Family & boundaries
The family request you can’t seem to refuse.
What happened in a family can still shape what feels possible now.
Daughters of Emotionally Immature MothersThe library · Annie Wright, LMFT
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Surviving on Breadcrumbs: How We Acclimate to Scraps
What’s Your Attachment Style? Part 1
Growing More Securely Attached, Part 2
Do You See Yourself in This Definition of Relational Trauma?
Secure-Base Leadership: What Bowlby’s Attachment Theory Actually Teaches the C-Suite
Attachment and Co-Founder Conflict: When the Business Fight Is Never Really About the Business
Mary Ainsworth and Attachment Styles: What the Strange Situation Research Reveals About Your Adult Relationships
Sue Johnson and Emotionally Focused Therapy: An LMFT’s Guide to Attachment Science in Couples Work
Edward Tronick and the Still Face Experiment: What It Reveals About Emotional Neglect, Adult Relationships, and Healing
Allan Schore and Right-Brain Attachment: What Early Relational Neuroscience Means for Driven Women in Therapy
Pete Walker, Complex PTSD, and the Fawn Response: A Clinical Guide for Driven Women Who’ve Been Saying Yes Their Whole Lives
When Your Nervous System Thinks Love Is a Threat
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Work & ambition
You love the work. You can’t switch it off.
Start with the distinction between ambition you choose and achievement you feel compelled to pursue.
Am I Addicted to Achievement or Just Driven?A different adulthood
Your childhood isn’t the life you want next.
A starting question about the adulthood you want to build, rather than a label you have to accept.
I had a lousy childhood. I want a good adulthood.Readers & colleagues
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