Suicide Prevention and Survival
How do individuals and families survive after the suicide of a relative or close friend? How can some suicides be prevented? These will be our topics of discussion. When Carl David was only sixteen,...
View ArticleUnderstanding and Breaking Addiction -- a New Way
For more than thirty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and...
View ArticleFamily Dinners: Why They Matter and How to Make Them Fun
“Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun, and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids” will be our primary topic of conversation. How can you get children of different ages to look forward to...
View ArticleLife Coaching for Teens and Parents
Raising teenagers brings challenges for many parents. Being an adolescent comes with built-in challenges for teens. The same goes for being relevant and effective as a dad or a mom, for co-parenting...
View ArticleTremors in the Universe - Shaking Up the Parkinson's Experience
As the Parkinson’s community continues to grow, so do the critical needs of individuals like Robert Baittie who are affected by the disease. This makes raising awareness and increasing participation in...
View ArticleHow Do Raising a Child and Running a Business Use the Same Skills?
What can your kids teach you about business? What can business teach you about raising your kids? What do immigrants experience and do as they settle in the United States, begin to learn English, and...
View ArticleStepfamilies: What Works and What Doesn't
What we call “blended families” are a lot more challenging than the name implies. Stepfamilies can be healthy, happy families and good places to raise children, but building a successful stepfamily is...
View ArticlePrenups, Postnups, and Letters to Exes
This show has two parts: first a discussion of cutting-edge research on divorce from the vantage point of those who have been through the process and are reflecting back about their thoughts and...
View ArticleHow Can Divorce Be a Good Thing?
Tara Eisenhard grew up thinking that divorce was a good thing. Her parents’ cooperative divorce and subsequent co-parenting demonstrated that for her. Her own divorce also went well overall. We will...
View ArticleSurviving Child Abuse
The long-term effects of severe abuse during childhood are terribly difficult to overcome. Some people never succeed. Despite years of his mother starving, beating, and tormenting him, Dave Pelzer did....
View ArticleBorn for Brilliance: Fostering Intelligence, Self-Reliance, and Compassion in...
How can you unleash your child's individual potential in the first 3 years of life? How can you launch young children onto a path to becoming intelligent, thinking, self-reliant individuals, build...
View ArticleTaming the Technology Beast: Lessons from 'The Durable Human Manifesto'
How profoundly has personal digital technology affected family life? Do smartphones and social media decrease, increase, or simply change how family members interact with each other, with friends, with...
View ArticleLove, Marriage, History, and Politics: Families and Societies
What does a “traditional” family look like? When did that family form emerge? How long is it likely to last? Historian Stephanie Coontz and Dr. Colin will discuss centuries of changes in the purposes...
View ArticleWrongly Charged: How The Legal System Really Works
True or false: “If you haven’t done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.” How does the legal system in the U.S. really work? Why do many people spend time in prison for crimes they did not commit?...
View ArticleModern Marriages: What Do People Want?
In this era of millennials delaying marriage, gray divorces, frankly open marriages, and same-sex marriages, what questions should prospective brides and grooms ask each other before they marry?...
View ArticleRespect and Cooperation in Families: How to Make Your Home a No-Fault Zone
Are you tired of arguing and fighting with your kids? Are you longing for less conflict, more cooperation, and more fun at home? Author and communication coach, Sura Hart, helps parents connect with...
View ArticleTaking the Mystery out of Medicare: What You or Your Parents Need to Know
Many people find the process of enrolling in Medicare complicated and daunting. They are pummeled by mail solicitations from insurance companies, and they receive government booklets that some folks...
View ArticleRomance: How Do Men's and Women's Brains and Hormones Affect Relationships?
Fueled by unsustainable hormone surges, romance ordinarily has a limited life span. Recognizing how men and women differ in brain structure and hormone flows can help people create and continue the...
View ArticleCreating Solutions for Divorced Parenting Situations: The Pro-Child Way.
Good parenting skills can be maintained even when marital status changes Children are too often the unintended victims of their parents’ mutual animosity during and after divorce. Convinced that...
View ArticleRecovering from a Stroke: A Creative Approach
Stephen Schwertley needed to recover from an unexpected stroke. To do so, he challenged himself to start writing a book! Writing the novel helped this aspiring author to heal from his stroke-related...
View ArticleThe Tao of Love When Cultures Interact
Attraction knows no boundaries. Relationships that cross culture, religion, nationality, or other differences can be enriching as well as challenging. How can you harness the Yin and Yang in your...
View ArticleLet Your Child Fail! That's How They Learn
We live in the age of helicopter parents and tiger moms. But, more and more, the evidence shows that by doing everything we can to protect our cherished children from failure we are, in fact, not...
View ArticleSpirituality: What Can We Learn From Neuroscience?
Can we train our brains for more happiness and less success? What can neuroscience and spiritual practices teach us about being more mindful and letting go of drama? What is the law of attraction? Does...
View ArticleEnvisioning Your Retirement: How to Prepare Today for a More Fulfilling Tomorrow
Retirement has often been viewed as the end to a working career, but today it more likely seen as a new beginning. The road to retirement is seldom smooth. Whether retirement is many years away or...
View ArticleUnconscious Biases - The Hidden Brain
Being human includes having biases. Bias originates in the evolutionary inclination to distinguish “friend” (someone like members of my group) from “foe” (someone different from my group) in order to...
