The Church of the Poisoned Mind 22 Apr 201822 Apr 2018 In the struggle with parental alienation many things are written and said. Many people work hard to understand, explain and resolve the problem and many are left…
Around the World Conferences and Training on Parental Alienation 19 Apr 201819 Apr 2018 We are starting to get busy about the future of parental alienation at the Family Separation Clinic with a year which is packed full of activity designed to raise awareness,…
The Narcissist’s Nightmare 16 Apr 2018 An absorption with the self is a classic trait of narcissism. This absorption is total and not just the self indulgent symptoms of a society which is concerned with how…
FSC Worldwide: Training Opportunities in Costa Mesa California – June 2018 11 Apr 2018 This week we launch training opportunities in Costa Mesa California for practitioners who wish to understand and work with alienated children and their families. This is part of our development…
What if there was a way to explain the harm done to an alienated child. 5 Apr 2018 Readers might be in interested in this you tube talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ePXxeGrfvQ The work done by this man (Ronald P Rohner) has led to a paper by Professor Bill Bernet and…
The Incredible Kindness of The Human Heart 5 Apr 20185 Apr 2018 I work with alienated children and their families, it is what I do. I have this year however, been taking a rest from the reunification work I have undertaken over…
Caught in the Mirror: The Human Face of Narcissism 2 Apr 2018 Some years ago I wrote a piece entitled 'I am the Alienator*' which has now been read over a hundred thousand times in over thirty countries around the world. This piece,…
The Principles and Protocols of Reunification Work 31 Mar 201831 Mar 2018 I am currently engaged in a lot of study on the standards of practice in reunification work, both for the Parental Alienation Study Group and with Simply Parent who are…
Understanding Parental Alienation: London Workshop for Parents 2018 26 Mar 2018 London - Saturday July 14th 2018 A one day intensive - Managing your own case of parental alienation, understanding the legal and mental health interlock and self representation. £90…
Living With Shadows: Learning to Care for Rejected Parents 25 Mar 201825 Mar 2018 Living with shadows can feel like the lot of the alienated parent, if you let it. The shadow side of the black/white split in the mind, creates one parent who…
Finding The Way Home: The Importance of Perspective for Alienated Children 18 Mar 201818 Mar 2018 Perspective noun the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each…
Conferences and Training 2018 16 Mar 201824 Mar 2018 This year there are six major conferences worldwide, in the emerging scientific field of children's resistance to relationships with parents after divorce and separation (also known as parental alienation). These…
EAPAP Conference – London 2018 12 Mar 201815 Mar 2018 London Conference Bookings Now Open This is promising to be a game changing conference with the interest of key legal people in the UK and contributions from around Europe. We…
Love Lives in Empty Spaces 11 Mar 201811 Mar 2018 Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK, that day when we celebrate our mothers. No matter who we are or where we are, no matter whether we love our mothers…
Growing Seeds of Change 7 Mar 20187 Mar 2018 We've been working hard sowing and growing seeds of change in the field of parental alienation over the past twelve months. As our seeds begin to grow, I thought I…
Chinese Whispers and Chinese Walls: The Language and Landscape of Parental Alienation 4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018 I am often asked by parents of older children, how come their child has not returned to them when they are clearly old enough to look back and understand what…
Healing the Heart of a Hurting Child 1 Mar 20181 Mar 2018 Healing the heart of a hurting child is the way that I conceptualise all work in the field of reunification. How we achieve that healing is different depending upon…
Be Part of The New Generation of Practitioners – Learning Opportunities 28 Feb 201828 Feb 2018 We are now working towards building a force for change by training practitioners around Europe, USA and Australia to work with the problem of parental alienation. No longer are we…
Approaching the Tipping Point – 2018 -The Year They Heard About Parental Alienation 26 Feb 201826 Feb 2018 This is going to be a big year in the field of parental alienation, in fact when we look back in five years time, this year will, in my view,…
