The Thirteen Amendment was adopted on December 18, 1865, as part of the United States Constitution. The amendment officially abolished slavery, and immediately freed more than 100,000 enslaved people, from Kentucky to Delaware. The language used in the...
One of the most devastating experiences any human being can undergo in life is the loss of a loved one. The intensity of the feeling known as grief can cripple us at a time when we most need emotional strength. It can linger within us for years as a nagging “could...
With each new generation, our familial roles are expanded; children become parents, and parents become grandparents. The smallest member has a great impact on the “bigger” ones, creating a huge event in the family system’s history simply by being born and,...
Many families throughout their history have held many secrets close to their heart. It‘s generally done to protect others from the pain of the truth, a simple truth about some less than pleasant matter. Over time, sometimes generations as we see in systemic, ancestral...
Every family system has the potential to reject or exclude, and there are numerous ways in which such a dynamic can be exhibited. In some cases, there may have been some traumatic event that generated more pain than the family felt it could endure. As a result,...