Welcome to my Blog
Thank you for stopping by. This space is where I share research, reflections, and practical tools drawn from my experience as a marriage and family therapist.
Are you a couple looking for clarity? A professional curious about the science of relationships? Or simply someone interested in how love and resilience work? I’m glad you’ve found your way here. I can help with that.
Each post is written with one goal in mind: to help you better understand yourself, your partner, and the hidden dynamics that shape human connection.
Grab a coffee (or a notebook), explore what speaks to you, and take what’s useful back into your life and relationships. And if a post sparks a question, or makes you realize you could use more support, I’d love to hear from you.
Be Well, Stay Kind, and Godspeed.
~Daniel
P.S.
Feel free to explore the categories below to find past blog posts on the topics that matter most to you. If you’re curious about attachment, navigating conflict, or strengthening intimacy, these archives are a great way to dive deeper into the research and insights that I’ve been sharing for years.
- Attachment Issues
- Coronavirus
- Couples Therapy
- Extramarital Affairs
- Family Life and Parenting
- How to Fight Fair
- Inlaws and Extended Families
- Intercultural Relationships
- Marriage and Mental Health
- Married Life & Intimate Relationships
- Neurodiverse Couples
- Separation & Divorce
- Signs of Trouble
- Social Media and Relationships
- What Happy Couples Know
3 Specific things to focus on when your child goes to school that will optimize their future reasoning skills…
Do you want to give your children a heads up in this crazy world?
New research from Finland says to focus on these 3 things, starting when they enter school.
Research from the UK and USA: 20% of kids are experiencing something psychologically worse than parental abuse…
20% of American kids endure something worse than child abuse. A huge new cross-cultural research in the UK and the USA, reveals the toxic effects 40 years later…
Childhood terror, and memory…
New research suggests there’s a correlation between how you think about your sh*tty childhood, and your overall mental health.
If you’ve got partner issues as a result, well, that’s to be expected…
Got books? How reading for pleasure nurtures your child’s brain and protects their mental health…
Breaking high quality research reports that reading for pleasure will convey massive benefits..enhancing your kids cognitive ability and their future mental health.
Got books?
6 Ways your Strategic Family Therapist is thinking about you when you’re not looking…
Here are 6 ways a Strategic Family Therapist thinks about you when you show up.
What are they looking at and why?
4 Traits your kids may be displaying right now that indicate high intelligence
We learned from a huge longitudinal study that there are 4 traits that children may display that are indicative of high intelligence and a hungry mind…
Attachment, Differentiation, and Estrangement
It was Dr. Murray Bowen (1913-1990) who first suggested that every human being is governed by the interplay of two counter weighing factors… the drive toward togetherness, attachment, and enmeshment… and the countervailing force toward individuality and differentiation.
How household instability as a child made your brain more efficient….and how that can be a problem for you today
“What doesn’t kill me will make me stronger…:
Not if you’re a little kiddo….
How long does a parental estrangement typically last? Wrong question!
How long does a parental estrangement last? 5 years? 10 years? It’s the wrong question… here are the factors that may abbreviate a cutoff…
What makes an adult child cut ties with mom?…Research says you’ll get two different answers…
Estrangement from your mother is a relatively rare phenomena.
The research revealed that only 6% of adult children reported any levels of estrangement from their mothers.
So why does the research read like they all have the same mother?
New research on adult parental cut-off…why do daddy issues dominate?
There’s new research on the nature of estrangement between adult children and their parents… why is daddy so difficult?
Longitudinal study: Teens who love their parents live longer…
New research indicates something incredible. Loving homes encourage longevity? Why?