When Your Child Becomes an Adult
One of the most challenging, yet often overlooked family transitions is learning to relate to your son or daughter as an adult rather than as a child. Both parents and adult children often discover that although life has changed, their relationship patterns have not.
Michelle Traudt, LPC-A
Aug 5
When Anxiety Misreads the Situation
Human nature, especially when feeling anxious or threatened, tends to look outside of ourselves. We look to other people and other circumstances to explain what must be causing our distress. We also assume many things without really stopping to question those assumptions. This way of interacting with our problems becomes automatic. It’s often how the brain works when it feels unsafe.
Michelle Traudt, LPC-A
Jun 16
Same Fight, Different Day: The Pattern Beneath Your Marriage Arguments
In marriage, it can feel like we fight about everything—and sometimes about nothing that really matters. Many couples are surprised to find that it’s possible to have a fairly intense conflict over something small and ordinary. In most conflicts, the process matters more than the content. Even when the subject seems simple or non-essential, a lot of distress can get stirred up in our nervous system. Once that happens, the conflict escalates and we become dysregulated.
Michelle Traudt, LPC-A
Mar 17