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Family dynamics are the ways we relate to each other within a family unit. We all have patterns of behavior—whether positive, negative, or neutral—with our parents, siblings, children, and other extended family members. While each family’s dynamics are different, evidence of healthy family dynamics occurs when all members receive and offer various types of support to each other, leaving everyone feeling safe and secure in their relationships. Healthy family dynamics are fluid and adaptable as each member’s role, responsibilities, and capabilities shift over time. Unhealthy dynamics result in enmeshed, codependent, or abusive relationships, where some members are left with unmet needs or harmful coping strategies. Examining our own family’s dynamics can help us create stronger, safer relationships for everyone we care about.

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Caregiving and Sibling Relationships: Challenges and Opportunities

Providing care for an aging or ill parent can bring out the best and the worst in sibling relationships. Ideally, the experience of caregiving is a time for siblings to come together and provide mutual support to one another.

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The Mental Load of Motherhood

Mothers share their thoughts on the mental load of motherhood—and how they survive the 24/7 job called “Mom.”

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Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

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Interview with Brian Tracy

Brian Tracy is one of America’s leading authorities on the development of human potential and personal effectiveness. Here he fields questions from Michael Sliwinski in this Productive Magazine interview.

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Family Orchards

Inspired by his childhood memories of secret gardens, Rupert Sheldrake suggests a way modern families today could enjoy the same kind of productive outdoor space.

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For Black Families, Neurodivergence Means Challenges—and Endless Opportunities To Redefine Parenting

A diagnosis of neurodivergence can be daunting for Black families, who are often doubly marginalized. Fighting for acceptance is the first step in receiving the support they need.

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Celebrity's Son: Big Connections And Addictions; Ordeal of Moyers Family Underlies a TV Documentary

William Moyers's ordeal helped motivate Bill Moyers's new documentary series, ''Close to Home,'' which explores the nature of addiction. ''It isn't about me,'' his son said. ''It's about thousands of people like me.

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I Was Taught that Therapy Was “Para Locos”—But the Pandemic Pushed Me to See It Differently

Eso es para locos. Esta generación... siempre inventando. These are the words I’d hear anytime I mentioned therapy or mental health growing up.

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Interfaith Twist: What Happened when this Family Raised One Child Jewish, the Other Catholic

Friends thought they were crazy, but this family decided to raise their two children in two different faiths.

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John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist Who Called to the ‘Inner Child,’ Dies at 82

Mr. Bradshaw found fame with books and television shows proposing that emotional and psychological damage experienced in childhood was the root of adult ills.

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