Dr. Joshua Coleman, family therapist and author of When Parents Hurt will be appearing on NBC’s Today Show on Friday, December 21, 2007 in the 8 o’clock hour. Followup note: I watched the segment (video link here). Call me a curmudgeon if you must but I was disappointed that the Today Show didn’t give this…
Author: Ginny
My annual Christmas wish to you
I wrote the following as part of a longer post on Estrangements.com Christmas Day 2004 and have posted it again the last two years. This has become my annual Christmas wish to all my visitors, estrangees and estrangers. Originally written December 25, 2004 About Christmas …. it seems almost inappropriate to wish those who come…
My wishes to you for the holidays.
Reconciliation: An opportunity to be surprised and impressed.
In recent months several friends and acquaintances have been reporting either reconciliations or communications from relatives that may lead to a full reconciliation. I have been delighted for them. Some have reconciled even though they had been assaulted physically by the relative who estranged them. Some had experienced verbal abuse. In each case they were…
Good morning and . . .
Happy Thanksgiving!And a special Happy Thanksgiving to my most frequent visitor! Wishing you a great day!
“On Depression.” Or “don’t sweat the small stuff.”
I know an eighty-something woman who is one of the most delightful people I have ever met. She is funny, witty, smart, well traveled, generous, hardworking, and charming. I want to be her when I grow up! I love this woman.
Invitations to support group have been sent.
A private invitation only support group has been set up and invitations sent to those who inquired. Please check your email for the notice that your invitation will be arriving and for the invitation itself. Just in case you have a zealous spam filter. Ginny
Revisiting ~ When do we stop talking and get on with our lives?
Being someone who suffers from clinical depression on occasion, I find that dwelling on sad subjects triggers my depression. Thus spending a lot of time writing about and talking about sad memories is a dangerously self indulgent exercise for me to do.
Holidays & Estrangement ~ Why I am estranged from my mother.
Here come the holidays, heading straight for us as sure as sure can be. This time of year is a hard one for many, especially those of us who know that our holidays are far from the ideal of the delightful sleigh ride in the snow, jingle bells jingling as we travel to grandmother’s house…
A reminiscence on mental illness in the family and on having had my mother as a mother.
I wrote this piece to offer on another site which was soliciting writing on the topic of mothers and how they shaped our lives. How do we celebrate our mothers? I wrote this piece I offer below and then realized that it wasn’t the right kind of response to that solicitation as well as being…