Activation: When Someone or Something Activates Old Issues

Over the past few months, I’ve found myself increasingly referring to a situation or person as having ‘activated’ certain issues. It’s meeting someone or experiencing something that makes an up until that point unknown (or dormant or lingering)...

You ARE Allowed to Have Boundaries With Family

Getting married last year was a refresher course in boundaries. If our families had their way, the wedding would have been very Coming To America. Or, yes, even My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. There would have been five hundred guests–all of them ‘aunties’...