View ArticleThanks for The Dance: Grieving and Recovering after Your Spouse's Death
Fred and Jeri Abrams understand the pain of losing your spouse and have some very useful suggestions for reducing the suffering that accompanies it. Their book, Thanks For The Dance, discusses the...
View ArticleBreaking My Silence: A Survivor's Story of Recovery from Child Abuse
Across countries, races, religions, and socio-economic levels, child abuse is distressingly common. Abuse can be physical, emotional, and/or sexual. It can continue in a family from generation to...
View ArticleFamily Talk When You Are All Grown Up: Parents and Adult Siblings
Closeness, rivalry, support, connection, control, criticism, jealousy, misunderstandings, misinterpretations of intent — what people want from family relationships and what they experience in them...
View ArticlePlay Therapy: What Helps Children with Troubles?
How do therapists work with very young children, including those who do not yet have all the words needed to express their problems, thoughts, and feelings? Play therapists are trained professionals...
View ArticleSharing Your Story and Healing Your Life
Many people have traumatic experiences during childhood and must then deal with shame, loss, hostility, and other complex ramifications. Feeling poisoned by their own anger or constrained by a victim...
View ArticleDating and Relationships After Divorce: Essential Tips
Dating after divorce can be a complicated and confusing challenge. How do you start over and attract a healthy relationship partner? How do you prepare yourself emotionally and physically for dating...
View ArticlePrisons and Families: What Happens When a Family Member Is Incarcerated?
Most people have no idea what happens to the rest of the family when one of its members goes to prison. Having been “in the trenches” doing research with women in that situation, Dr. Avon Hart-Johnson...
View ArticleThe Art of Coming Out - Journeys for Everyone
Coming out as a gay person is a journey, not a one time event. While it may seem that coming out is an individual experience, the reality is that it affects people near and far. Too often the focus is...
View ArticleHealing from Sexual Abuse, So Victimization Will Not Be a Life Sentence
How widespread is child sexual abuse? What are the short-term and long-term effects? How does healing happen? Guest expert Ivonne Meeuwsen discusses how healing is a layered process with mental,...
View ArticleChild Support Collection: Deadbeat or Dead Broke?
Society gets caught between whether a parent who fails to pay child support is a Deadbeat or is truly Dead Broke. Too often kids get lost and forgotten in the middle. Some parents neglect paying child...
View ArticleBullying: How To Overcome It
Bullying is at least as old as recorded history and, with the rise of the Internet, has acquired an additional form. In addition to physical, verbal, social, and emotional, bullying we now have...
View ArticleProfessional Family Mediators: Who Are They?
What is the history of family mediation in the U.S.? When, how, and why did it start? Many people thought that family mediation would become the first choice approach to divorce in the 1980’s. Why did...
View ArticleHow to Transform Strained Relationships
Are you tired of arguing with your ex-spouse, your mother-in-law, your cousin, or another family member? Would you like to stop walking on eggshells around them, waiting for them to blindside you with...
View ArticleCreating Unstoppable Relationships
Can you learn to have the power to create the relationships you deserve, the ones you have always dreamed of? Lori Ann Davis believes that you can. She teaches how to make relationships the passionate,...
View ArticleRaising Kids to Become Adults
Many parents do too much for their kids and so unintentionally handicap them. Parents who are overly protective, overly directive, or overly and inappropriately supportive prevent their kids from...
View ArticleWhy Women Love Strong Men
Today’s men have received so many confusing messages about what a man should be, they are often bewildered. Women are frustrated with today`s men who won`t make decisions and are oblivious to problems...
View ArticleRelationships: Love Is Never Enough
To have a relationship be great, you need more than love. Both people need to feel loved. Bill Ferguson, author of “How to Heal a Painful Relationship,” believes that whenever you have a relationship...
View ArticleHow to Save Your Marriage
What do you do when your spouse says they want out? Sadly this is a very common occurrence. More often than not it leads to separation and divorce. It is also one of the most difficult problems a...
View ArticleParenting 101: Nurturing Gratitude and Kindness, not Entitlement
Some parents, with the best of intentions, focus so much on their children’s happiness and feel so uncomfortable when one of their children is distressed that they behave in ways that produce the...
View ArticleCollaborative Law, Team Mediation, and High Conflict Divorces
When an individual or a couple wants to divorce, there are a variety of ways to decide about the terms of the divorce. The host of Family Matters believes that working with a professional family...
View ArticleFinding Your Balance While Caring for an Elderly Loved One
Few of us can devote full time to caregiving an elderly parent or relative. Most of us have a full-time job, a spouse, and sometimes children to care for as well. If you are in the role of primary...
View ArticleThe Divorce Dance: Taking the Lead
Financial expert Stan Corey and family mediator Virginia Colin will confer about how a people can divorce respectfully. In addition to discussing what they have learned from numerous experiences with a...
View ArticleMindfulness in Family Relationships and Vitality in Family Members
During the first half of the show, relationship counselor Margie Ulbrick talks with Dr. Colin about applying the skills of mindfulness in intimate relationships, in parenting, and in family life....
View ArticleCo-Parenting with a Toxic Ex
Is your ex trying to turn your child against you? Is he or she trying to convince your child that you are unsafe, unloving, and unavailable when that is not at all true? Sadly, some parents do this to...
View ArticleHigh Conflict Co-Parenting and Family Law Reform
Part I: Two or more years after a divorce, a significant number of parents are still locked in conflicts that are very distressing for their children. How can we help these parents protect themselves...
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