.entry-content .aw-definition-box .aw-term,
.entry-content .aw-definition-box p,
.entry-content .aw-definition-box .aw-kitchen-table {
font-style: normal !important;
font-family: inherit !important;
}
.entry-content .aw-definition-box .aw-term {
font-style: normal !important;
font-weight: 700 !important;
}
7 Hidden Signs You Were Raised by a Borderline Mother
LAST UPDATED: APRIL 2026
BPD in a mother creates trauma that is invisible, confusing, and deeply tangled up with love. Which is exactly what makes it so hard to name. You may have survived by becoming hypervigilant, people-pleasing, and emotionally enmeshed. In adulthood, those adaptations look like chronic guilt, a terror of being abandoned OR too close, and a strange inability to know what you actually want.
Last reviewed: June 2026 by Annie Wright, LMFT
- The Quiet Collapse Behind the Perfect Smile
- The Invisible Nature of Borderline Abuse
- Sign 1: You Are the “Emotional Thermostat” of Every Room
- Sign 2: You Feel Responsible for Other People’s Happiness
- Sign 3: You Confuse Intensity with Intimacy
- Sign 4: You Have a Profound Fear of Abandonment (or Enmeshment)
- Sign 5: You Struggle to Know What You Actually Want
- Sign 6: You Experience Chronic, Unexplained Guilt
- Sign 7: You Are Waiting for the “Other Shoe to Drop”
- What Recovery Actually Looks Like
- Frequently Asked Questions
The Dinner Party You Can’t Stop Working
Enmeshment is a family dynamic characterized by blurred limits and emotional over-involvement, where the child’s individuality is subsumed by the parent’s emotional needs. Unlike healthy closeness, enmeshed relationships lack autonomy and foster emotional contagion. In borderline mothers, enmeshment often serves as a maladaptive strategy to soothe their own fear of abandonment, using the child as an emotional extension of themselves rather than a separate person. In plain terms: your feelings weren’t yours. They were always filtered through hers first.
Imagine you’re at a dinner party. You’ve just cracked a joke, and the room shifts. Smiles, light laughter. But inside, your chest tightens. A familiar, almost unbearable tension coils in your belly. You scan the faces. Is someone annoyed? Disappointed? Did you say too much? Too little? You catch the flicker of your partner’s brow. Was that irritation? You immediately launch into a mental checklist: How do I fix this before it becomes a disaster?
If you're the person in your family line who decided to stop the pattern, my self-paced course Parenting Past the Pattern is the practical work of doing it.
This isn’t a rare moment. It’s your daily life. You hold the emotional climate of every room like an invisible, crushing weight. You’re exhausted. And yet, you can’t stop.
This is the unseen legacy of growing up with a borderline mother.
All client stories are composite vignettes. Names and identifying details have been changed to protect confidentiality.
The Invisible Nature of Borderline Abuse
Grace was a driven architect in her mid-thirties when she first sat in my office in San Francisco, convinced she had no business being there.
“My childhood was fine,” she insisted. “My mother was always there. She paid for college, went to every recital. What trauma?”
But “fine” was the word she used to hide the truth: her mother’s love came with a price tag. Emotional unpredictability, suffocating enmeshment, and a love so intense it was terrifying.
Borderline Personality Disorder doesn’t look like the textbook abuse many expect. The trauma isn’t always physical or overt. It lives in the unpredictable oscillation between idealization and devaluation, in the parent who’s both your savior and your tormentor, and in the emotional labor you were forced to do as a child to keep the peace.
This kind of trauma is often invisible to outsiders because it masquerades as love.
“she loved me but did not like me… She experienced my inner life as a reproach. She thought I was arrogant and especially hated that I valued my own thoughts.”
, bell hooks, cultural critic and author
, Andrea Dworkin, quoted in bell hooks, Communion: The Female Search for Love
Sign 1: You Are the “Emotional Thermostat” of Every Room
You learned early that your safety depended on your ability to detect and regulate your mother’s shifting emotional states. This hypervigilance became a survival skill.
Neuroscientific research (Porges, 2011) explains how children in chaotic, emotionally dysregulated environments develop heightened autonomic nervous system responses, constantly scanning for signs of threat. Your nervous system was trained to anticipate emotional storms before they arrived.
