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Time for Your Fall Energy Assessment!

I’m a Summer person – I love the sun and the warmth and the flowers! And although I don’t like pumpkin spice (or pumpkin anything),

Intergenerational Pain as a Game of Hot Potato

It’s helpful to think of intergenerational pain like a giant game of Intergenerational Hot Potato. Let me explain. When a person has big emotional pain

Locus of Acceptance: Who gets to decide if you matter?

“Locus of acceptance.” I used this phrase with a patient the other day, and I kind of love it. I think I made it up.

How Having a Narcissistic Parent Impacts Our Love Lives

Having a narcissistic parent impacts us for life, until we do the work of detaching from their internalized harm. The first step is often learning

Understanding and Healing from Our Mother Wounds (Part 2)

Our mothers have the power to wound us like no one else. Those specific wounds keep us from knowing our acceptability and worth. I share 7 steps to healing from the pain your mother gave you.

3 Tips to Being a Better Parent

If you want to be a better parent, focus on raising your child to know their worth. After loving them, this is the single best

The Art of Letting Go

I’ve been a therapist for over 25 years, and in my experience, there are two things that humans are extraordinarily bad at: self-compassion and letting

Understanding and Healing from Our Mother Wounds (Part 1)

More than anyone else in our lives, our parents have the power to harm us emotionally. Because they’re our parents, we need them to see

Inner Critic: Professional Bully

Our inner critic is the voice in our head that we often mistake for our own voice. Her voice is recognizable because she has only

Suzanne Manser, PhD, CPsych

Licensed Psychologist