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Feeling like a nagging wife or partner? Here’s a tip to change that dynamic.

Read the one-page welcome letter excerpted from "Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive."

We can only meet our children’s feelings when we know how to meet our own.

Permission to feel our emotions is very different than permission to act on our emotions.

Permission to feel our emotions is very different than permission to act on our emotions.

Culturally, we may picture women as more emotional and men as more stoic. But neuroscience tells a different story. Having and expressing emotions isn’t a “female thing” or a “male thing.”It’s a human thing.

Some of us were taught to “tone it down” or not get our hopes up. We have learned to disavow our excitement, a core emotion.

In a system stretched thin and often focused on symptom management, AEDP offers something radically different.

In a system stretched thin and often focused on symptom management, AEDP offers something radically different.

We greatly benefit from understanding which emotions are affecting us and why. By feeling it through and thinking it through, we get the best outcomes. When we work the Change Triangle, we get calmer, more curious, more compassionate, and we gain clarity.