In adulthood, this hypervigilance shows up as emotional labor: you monitor every subtle cue in meetings, conversations, even casual social settings. You feel responsible for adjusting the “temperature”. Soothing tensions, preventing conflict, and managing others’ feelings at the expense of your own.
You’re exhausted but wired to keep going.
RESEARCH EVIDENCE
Peer-reviewed findings that inform this clinical framework:
- Attachment anxiety correlates with BPD traits at r = 0.48 (PMID: 31918217)
- Pooled current GAD prevalence in BPD outpatient/community samples: 30.6% (95% CI: 21.9%-41.1%) (PMID: 37392720)
- Pooled EMA compliance rate across 18 BPD studies: 79% (PMID: 36920466)
- AAPs induce small but significant improvement in psychosocial functioning (significant combined GAF p-values); N=1012 patients in 6 RCTs (PMID: 39309544)
- Largest neuropsychological deficits in BPD: long-term spatial memory and inhibition domains (PMID: 39173987)
Sign 2: You Feel Responsible for Other People’s Happiness
In borderline mother dynamics, children are often told. Explicitly or implicitly. That their existence and behavior directly regulate the mother’s emotional survival.
This creates an inflated sense of responsibility for others’ feelings.
A 2008 study by Hooper et al. on parentification details how children who take on caregiving roles prematurely carry a burden of responsibility that’s developmentally inappropriate. This leads to chronic guilt and anxiety in adulthood.
You apologize constantly, even when you’ve done nothing wrong. You feel compelled to fix others’ moods, believing it’s your job to prevent emotional catastrophe.
Sign 3: You Confuse Intensity with Intimacy
Borderline relationships are marked by emotional extremes. Idealization followed by devaluation. This rollercoaster creates a trauma bond, as described by Herman (1997).
If this was your first experience of love, steady, calm intimacy may feel dull or unsafe. You may unconsciously seek out partners who replicate the intensity, crisis, and relief cycle.
This pattern is rooted in your nervous system’s imprint of what “love” means. A confusing mix of exhilaration and terror.
Trauma bonding is the powerful emotional attachment that forms between a person and an abusive or intermittently reinforcing figure. The result of unpredictable cycles of harm and warmth. The nervous system learns to associate relief and belonging with the person who also causes pain. In plain terms: it’s not weakness that keeps you attached. It’s neurochemistry. The highs and lows wire your brain to crave the cycle, even when you know it’s hurting you.
Sign 4: You Have a Profound Fear of Abandonment (or Enmeshment)
The borderline mother’s own terror of abandonment casts a long shadow.
Some children internalize this as desperation to cling, tolerating toxic relationships to avoid being left alone. Others swing to the opposite extreme. Fierce avoidance, equating closeness with loss of self.
Both survival strategies are two sides of the same coin.
This paradox reflects the complex trauma of attachment disruption, as discussed in van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score (2014). Your nervous system learned that safety meant either clinging or fleeing.
Sign 5: You Struggle to Know What You Actually Want
When your childhood was spent anticipating your mother’s needs, your own desires became background noise.
Many driven women carry this silent confusion. They can manage complex projects but freeze when asked what they want for themselves. Their identity was forged in service and compliance, not authentic self-expression.
This phenomenon aligns with Linehan’s (1993) work on emotion dysregulation in BPD families, where chronic invalidation stifles emotional self-awareness.
Sign 6: You Experience Chronic, Unexplained Guilt
Guilt is the glue that holds the borderline mother-child dynamic together.
Because any movement toward independence feels like abandonment to the mother, children learn to suppress their needs and carry guilt as a default emotional state.
This guilt has been described as a “phantom limb” by Walker (2013). A lingering pain of old wounds that your nervous system still reacts to, even when the original threat is gone.
Sign 7: You Are Waiting for the “Other Shoe to Drop”
In a household ruled by unpredictable mood swings, calm moments are fraught with anxiety.
You never learned to relax into peace because calm was always temporary. A setup for the next crisis.
Your nervous system remains primed for disaster, and you may unconsciously sabotage stability because chaos feels safer than uncertain peace.
