I was hesitant to record any video about the corona virus as there is so many people putting out opinions and I personally think there is too much noise and not enough hard facts around the situation. so I didn’t …
Discussing an estrangement is a very personal decision…some choose to talk publicly about it and others chose to keep it private and closed.
Personally, I rarely talk about my own estrangement publicly as that’s my choice and my right to …
I speak a lot of the many experiences and difficulties of estrangement, but the one I come back the most often is the deep sense uncertainty because it is so consistent across everyone who I’ve spoken to. But why exactly …
There are many reasons why family relationships breakdown which might lead to estrangement but an obvious one is an inability to communicate effectively.
Similarly, there a lot of reasons why communication is poor, such as the general rules around communication within …
The media is rife at the moment with articles on the difficulty of going home to visit a dysfunctional (whatever that means to you) family over Christmas.
You can find my latest contribution to one such article for the …
t was 4 am. Joan woke up as usual to check her phone. A chronic worrier, she was always on high alert, unable to relax for fear that something terrible might happen to someone in the family. This time she …
question I get asked often is what is the difference between Co-Dependence, Interdependence and Independence.
From a social perspective and by virtue of the fact that we are part of the “system” (such as the need to pay bills and …
My name is Karl Melvin and I’m a Psychotherapist based in Dublin. I have created this site to help people detach from the toxic people, emotions and situations which are holding them back from living their lives their way.
