I recently read Peggy Orenstein’s book Girls & Sex then attended a workshop she hosted for Bay Area parents about the changing landscape of adolescent female sexuality. (Side note: This is exactly the type of hot pink, bold front cover books that...
All relationships can experience gridlock when talking about a difficult topic. Relationships, whether it be a couple, friendship, parent-child, or family system, tend to have a familiar dance that plays out in communication and conflict. For example, a common dance...
One of the main issues people come into therapy wanting help with is communication; whether it is between two spouses, a parent-child relationship, an entire family system, or even an individual needing help in expressing themselves. Some of these complaints may sound...
“Sometimes, when my mom goes to bed,” the thirteen-year-old boy whispered as he leaned in to me, “I watch porn.” He giggled with titillation. When in college, I mentored this thirteen-year-old boy. When he told me about his porn use, I felt...
In my previous post, I wrote about the importance of talking to your teen about porn. Here are four tips to help facilitate the talk. 1) Have a continual conversation with your kids about sex. Unfortunately for many youth, their first exposure to...
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