accepting | Getting Past Your Breakup

Closure Redux

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Sep 1, 2019 | acceptance, accepting, breakup, closure, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup

For most of you who have read the book, you know that I talk about closure and “end of the grief process” in different ways. Because they are not the same. To describe the end of the grief process, I use the words “acceptance” or...

Respect Me or Get Out: Torch Song Trilogy

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Aug 19, 2019 | accepting, boundaries, crazy making, dysfunctional family systems, emotional pain, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, relationships, standards, Torch Song Trilogy

A perennial favorite on the blog and requested repost: I saw this movie in the theater when it came out and I was pretty tortured and depressed at the time. I had just ended my marriage and was wrestling with my relationship with my adoptive family. I remember...

Torch Song Trilogy

by Susan J. Elliott, J.D., M.Ed. | Dec 27, 2017 | accepting, boundaries, crazy making, dysfunctional family systems, emotional pain, featured, Getting Past Your Breakup, relationships, standards, Torch Song Trilogy

A perennial favorite on the blog and requested repost: I saw this movie in the theater when it came out and I was pretty tortured and depressed at the time. I had just ended my marriage and was wrestling with my relationship with my adoptive family. I remember...