The Absent Wound is the most visible of the five father-wound patterns. The father isn’t there. Through death, divorce, abandonment, incarceration, deployment, or...
Read MoreWhy the First Weeks Are the Hardest—and Why That’s Actually Good I tell every parent the same thing before their son begins the Quest Project: “It’s going to get worse...
Read MoreAnd What He Needs You to Stop Doing This is going to be uncomfortable. I’m going to ask you to do something that goes against every instinct you have as a mother: step...
Read MoreYou’re Not Failing. You’re Fighting. I need to say something that the parenting world doesn’t say often enough: mothers of struggling boys are doing more right than...
Read MoreSomething is wrong with your son, and you can’t name it. He’s angry all the time-or he’s disappeared into his room and won’t come out. His grades...
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