How Emotional Abuse in Childhood Changes the Brain

By Leonard Holmes, PhD 

Leonard Holmes, PhD, is a pioneer of the online therapy field and a clinical psychologist specializing in chronic pain and anxiety.

Updated on March 10, 2024

Medically reviewed by Ann-Louise T. Lockhart, PsyD, ABPP

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https://www.verywellmind.com/childhood-abuse-changes-the-brain-2330401

Practical Tips When You’re Married to Someone with Bipolar Disorder

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Litner, PhD, LMFT, CST — By Jennifer Nelson — Updated on February 15, 2024

https://psychcentral.com/bipolar/being-married-to-a-person-with-bipolar-disorder-tips?slot_pos=article3&utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=pcweekly&utm_content=2024-04-24&apid=25587128&rvid=beca30363447001f01e082de68750e216f2f0b9fe97432af84027afd2410ecfc#next-steps

Flirting: 7 Signs Someone is Into You

Medically reviewed by Janet Brito, Ph.D., LCSW, CST — By Sarah Barkley — Updated on October 2, 2023

https://psychcentral.com/health/flirting-behaviors-explained?slot_pos=article1&utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=pcweekly&utm_content=2024-04-24&apid=25587128&rvid=beca30363447001f01e082de68750e216f2f0b9fe97432af84027afd2410ecfc

7 Ways to Build Emotional Intimacy with Your Partner

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Litner, PhD, LMFT, CST — By Hope Gillette — Updated March 25, 2024

https://psychcentral.com/relationships/steps-to-improving-emotional-intimacy-with-your-partner?slot_pos=article1&utm_source=Sailthru%20Email&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=pcweekly&utm_content=2024-03-27&apid=25587128&rvid=beca30363447001f01e082de68750e216f2f0b9fe97432af84027afd2410ecfc

What Happens When Someone I Love Can’t Get Better: A Book to Prepare and Cope with End of Life 

By Jenni Rogers (Author), Sara Olsher (Author) (2024).

From Amazon.com: “It’s a conversation no one wants to have – you just found out someone you love is dying or needs hospice, and you don’t have as much time as you’d hoped. How do you tell the kids? Where do you start?

Millions of families, when faced with a shortened life expectancy, struggle with how to talk to their kids about it. We don’t want to take away their innocence or end their childhood. How do we have this conversation in a way that isn’t devastating or super scary? We start by making it make sense, from a scientific point of view.

Join Mia and her stuffed giraffe Stuart as they explain how bodies work and what happens when important body parts aren’t able to do their jobs anymore. What Happens When Someone I Love Can’t Get Better uses bright and engaging illustrations to explain what keeps bodies alive and helps reduce confusion about why bodies die.

It covers important topics such as:

  • how internal organs are supposed to function
  • what happens when internal organs stop functioning properly
  • the role of medicine and surgery in treatment
  • what happens when medicine is no longer effective
  • comfort care and hospice
  • legacy building and memory keeping

…all using child-friendly terms that explain and normalize death.

Open, Honest, and Accessible: Kids can handle learning the truth about most any situation – as long as it’s presented in a way that makes sense to them.

Validation of Feelings: By shining a light on big (and sometimes shameful) feelings, this book validates kids’ feelings and experiences, reassuring them that their emotions are normal and encouraging them to share with a trusted grown-up, in addition to providing suggestions for coping.

Resource for Caregivers: When there’s no resource to make hard conversations easier, grown-ups are far less likely to have them. This book aims to empower adults and kids with knowledge, which is proven to help kids through traumatic situations.Therapeutic and Educational Tool: What Happens When Someone I Love Can’t Get Better is a go-to book in hospitals, schools, counseling settings, and support groups. There are no references to God or the afterlife, leaving room for families to have discussions based on their own belief system.”

The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love Paperback

By bell hooks (2004)

From Amazon.com: “From the New York Times bestselling author of All About Love, a brave and astonishing work that challenges patriarchal culture and encourages men to reclaim the best part of themselves.

Everyone needs to love and be loved—even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the ways that patriarchal culture keeps them from knowing themselves, from being in touch with their feelings, from loving.

In The Will to Change, bell hooks gets to the heart of the matter and shows men how to express the emotions that are a fundamental part of who they are—whatever their age, marital status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. But toxic masculinity punishes those fundamental emotions, and it’s so deeply ingrained in our society that it’s hard for men to not comply—but hooks wants to help change that.

With trademark candor and fierce intelligence, hooks addresses the most common concerns of men, such as fear of intimacy and loss of their patriarchal place in society, in new and challenging ways. She believes men can find the way to spiritual unity by getting back in touch with the emotionally open part of themselves—and lay claim to the rich and rewarding inner lives that have historically been the exclusive province of women.”