“Kids have a hole in their soul in the shape of their dad.” —Roland Warren, past president of the National Fatherhood Initiative. I’ve been dealing with the father wound my whole life. I was five years old when my father took an overdose of sleeping pills and was committed to Camarillo State Mental Hospital,
I’ve been a marriage and family therapist for 54 years and I have a confession to make. I have been divorced twice, which used to cause me considerable shame. I wondered how could I be taken seriously in wanting to help save other people’s marriages if I couldn’t take care of my own? I decided
When asked what he thought a psychologically healthy person should be able to do, the famed psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, answered, “to love and to work.” Two simple words, love and work. We all aspire to learn to do them well, but the truth is that too many of us fall short. Like many, I grew
My father was an angry man. His anger was not the kind that explodes in flames, but the kind that simmers and scorches. To those who knew him, he was a kind and gentle man struggling to make a living as writer, but he was doing it in Hollywood during the time when progressive writers,
On the morning of August 29, 2004, the world changed for Rebecca and I believe 2004 will be remembered as the year that things changed for the whole world. Here’s how Rebecca remembers that day: “I was driving to the birth of my nephew Ben. As I was rushing to the hospital, I was
It is apparent to everyone, though many have trouble accepting the reality, that humanity is in grave danger and we face threats to our very survival. A report by The Commission for the Human Future says, “Human activity and numbers are transforming our world. Wildfires, floods, droughts, melting ice caps, large-scale extinctions of plants and
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