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You may have noticed that I don’t have client testimonials on my web site, which goes against everything the marketers tell you to do. You’ve...

Dawn: Hi everyone. And welcome to the first ever podcast for You Are Not Your Mother. My name is Dawn Friedman and I’m the owner...

Here are two things that everyone everywhere needs to know about everyone else: People do the best they can with what they know. All behavior...

I’m not a great marketer and so I’ve been reading and following some expert-types to learn how to do it. One of the things they...

It’s the therapy stereotype, right? It’s always the parents’ fault! No wonder then that many of the parents I see in my therapy office come...

We do not raise children to go out into the world and be perfect and build perfect relationships with perfect people. That would be impossible....

A long, long time ago in my parenting (not professional) life, I got in a friendly argument with another mom about whether or not kids...

A couple of years ago there was a lot of noise about that crying it out study, which indicated that “graduated extinction” (which is different from...

As clients we’re vulnerable. It’s on my mind right now because yesterday I met with a colleague and we discussed a couple of situations where a...

I wanted to talk about who could benefit from parenting classes because that person might be you. Anyone who feels like he or she is parenting at...

When I brought my newborn baby son home from the hospital we had a broken TV; it took at least 30 minutes to warm up....

If you’ve got kids, I bet there have been times when you don’t like them very much. Maybe you feel guilty about that but you...

Intrusive thoughts are the unwelcome, uninvited ugly thoughts that skitter through our heads now and then. Everyone has them. Think about a time when you...

Growing up is wonderful; it’s miraculous. New words. New accomplishments and abilities. But it’s also hard and scary and sometimes it’s sad. It’s not just...

Anxiety loves to tell lies. Anxiety likes to stand behind you and reinterpret the world in a negative way. Someone tells you that they like...

Sometimes when you’ve won an argument you can help the person who lost save face by letting them get the last word in. I think...

It’s that time of year again. October leads the march for the next three months when sweets become one of the central issues for many...

I see you over there, avoiding friends, avoiding Facebook (or staying up late reading Facebook like a punishment, because you think you deserve to feel...

Wouldn’t it be great if we could neatly close out chapters in our lives before moving onto the next one? You know, resolve all relationship...

So many of us have internalized the idea that if we want something or if we need something it is, by definition, unnecessary. If we want it,...

I did all the things that gentle parents do. I co-slept, breastfed forever, carried them everywhere. I never spanked, tried (and failed) not to raise...

If you’ve had a complicated childhood chances are you’ve been told you’re too sensitive. Maybe you’ve been called a worry wart, a crybaby, impossible, annoying...

Children are always changing; it's what they're supposed to do. Just when you think you have this parenting thing figured out, they'll change.

I have been thinking lately about scarcity and how it drives hunger.