Why are so many adult children cutting off their parents? The answer may be more complicated than either side wants it to be. In response to a recent Wall Street Journal article, LCSW Sarah Benitez-Zandi explores social media, therapy culture, boundaries, trauma language, changing family expectations, and whether our growing emphasis on individual well-being has come at the expense of healthy interdependence.

Two people can grow up in the same family and remember their shared history entirely differently. Does reconciliation require agreement about what happened, or can parents and adult children acknowledge each other's experiences without abandoning their own? Part Five of Breaking the Silence explores accountability, emotional validation, boundaries, and what it really takes to rebuild a relationship without recreating the one that brought you here.

Have you ever understood exactly where a pattern came from, but still found yourself repeating it? This post explores why insight alone is not always enough to change trauma patterns, how the nervous system can hijack the rational brain, and why cycle breaking requires compassion, accountability, regulation, and embodied practice.