by Elizabeth Brokamp | May 9, 2020 | Relationships
Mother’s Day can feel complicated when you and your mom have a stressful relationship or don’t see eye to eye. When Your Past with Your Mom Has Been Tough Many people don’t have the kind of relationship with their moms that can be captured by a...
by Elizabeth Brokamp | Apr 27, 2020 | Relationships
The Coronavirus pandemic is causing tremendous stress on our economy, which translates into financial troubles in households across America. How can you and your spouse handle it together? In the best of times, money is an explosive topic for most couples. So what...
by Elizabeth Brokamp | Mar 15, 2020 | Relationships
How do you know when it is time to let go? Your relationship — if you are being honest — has been limping along for a while. Neither of you seems happy but no one is really talking about it. Instead, you go about your daily routines, feeling dissatisfied,...
by Elizabeth Brokamp | Mar 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Relationships
Side-by-side laptops aren’t part of every couple’s ideal work vision. Coronavirus has already wreaked havoc on life in the U.S., impacting how and where we Americans work. The answer is increasingly, “At home.” But what happens when it’s...
by Elizabeth Brokamp | Nov 12, 2014 | Parenting, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Most of my clients arrive at the conclusion that their mother is a narcissist through the back door. They come to therapy to uncover something about themselves: why they have such low self-esteem, how they can stop people-pleasing all of the time, or what they can do...
by Elizabeth Brokamp | Nov 11, 2014 | Relationships
To say that I enjoy watching Lifetime’s reality docudrama True Tori, about the marriage of actress Tori Spelling to actor Dean McDermott, is like calling a tornado “interesting.” Having a front row seat to what happens to a relationship...
