Gender can be complicated in a society with strict rules about how people should feel, behave, and express themselves based on their assignment to one or the other of two genders. But many people, more than you realize, don’t find that their experience of gender fits well with either of these ideas of ‘male’ or ‘female.’
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A hair pulling self-help monitoring tool to help you build awareness of your hair pulling behaviors looking at the SCAMP domains: Sensory, Cognitive, Affective, Motor, and Place.
Are you going through a divorce, or hoping that couples counseling can save your marriage? Do you have children caught in the middle of a divorce and need parenting strategies to help them through the divorce? Are you looking for how to navigate your life after a divorce or help your children through the process? Read our articles for self-help and read about the resources we have available at the Center for Growth.
You found the perfect partner. You connect on so many different levels. You really feel like they get you, and your family and friends all love them. There’s just one catch. You’re not their first continue reading
Life After The End Of A Marriage: Creating A New Vision
You thought you had taken your wedding vows for life. You thought that “for better or for worse” you and your spouse had continue reading
You may associate the idea of grieving with a death. You may be thinking – a relationship or marriage is ending, but no one died. Why do I feel so bad? Do I have a continue reading
Facebook and Breakups
Have you recently broken up with your boyfriend/girlfriend? Do you find yourself checking your ex’s (X-boyfriend, X-girlfriend, X-wife, X-husband, X-lover, X-partner) Facebook page daily? Looking for clues through Facebook of your ex continue reading
Center for Growth / Separation and Divorce Therapy in Philadelphia
A Parent’s Separation: Through the eyes of an adult child. This is a vignette written by an adult child’s perspective.
Some would say I am continue reading
How To Care For Yourself After A Break-Up All relationship break-ups are difficult; whether you are the one who initiated the ending or the one who was left behind. Relationships play such an important continue reading
Will this relationship last? Relationship and Marital Problems: The answer is simple, it all depends upon how determined each individual is to make the relationship work. If two people want to make the relationship last continue reading
Raising Children in the Midst of Divorce Children are the most innocent victims of divorce. They become of the center of battles over child custody, support and visitation. Divorce changes their lifestyle, because they now continue reading