A Second Story: Daniela’s Journey Through the Maze
Daniela, age forty-two, was a corporate attorney in Miami who thrived on control and logic. She came to therapy after a panic attack that left her gasping for breath in a courtroom.
“I always thought being strong meant not feeling,” she said. “But I’m tired of pretending. I’m tired of walking on eggshells with my mother, and now I’m terrified I’ll do the same to my kids.”
Her mother’s emotional volatility had shaped Daniela’s life in ways she hadn’t fully acknowledged. She was the family’s emotional caretaker, the “fixer,” but also deeply disconnected from her own feelings.
Through therapy, Daniela learned to recognize the patterns of enmeshment and hypervigilance. She began to set limits, allowing herself to feel anger and sadness without guilt. Her recovery was slow, marked by setbacks AND breakthroughs.
All client stories are composite vignettes. Names and identifying details have been changed to protect confidentiality.
The Cultural and Patriarchal Context of Borderline Parenting
It matters to locate borderline mother dynamics within broader cultural and patriarchal systems.
Women. Especially mothers. Are socialized to be emotional caretakers, expected to absorb and manage family distress often without support or acknowledgment. Patriarchal norms often pathologize women’s emotional expression as “irrational” or “hysterical,” which can exacerbate borderline symptoms.
This cultural context creates a perfect storm: a mother struggling with her own trauma and emotional dysregulation, while society offers little validation or resources for healing. Children raised in this environment inherit not only the mother’s trauma but also the cultural silence around it. Understanding this systemic layer helps dismantle shame and isolation. Your experience isn’t just individual. It’s also political.
When to Seek Professional Help
What Healing Looks Like When You Were Raised by a Borderline Mother
There’s a particular grief that comes with recognizing you were raised by a mother with borderline personality disorder. It’s not the clean grief of losing someone who was fully present and is now gone. It’s the more complicated grief of mourning a mother you never fully had. One whose love was real but whose capacity to hold you consistently was genuinely limited by her own unhealed trauma.
In my work with clients navigating this specific history, I find that healing asks for two things in parallel: understanding the context of your mother’s behavior without excusing its impact, and taking seriously the impact without requiring that she acknowledge it or be different.
The first part. Understanding the context. Means recognizing that BPD is itself almost always rooted in developmental trauma. Your mother was likely not simply a cruel person who chose to harm you. She was a person whose own early wounds left her with a dysregulated nervous system, an underdeveloped capacity for emotional self-regulation, and a profound terror of abandonment that she could not metabolize without the right support. That context doesn’t erase your experience. But it can help you hold your story with a little more complexity than pure betrayal allows.
The second part. Taking the impact seriously without requiring her acknowledgment. Is often harder. It means allowing yourself to name what was genuinely difficult about being parented the way you were, without waiting for her to validate that it was difficult. Validation from a mother with unresolved BPD is often either unavailable or comes in a form that requires you to give something up. Your truth, your timeline, your right to name the injury without immediately consoling her about having caused it.
Vivian, a client who spent years trying to repair her relationship with her mother before beginning therapy, described the shift this way: “I kept trying to get her to understand what those years were like for me. And she would sometimes, briefly. But it always turned into being about her. I finally realized: I can heal whether she understands or not. Waiting for her understanding was keeping me frozen.”
The practical work of healing often includes rebuilding your nervous system’s baseline safety, renegotiating the patterns of self-abandonment that felt necessary in childhood, developing the capacity to tolerate your mother’s emotional storms without losing your own equilibrium, and. Gradually. Reconstructing a sense of your own worth that doesn’t depend on her ability to see you clearly.
Recovery from this kind of relational pattern is possible â and you don’t have to navigate it alone. I offer individual therapy for driven women healing from narcissistic and relational trauma, as well as self-paced recovery courses designed specifically for what you’re going through. You can schedule a free consultation to explore what might help.
