by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Jan 2, 2026 | Psychology
You learned to read the room before you could read books. The sound of a car door closing. The weight of footsteps on the stairs. The particular quality of silence that meant something was wrong. As a child, you developed an exquisitely tuned radar for the emotional...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
How the Mother Wound Sabotages Relationships: 10 Ways We Re-Enact the Past The Mother Wound is a primal injury that occurs when the mother (or primary caregiver) is unable to provide the attunement, mirroring, and emotional safety a child needs to develop a secure...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Dec 26, 2025 | Jungian Therapy and Depth Psychology
In the lexicon of Depth Psychology, few concepts are as heavy or as misunderstood as the “Mother Wound.” It is often dismissed as a grievance against one’s actual mother—a list of complaints about her being too critical, too distant, or too intrusive. But...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | May 29, 2025 | Alternative Medicine and Holistic Health, Free Resources for Therapists in Private Practice, Psychology Topics and Articles, Therapy Resources, Tips and Tools
Buy the Book How Edward Teyber’s Revolutionary Approach Transformed My Journey from Anxious Student to Confident Therapist I still remember sitting in my social work school classroom, frantically taking notes on CBT protocols and DBT worksheets, feeling...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles, Recovering from Abuse, Self Help and Personal Development, Somatic Experiencing In Alabama
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral’s Kiss Childhood trauma casts a long shadow. Even if we can’t remember the specifics of what happened to us,...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 4, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles
Parts-Based Therapy and the Inner Critic Have you ever noticed a harsh, critical voice in your head that seems to constantly put you down? A voice that tells you you’re not good enough, smart enough, attractive enough, or worthy enough? If so, you’re not...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 3, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles, Recovering from Abuse
How Can you Heal Narcissistic Abuse in Therapy? “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” -Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Narcissistic abuse is a form of emotional and...
by Joel Blackstock LICSW-S MSW PIP no. 4135C-S | Feb 3, 2025 | Psychology Topics and Articles, Self Help and Personal Development
When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is dead, and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt, and the heroine has studied her face and its defects remorselessly, and the pain they thought might, as a token of their earnestness, release...
