Help Girls to Develop Emotional Awareness: parents should notice if they have anxiety about raising their girl and, as a result of that anxiety, tend to focus her more on being a ‘good girl’ than…

Body hatred and women verbally bullying one another are tied together. Culture stigmatizes women who do not meet traditional standards of beauty and, too often, women use this unforgiving reality to harshly judge one another…

Too frequently I see adolescent girls and adult women who come to therapy believing they are overly “dramatic.” They often rely on an emotional coping strategy of minimizing and pushing away much.…