by Dana Basu, PsyD | Feb 8, 2021 | Parent Mental Health, Trauma
What is Trauma? If you’ve heard of the word trauma before, you might have very specific and intense images that get conjured up along with that term. These might be based on your own experiences, relate to something you’ve read or learned about before, or perhaps stem...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jan 28, 2021 | Marriage, Parent Mental Health, Relationships
Intercultural Relationships: Navigating Different Perspectives Navigating differences in relationships are challenging for all of us, but this is especially true in intercultural relationships. Why do we seem to have so many differences in our assumptions? And what...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jan 27, 2021 | Anger, Attachment, Depression, Guilt, Parent Mental Health
Parent Guilt: What To Do When It’s Warranted Parent guilt seems to be one of those things that just comes with the territory. We are bound to feel it, at least sometimes, as we see the ripple effects of our humanness play out on the next generation. But when is...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jan 23, 2021 | Anger, Anxiety, Coping, Depression, Emotional Regulation, Parent Mental Health, Resilience, Thoughts
How to Get Unstuck Using The Power of Thought Ever had one of those days? Or weeks… or maybe even years? One of those periods of time when everything feels hard as hell. When it feels like the walls are closing in on you and there’s no way out. Most of us have been...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Dec 28, 2020 | Coping, Parent Mental Health
2020, man. If nothing else, this is the year that we have learned just how essential self-care is to our sanity. And, for most of us, we’ve learned it by default… by taking away those habits and seeing what kind of chaos happens as a result. Sounds like a risky...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Nov 14, 2020 | Parent Mental Health, Relationships
My husband and I got into it a few weeks ago… and it wasn’t pretty. Lots of yelling. Lots of anger. Lots of death glares. It was an explosion of emotion. This kind of conflict doesn’t happen very often for us. No doubt we have more than our fair share of bickering,...