Coming Home 24 Feb 2018 To offset the negative, I also often receive positive comments and here this week I received one of the most wonderful comments. A comment to make my heart and yours,…
Finding Your Peace in an Ambivalent World 22 Feb 2018 ambivalence noun the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone. One of the things missing in the world of alienated children is ambivalence. It is…
The Unbearable Rightness of Reason 21 Feb 201821 Feb 2018 To those who have written to me in the belief that I have somehow joined with Childress on his Facebook page, I am sorry to disappoint you but I haven't and…
The Cult of the Beneficient Father: The Negative Transference in Parental Alienation 20 Feb 201820 Feb 2018 Ignoring the current discussions about me which abound on the internet would be a little like sipping tea with the elephant in the room sitting on the teapot to keep…
Denigration, Division and Divided Loyalty: The Straw Man Trap in Parental Alienation 17 Feb 201817 Feb 2018 Straw Man Argument - Description: Substituting a person’s actual position or argument with a distorted, exaggerated, or misrepresented version of the position of the argument. The straw man argument in…
The Good/Bad Burden in Parental Alienation 15 Feb 201815 Feb 2018 There is a plethora of burdens for alienated parents to carry and many ways that these burdens are borne by those who are suffering. One of the heaviest burdens is…
Inarticulate Speech of The Heart 13 Feb 201813 Feb 2018 Those readers who are Van Morrison fans will recognise this as one of his song titles and I am indebted to him for the creation of the sentence which headlines…
Knowing is Not Enough 11 Feb 201811 Feb 2018 There is a proliferation of parental alienation experts in the UK at the moment, they seem to be popping up like mushrooms in a dark damp field. Looking a bit…
Practitioner Training Opportunities 2018 5 Feb 20185 Feb 2018 2018 is going to be a very important year for the work we do to help children affected by parental alienation all over the world. The Family Separation Clinic is…
Sitting with sadness 1 Feb 2018 I first came across the Mindful Gardner Blog last week and was entranced by the pleasure of the pictures, the words and the concepts of simply being with the natural…
Laying Down the Right/Wrong Burden 27 Jan 201827 Jan 2018 One of the hardest things for a parent whose child has completely rejected them is to lay down the right/wrong burden. This burden, which is placed upon the back of…
Moving Upstream 23 Jan 20184 Feb 2018 One of the ways that we work at the Family Separation Clinic is to move upstream as much as we possibly can, to help parents whose children are struggling with…
The Heart of The Matter: The Power and Control Variable in Parental Alienation 22 Jan 2018 Following on from the last post in which we explored the variables of location, situation and transition, this post looks at the variable of power and control, which in parental…
Location, Situation and Transition : The Variables In Parental Alienation 20 Jan 201823 Jan 2018 The idea that children only become alienated through the actions of a narcissistic parent acting against the other is not borne out in the evidence from our practice with alienation…
A Retreat For Alienated Mothers – Somerset UK – June 2018 16 Jan 201816 Jan 2018 Building on our support for alienated parents, we are launching our alienated mothers retreats this summer in Somerset, England. In addition, we will also be running this retreat for mothers…
The Greatest Love of All 13 Jan 2018 This back to work week has been a joyous occasion for me as news reaches us of reunifications and reconnections between children and their loved parents and families, and we…
Here Comes Dandlebear 12 Jan 2018 As part of our work with children who are affected by family separation and/or at risk of alienation, we have brought the Dandlebear stories to life on Kindle. There are…
I’m OK, You’re not OK – it’s not ok in PA 11 Jan 2018 The world of parental alienation is a binary world, which means that in all sides of the issue in the family affected, there are divisions and schisms into one or…
Lamp Lighting: Helping Alienated Children to Find Their Way Home. 6 Jan 20186 Jan 2018 Second post of 2018 and I write from our annual retreat where we go to build our resilience for our onward journey with alienated children and their families. As a…
Starting as We Mean to Go On: Setting the Scene 2018 1 Jan 20181 Jan 2018 This is a going to be a big year in terms of the raising to consciousness of parental alienation around the world. In the UK, where we will hold the…
In the Windmills of Your Mind 30 Dec 20171 Jan 2018 Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnival…