{
“@context”: “https://schema.org”,
“@type”: “FAQPage”,
“mainEntity”: [
{
“@type”: “Question”,
“name”: “What are the signs of a borderline mother? Signs of a borderline mother include emotional volatility that shifts without warning, intense fear of abandonment she communicates through guilt or emotional pressure, splitting (treating you as either her beloved child or the cause of all her problems), enmeshment (treating you as her emotional confidante rather than her child), and parentification (requiring you to manage her emotional world). Many of these signs are subtle and may not be recognized until adulthood. Often not until something in your adult life cracks open the recognition. How does a borderline mother affect her daughter? Daughters of borderline mothers often develop chronic hypervigilance, difficulty identifying and expressing their own emotions, a compulsive need to manage other people’s feelings, and a deep internalized belief that love must be earned through performance or emotional labor. Anxiety, people-pleasing, and difficulty setting limits in relationships are common. And all of them make sense, once you understand where they came from. Can a borderline mother love her children? Yes. And this is one of the most painful aspects of growing up with a borderline parent. A borderline mother can genuinely love her children AND simultaneously cause them profound harm. The love is real; the capacity to express it consistently and safely is what’s impaired. This complexity is part of why healing is so difficult. You’re not grieving the absence of love. You’re grieving the inconsistency of it. What is enmeshment in a borderline family? Enmeshment is when the boundary between parent and child dissolves. The child’s feelings, opinions, and identity become fused with the parent’s emotional needs. In a borderline family, it means the child is treated as an emotional extension of the parent: a confidante, a regulator, a mirror. Rather than as a separate person with her own interior life. How do I heal from being raised by a borderline mother? Healing starts with naming what happened. Which is what you’re doing right now. From there, the most effective path involves working with a trauma-informed therapist who understands complex relational trauma, developing somatic practices that help regulate your nervous system, and slowly, carefully learning to trust your own perceptions and feelings again. It is not fast. It is absolutely possible. Why do I feel guilty even when I’ve done nothing wrong? Because guilt was the emotional tax your mother’s system imposed on any move you made toward independence. Her terror of abandonment meant that your “no,” your boundary, your selfhood felt to her like rejection. And she communicated that in ways that got under your skin. The guilt isn’t evidence of wrongdoing. It’s a conditioned response. With time and practice, it does lose its grip. Is it normal to feel like you can’t relax even when things are going well? Completely normal for someone raised in this environment. When calm was always a temporary prelude to the next crisis, your nervous system never learned that peace is safe to settle into. Instead, it treats stability as suspicious. As if you’re just waiting for the floor to drop out. Somatic therapy and nervous system regulation work are particularly effective for this specific pattern. RELATED READING Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide The Narcissistic Mother vs. The Borderline Mother Going No Contact with a BPD Parent Reparenting Yourself After a BPD Childhood The Borderline Father: The Hidden Face of BPD RESOURCES & REFERENCES”,
“acceptedAnswer”: {
“@type”: “Answer”,
“text”: “Signs of a borderline mother include emotional volatility that shifts without warning, intense fear of abandonment she communicates through guilt or emotional pressure, splitting (treating you as either her beloved child or the cause of all her problems), enmeshment (treating you as her emotional confidante rather than her child), and parentification (requiring you to manage her emotional world). Many of these signs are subtle and may not be recognized until adulthood. Often not until something in your adult life cracks open the recognition. How does a borderline mother affect her daughter? Daughters of borderline mothers often develop chronic hypervigilance, difficulty identifying and expressing their own emotions, a compulsive need to manage other people’s feelings, and a deep internalized belief that love must be earned through performance or emotional labor. Anxiety, people-pleasing, and difficulty setting limits in relationships are common. And all of them make sense, once you understand where they came from. Can a borderline mother love her children? Yes. And this is one of the most painful aspects of growing up with a borderline parent. A borderline mother can genuinely love her children AND simultaneously cause them profound harm. The love is real; the capacity to express it consistently and safely is what’s impaired. This complexity is part of why healing is so difficult. You’re not grieving the absence of love. You’re grieving the inconsistency of it. What is enmeshment in a borderline family? Enmeshment is when the boundary between parent and child dissolves. The child’s feelings, opinions, and identity become fused with the parent’s emotional needs. In a borderline family, it means the child is treated as an emotional extension of the parent: a confidante, a regulator, a mirror. Rather than as a separate person with her own interior life. How do I heal from being raised by a borderline mother? Healing starts with naming what happened. Which is what you’re doing right now. From there, the most effective path involves working with a trauma-informed