Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we were loved and accepted exactly as we are? Many times during psychotherapy sessions, my clients have uttered some version of, “I just want to be unconditionally loved! I ...

A child can fail and still be loved. A man fails once, and he’s “not good enough.” A child can scream, cry, or fall apart. A ...

Most of us have subscribed to the idea that romantic love is unconditional. True love lasts forever and when you fall in love ...

Although I grew up in a working class, immigrant family in conservative, Catholic-dominated Philadelphia in the 1950s, I was a child of privilege. For many of my childhood years, I lived in an ...

Alyce Collins is a Newsweek Life and Trends reporter based in Birmingham, U.K. with a focus on trending topics that are both engaging and relatable. Since 2019, she has covered a variety of ...

"Try to see your child as a seed that came in a packet without a label. Your job is to provide the right environment and nutrients and to pull the weeds. You can’t decide what kind of flower you’ll ...