harm, […]
Economic Abuse
Sometimes, it can take time to realize that we, or someone close to us, are in a relationship involving economic abuse. In many cases, the beginning of the relationship seems promising; the courtship phase is often characterized by generosity and grand gestures. However, once the relationship is formalized or after marriage, the dynamics change. Unlike […]
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence, violence within the family, in the place that is supposed to feel the safest and most protected, can happen to anyone, regardless of social status, age, gender, or marital status. It can happen to all of us, no matter who we are, where we come from, or how strong we may appear on […]