Cathy Tompkins

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. Promise. Boundaries serve us and protect us. They organize... Read More

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 7 must yield to... Read More

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 realize their power to live lives vastly... Read More