In our romantic relationships, we often find ourselves repeating or attempting to repair the interactional patterns established in our family of origin. According to Bowen's family systems theory, ...

Imagine navigating through a forest, where each tree represents a family, and its roots represent its members that span back many generations. The roots, entwined and deep, hold the shared experiences ...

Every family develops its own unique emotional ecosystem, and within that system, children naturally take on different roles to help the family function and to secure their own place within it. While ...

The blueprint of who we are begins with the genes passed down from our parents. While these inherited traits give us our eye color and height, they can also contain instructions that increase our risk ...

The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family’s ...

Often the dynamics between various family members are not obvious at first. This is becoming ever more complicated as family units keep changing. Families are complex, families in business more so.

In the land of movies and TV shows, dysfunctional families are often in the spotlight where their drama is so exaggerated, that it’s impossible not to notice. However, fictional storylines don’t ...

Negative parenting patterns rarely start with the current generation. They are usually hand-me-downs from stressed, overwhelmed adults who were once stressed, overwhelmed kids. The promise of breaking ...

Editor’s Note: Psychologist John Duffy, author of “Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety,” practices in Chicago. He specializes in work with teens, parents, couples and families. During the ...

Astrological insights reveal that some zodiac signs serve as transformative forces within family systems. Aquarius, influenced by the unconventional Uranus, boldly disrupts established norms, carving ...