therapist who understands complex relational trauma, developing somatic practices that help regulate your nervous system, and slowly, carefully learning to trust your own perceptions and feelings again. It is not fast. It is absolutely possible. Why do I feel guilty even when I’ve done nothing wrong? Because guilt was the emotional tax your mother’s system imposed on any move you made toward independence. Her terror of abandonment meant that your “no,” your boundary, your selfhood felt to her like rejection. And she communicated that in ways that got under your skin. The guilt isn’t evidence of wrongdoing. It’s a conditioned response. With time and practice, it does lose its grip. Is it normal to feel like you can’t relax even when things are going well? Completely normal for someone raised in this environment. When calm was always a temporary prelude to the next crisis, your nervous system never learned that peace is safe to settle into. Instead, it treats stability as suspicious. As if you’re just waiting for the floor to drop out. Somatic therapy and nervous system regulation work are particularly effective for this specific pattern. RELATED READING Healing from a Borderline Parent: A Therapist’s Complete Guide The Narcissistic Mother vs. The Borderline Mother Going No Contact with a BPD Parent Reparenting Yourself After a BPD Childhood The Borderline Father: The Hidden Face of BPD RESOURCES & REFERENCES”
}
}
]
}
{“@context”: “https://schema.org”, “@type”: “FAQPage”, “@id”: “https://anniewright.com/7-hidden-signs-you-were-raised-by-a-borderline-mother/#faq-schema”, “mainEntity”: [{“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “What are the signs of a borderline mother?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Signs of a borderline mother include emotional volatility that shifts without warning, intense fear of abandonment she communicates through guilt or emotional pressure, splitting (treating you as either her beloved child or the cause of all her problems), enmeshment (treating you as her emotional confidante rather than her child), and parentification (requiring you to manage her emotional world). Many of these signs are subtle and may not be recognized until adulthood. Often not until something in your adult life cracks open the recognition.”}}, {“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “How does a borderline mother affect her daughter?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Daughters of borderline mothers often develop chronic hypervigilance, difficulty identifying and expressing their own emotions, a compulsive need to manage other people’s feelings, and a deep internalized belief that love must be earned through performance or emotional labor. Anxiety, people-pleasing, and difficulty setting limits in relationships are common. And all of them make sense, once you understand where they came from.”}}, {“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “Can a borderline mother love her children?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Yes. And this is one of the most painful aspects of growing up with a borderline parent. A borderline mother can genuinely love her children AND simultaneously cause them profound harm. The love is real; the capacity to express it consistently and safely is what’s impaired. This complexity is part of why healing is so difficult. You’re not grieving the absence of love. You’re grieving the inconsistency of it.”}}, {“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “What is enmeshment in a borderline family?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Enmeshment is when the boundary between parent and child dissolves. The child’s feelings, opinions, and identity become fused with the parent’s emotional needs. In a borderline family, it means the child is treated as an emotional extension of the parent: a confidante, a regulator, a mirror. Rather than as a separate person with her own interior life.”}}, {“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “How do I heal from being raised by a borderline mother?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Healing starts with naming what happened. Which is what you’re doing right now. From there, the most effective path involves working with a trauma-informed therapist who understands complex relational trauma, developing somatic practices that help regulate your nervous system, and slowly, carefully learning to trust your own perceptions and feelings again. It is not fast. It is absolutely possible.”}}, {“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “Why do I feel guilty even when I’ve done nothing wrong?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Because guilt was the emotional tax your mother’s system imposed on any move you made toward independence. Her terror of abandonment meant that your “no,” your boundary, your selfhood felt to her like rejection. And she communicated that in ways that got under your skin. The guilt isn’t evidence of wrongdoing. It’s a conditioned response. With time and practice, it does lose its grip.”}}, {“@type”: “Question”, “name”: “Is it normal to feel like you can’t relax even when things are going well?”, “acceptedAnswer”: {“@type”: “Answer”, “text”: “Completely normal for someone raised in this environment. When calm was always a temporary prelude to the next crisis, your nervous system never learned that peace is safe to settle into. Instead, it treats stability as suspicious. As if you’re just waiting for the floor to drop out. Somatic therapy and nervous system regulation work are particularly effective for this specific pattern.”}}]}
If this resonated, you may also find these guides helpful:
- Dana, D. (2018). The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation. Norton.
