Given that my next book is about RA within families AND given that we just passed through the “kickoff” holiday of Thanksgiving, it seems worth musing about families we are born into and/or sworn into. Some of the bitterest stories I received for my recent book came from women who thought being […]

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This is the website for a Youth and Family Resource Center in Oklahoma. It’s a great resource for not only relational aggression links, but a good number of high quality educational links for children, as well as support for families. I bookmarked this site for my own research use and doorway to on-line information to […]

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This month at one of the middle schools where I collaborate we are beginning to “rewrite” the play Hamlet –from Ophelia’s point of view. As we work our way through the script and watch clips from the movie, it’s striking to see how very sweet and uncertain and eager-to-please and tragic Ophelia was. […]

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The other day I saw a show about youth violence, and a man said that cliques were a fact of life, but some kids were sensitive to the teasing and getting picked on, and responded in violent ways. But he said to get rid of cliques was to get rid of adolescence.
And I thought, do […]

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There is nothing more powerful than a grateful heart. Why? Because a grateful heart is an open heart, and an open heart is a channel for love and love is the most powerful healing force on earth.
Being a target of relational aggression, more often than not, means getting hurt, often wounded in a deep and […]

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