Karen Woodall

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 is the way that I conceptualise all work in the field of reunification.  How we achieve that healing is different depending upon…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We are fast approaching the end of 2017 and I thought it might be useful to round up the PA news in the UK, ahead of what is going to…

Christmas Eve is the hardest time of the year for so many families, the day when children and lost loved ones are close in our hearts and minds and missing…

I have been reading Oliver James's book 'Not in Your Genes' this week and in doing so have found myself uncovering another layer of understanding of what it means to…

I work with alienated children of all ages and have done so for a long time now.  I know the landscape in which alienated children live very well.  What I…