- Herman, J. L. (1997). Trauma and Recovery. Basic Books.
- Hooper, L. M., Marotta, S. A., & Lanthier, R. P. (2008). Predictors of Parentification and its Effects: A Review of the Literature. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 17(5), 690, 703.
- Lawson, C. A. (2000). Understanding the Borderline Mother. Jason Aronson.
- Linehan, M. M. (1993). Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Guilford Press.
- Porges, S. W. (2011). The Polyvagal Theory. Norton.
- van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The Body Keeps the Score. Viking.
- Walker, P. (2013). Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving. Azure Coyote.
References
Peer-Reviewed Research (Vancouver)
- van der Kolk BA, Wang JB, Yehuda R, Bedrosian L, Coker AR, Harrison C, et al. Effects of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD on self-experience. PLoS One. 2024;19(1):e0295926. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0295926. PMID: 38198456.
- Cloitre M, Stolbach BC, Herman JL, van der Kolk B, Pynoos R, Wang J, et al. A developmental approach to complex PTSD: childhood and adult cumulative trauma as predictors of symptom complexity. J Trauma Stress. 2009;22(5):399-408. doi:10.1002/jts.20444. PMID: 19795402.
- Porges SW. Polyvagal Theory: Current Status, Clinical Applications, and Future Directions. Clin Neuropsychiatry. 2025;22(3):169-184. doi:10.36131/cnfioritieditore20250301. PMID: 40735382.
- Linehan MM, Wilks CR. The Course and Evolution of Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Am J Psychother. 2015;69(2):97-110. PMID: 26160617.
Books & Cultural Sources (Chicago Author-Date)
- Brown, Brené. Daring Greatly. Penguin Audio, 2012.
- Walker, Pete. Complex PTSD. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013.
- Dana, Deb. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy. Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., 2018.
- Real, Terry. I don't want to talk about it. Scribner Book Company, 1997.
- Brown, Sandra L.. Women Who Love Psychopaths. Mask Publishing, 2018.
Read Annie’s weekly essays on rebuilding after relational trauma.
Weekly Substack essays from Annie Wright, LMFT on relational trauma, recovery, and the House of Life framework. For driven women who want a structured path back to themselves.
WAYS TO WORK WITH ANNIE
Individual Therapy
Trauma-informed therapy for driven women healing relational trauma. Licensed in 11 jurisdictions.
Executive Coaching
Trauma-informed coaching for driven women navigating leadership and burnout.
Fixing the Foundations™
Annie’s signature course for relational trauma recovery. Work at your own pace.
Strong & Stable
The Sunday conversation you wished you’d had years earlier. 25,000+ subscribers.
Annie Wright, LMFT
LMFT #95719 · Relational Trauma Specialist · W.W. Norton Author
Helping driven women finally feel as good as their résumé looks.
As a licensed psychotherapist (LMFT #95719), trauma-informed executive coach, and relational trauma specialist with over 15,000 clinical hours, she guides driven women. Including Silicon Valley leaders, physicians, and entrepreneurs. In repairing the psychological foundations beneath their impressive lives. Annie is the founder and former CEO of Evergreen Counseling, a multimillion-dollar trauma-informed therapy center she built, scaled, and successfully exited. A regular contributor to Psychology Today, her expert commentary has appeared in Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., NBC, and The Information. She is currently writing her first book with W.W. Norton.
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT #95719)
15,000+ direct clinical hours
California · Connecticut · Washington DC · Florida · Maine · Maryland · New Hampshire · New Jersey · Texas · Virginia · Washington
Creator of House of Life™ and Fixing the Foundations™
The Everything Years (W.W. Norton)
Founder & former CEO, Evergreen Counseling
Regular contributor to Psychology Today. Expert commentary has appeared in Forbes, Business Insider, Inc., NBC, and The Information.
