A theme has cropped up in my practice lately. I first suspected that attachment wounding was the culprit, but then I wondered if it was more nuanced than that. Parents were expressing profound distress as their children individuated. Mostly their children were adolescents, but there were adult children too (some children are late to the individuation game). This distress went beyond the ordinary grief that parents feel for the lost closeness of early childhood. These symptoms bore a closer resemblance to those seen in addiction withdrawal, complex trauma, or deep attachment wounding.​

I DON’T BELIEVE there are any shortcuts in life. This is one of my core beliefs and while therapy teaches us the value in questioning our core beliefs, this one has continually held up under scrutiny. So when I was at a party the other night and someone told me that one medicine-assisted-therapy session (specifically, LSD) was like getting a year’s worth of therapy in one go, I got curious.