Offering evidenced based coping tools nested in expressive arts (swing by to pick up your child’s weekly brown bag project, or ask us to deliver) and relational work, these fun meetings will be on Tue…
One of the tools we’ve been trying to use, is Amy Banks’ idea of Positive Relational Moments. In her book, Wired To Connect, Banks defines PRMs as moments you felt “safe and happy in another person’s …
Outdoor therapy offers an opportunity to connect with each other and nature while we work. You can set the pace, and choose from several locations. The goal is to get our bodies moving a little bit in…
You are here. You are not responsible for carrying us anywhere else. There are few things that cultivate more hopelessness and helplessness than pretending a moment isn’t what it is. Be where you are.…
Covid-19 has created an anxiety stew that even the most relaxed parents can’t avoid. When kids catch on to the fear it becomes an even bigger struggle to keep a semblance of normal life. Here are some…
This isn’t the time to implement your dream of recreating Little House on the Prairie, unless that comes easily to you and helps all of you feel better. Reassess frequently, and if what you’re doing i…
It is difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a contagious calm without filling your own cup. Even as we isolate, we need each other.
Without connection, it’s easy for our fear to grow as exponentially as the Covid-19 infection rates.
A Growth Fostering Relationship is marked by the Five Good Things. Coined by Jean Baker Miller in her transformational book, Toward a New Psychology of Women. These are the qualities of a relationship…
As our 2019 Relational Summit grows nearer, we are excited to make a call for proposals for Works in Progress for our annual event on September 19-22. Relational-Cultural Theory has long had a…
Our second annual Relational Summit happens this September, here in Bloomington, Indiana. Preliminary schedule includes a poster session, Thursday evening, some in-depth RCT explorations on Friday…
No matter how much confidence she exhibited while offering home remedies for infant constipation and baby food recipes, she struggled with uncertainty. The matriarchal totem is full of mamas making mi…