by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Sep 29, 2025 | Thoughts for Families
I want to discuss boundaries today from two different perspectives: boundaries or the lack thereof often observed in children with chronic trauma histories and boundaries for you as caretaker. This won’t be easy. It won’t be easy for me and it won’t be easy for you....
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Sep 3, 2025 | Thoughts for Families
How do we prepare a young human to enter the adult world ready to participate? Let’s take a few minutes to look a little closer at our parental roles with an eye to which ones work toward this goal and which work against it. Those that are critical for children under...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Aug 5, 2025 | Thoughts for Families
I’m continually amazed by how much time I spend considering the human condition. As a child, I remember thinking that my family was one of a kind and that Leave it to Beaver was showing me what all other families were like. My aspirations tended toward helping teens...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | May 28, 2025 | Thoughts for Families
Tears 101 I’ve mentioned before the value of daily meditation. Well, this morning found me looking for a guided meditation that promised a less self-destructive dopamine hit than I’d been enjoying all week. I’ve been getting waaay too much this week by eating waaay...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | May 2, 2025 | Thoughts for Families
Whose Fault Is It? My 11-year-old granddaughter urgently asked me to take her to get two cocoas before she left for an event Saturday. Up here in Flagstaff, there were about 6 inches of snow on the ground. It was cold! When I declined to leave the warmth of my house...
by Cathy Tompkins, MA | Apr 9, 2025 | Thoughts for Families
WHERE DO I COME FROM? Call me Cathy. Cathy with a C, please. I have a vague memory that I was named after my dad’s former girlfriend. I was my mother’s 5th pregnancy, first live birth. I am my dad’s second born; a half sister was 6 years older. I had 3 younger...
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