Read the one-page welcome letter excerpted from "Parents Have Feelings, Too: A Guide to Navigating Your Emotions So You And Your Family Can Thrive."

We can only meet our children’s feelings when we know how to meet our own.

My teenagers' dark and surly moods, my husband's anxiety, my mother's rare show of displeasure, and my father's anger and frugality, all...

We don’t get to pick our families. And, sometimes the family we have is just not what we want.

How would a little boy learn that it was good to express intimacy and affection if his own father could not? Answer: A little boy would not.