I feel like talking about being unhappy or feeling lost is dirty and not appropriate. I think everyone loses themselves sometimes, even multiples times and I think it is just a sign that there is a better updated version of you waiting.

Is it possible that our daily and weekly schedules stand in the way of our more significant desires? Are we missing the point in all of our strivings to be good parents and 'do' all the right things?

A big part of giving our teens permission to be themselves is to RESPECT your teen's right to their own feelings.

As parents, we can take steps to become our teens' vault', their safe space, where their thoughts, feelings, opinions, and emotions are safeguarded.

ou may ask yourself, "Why won't my teen talk to me?" Are you frustrated with competing with the device in their hand? Are they closed off to you? Standoffish

You have to take small steps every day. You cannot expect to do inner child work one time and then be an expert at articulating and coping with your emotions. Remember that practice leads to mastery. Here are the steps you need to be aware of to see progress when it comes to healing emotional neglect and mastering emotional intelligence.

If you want to change that emotional mess you get caught up in and actually want to be able to process your emotions and other people's feelings, then working with your childhood emotional wound is the best place to start.

You might still be struggling with the leftovers of your emotional neglect during childhood.

You might be used to not understanding what you actually feel, and you keep struggling to understand any other type of feeling.

Lack of emotional intelligence means it is frustrating and challenging for you to identify and express your emotions. Trying to comprehend other people's emotions can be overwhelming to the point you don't want to deal with them.

We help you to get out of your you-me stances of dysfunctional relationship patterns, and reconnect to the “us” of being on the same team and fighting FOR your relationship instead of with each other.

Those surface area emotions, joy, peace, happiness, and contentment have now become deep rooted emotions because I’ve made it to the other side. Instead of being fearful and stricken with worry, I can now rest in the peace (serenity) of accepting things I can’t change.

Trying to maintain the persona of one who is brave, but on the inside the fear and worry are chipping away at your core can be tough