
Understanding Mental Health in Families
Supporting a family member with mental illness can be an overwhelming and isolating experience. We're here to help.
Supporting a family member with mental illness can be an overwhelming and isolating experience. We're here to help.
This guide will help you navigate the process of finding a therapist who works with family systems.
We highly recommend this book to parents or family members seeking guidance, encouragement, and strategies for creating a supportive home environment.
Use this worksheet to prepare for dealing with emotionally draining family interactions.
In this video, Whitney explains why you cannot feel fully responsible for a family member's mental health and well-being.
This article will help you identify when a family relationship is negatively impacting your mental health.
If you are attempting to explain a family member’s mental health struggles to your child, these scripts and tips will help.
Scripts for interacting with family members who don’t believe in mental health or mental health treatment.
Journal prompts to help you process and navigate your emotions when your family blames your mental health for estrangement.
Learn practical strategies for detaching with love and why it's important.
Some family members will blame your mental health as the only reason for the estrangement. It's usually more complicated.
Use this worksheet to determine if you are equipped to help.
Learn how growing up as a glass child impacts your mental health.
When this happens, you can implement several strategies to help prevent the issue from escalating.
I’m not sure you can truly understand what it’s like to watch someone you love slowly disappear in front of you—unless you’ve lived it.
How to tell the difference between helping and enabling.
Four journal prompts to help you process when a family member refuses to get help for their mental health.
Sometimes, you can do and say all the right things, and your family member will still refuse to get help for their mental health.
True support doesn’t mean rescuing someone from their struggles.