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Benjamin Garber PhD Benjamin Garber PhD

With New School Year, Reset Your Children’s Routines

Parenting is about rhythm. Sure, it helps if you can sing and dance. But parenting is about the rhythms of eating and sleeping and toileting.[…] Our job as healthy parents is to slowly and gradually help our children fit in to these rhythms

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Benjamin Garber PhD Benjamin Garber PhD

Parents: It’s time to start thinking “back to school”

Yes, it’s that time again. We’re quickly reaching the end of what seemed last May like an infinitely long tunnel called summer. Whether you’ve vacationed and tanned and exercised, read that book or weeded that garden or accomplished any of the million or so chores you had planned for the season, it’s almost too late now. It’s time to stop procrastinating about what could have been and what should have happened. It’s time to start thinking about school.

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Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

How to Spot a Narcissist in 3 Steps

Narcissists can be very difficult to be around, so be aware of what you’re facing. Whether you’re dating, making friends, looking for a job, hiring employees, or joining a club or organization, it can be helpful to know some of the warning signs for people with narcissistic personality disorder or significant traits.

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Megan Hunter Megan Hunter

Aftermath of a Flawed System

Lawyers, judges, mediators, mental health professionals and others who deal with high-conflict cases, especially in family law, unwittingly entered a high-risk profession. They don't enter law or grad school with a desire to someday have clients who can be the most volatile and dangerous in society, putting themselves at risk both physically and emotionally.

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Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

How to spot high-conflict people before it's too late

Here's a fast fact about high-conflict people: life is better when you avoid them. Bill Eddy, mediation expert and president of the High Conflict Institute, describes them not only as difficult but also potentially dangerous. So how can we avoid becoming a target in their path of destruction?

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Guest Author Guest Author

DBT: The Beginning and the End

by Shehrina Rooney — Today I discuss my journey with DBT. The difficulties at the beginning, how I didn't think it would work for me and how eventually it did.

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Guest Author Guest Author

My Book....and my NEW website...coming soon!

New Unhooked Books author, Shehrina Rooney, has over 8,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel with more than 250 videos on Borderline Personality Disorder. Watch this video where she announces her new book, The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder, and her new website soon to be launched.

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Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.

4 Toxic Personalities You Should Steer Clear of

We all relish a good love story about the couple who “just knew” within minutes of meeting each other that they were meant to be together. They moved in and got married quickly. Years later, they’re still holding hands and eating off each other’s plates. But most of us also know that’s not how love usually shows up in real life.

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