by Brian Balke | Jan 11, 2023 | Relationships
What does it mean to become an adult? We have social conventions that chart our progress: a driver’s license at sixteen, voting and sexual consent at eighteen, and tippling at twenty-one. While those milestones assume that we have achieved a level of maturity, few...
by Brian Balke | Sep 16, 2020 | Relationships
If this is your memory of your first relationship, you may hope that therapy would help you find the strength to trust again in other people. But deep down in the subconscious realm, there was a question being asked of the social part of the mind. “Why? This is...
by Brian Balke | Mar 9, 2019 | Basics
Healing and Trust The doorway to adulthood opens in that moment when we realize that we don’t know how to be an adult. The years from infancy to independence only teach us how to express ourselves. They don’t teach us how to be a responsible member of society. By the...