Jennifer A. Naspinski, MS, LPC

09/22/2025

Once you understand how imposed silence actually affects people, you’ll want to think twice before you freeze out that annoying family member, Arthur C. Brooks wrote in 2024. And you’ll be better equipped to deal with it if you’re on the receiving end.
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Research shows that “being ignored initially provokes reflexive anger and sadness, followed by reflection on the motives and meaning of the treatment,” Brooks wrote. But when persistent over time, the silent treatment can cause resignation—“not the resignation of being reconciled with a situation but a miserable state of alienation, hopelessness, and depression.”

And it can impair a victim’s overall competence. One experiment showed that participants who experienced silent rejection found it more difficult to think clearly and complete complex tasks, making it “effective in satisfying the inflictor’s aggression,” but also an “intensely cruel and disproportionate way to deal with conflict,” Brooks wrote.

At the link, Brooks shared three practical lessons to get the silent treatment out of your life.

🎨: Jan Buchczik

09/19/2025

If you’ve ever been in a conversation with someone who, in the face of clear wrongdoing, denied everything; counterattacked instead of showing contrition; or played the victim and cast you as the real offender, you might have just been mugged by DARVO, Arthur C. Brooks writes. https://theatln.tc/HOXN17nv

🎨: Jan Buchczik

08/20/2025

I cannot recommend books, blog posts and following this author on social media for the smartest and refreshing all around approach about mental health from a non professional. Seriously. If you are not familiar with her, invest the time.

Y’all. This should be a fancy-ass, glossy post where I breezily tell you about something I’m so excited about and I should be wearing a suit while talking to a news anchor as I toss my …

07/23/2025

Many of us deeply one love, and have been taught I fear it. This is an attachment style where we can go hot or cold. We can come on strong and seek security— they feel a strong desire to self isolate.

Attachment is wired into our biology, but it’s also fluid. Through healthy communication, awareness, and a partner who is willing to do the work we can all be more secure.

Do you notice this in yourself?

07/23/2025

Good luck, everyone.

07/23/2025

07/11/2025

Sweatpants & Coffee

06/23/2025

I HIGHLY recommend this event
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06/21/2025

Almost 19 million U.S. children—1 in 4—lived with at least one parent or primary caregiver who had a substance use disorder in 2023.

06/21/2025

In Jordan Michelman’s household, Saturday is “Dad-urday”—a ritual ​​that grew out of a family-logistics decision, and that has helped transform his experience of fatherhood. https://theatln.tc/3vTwDP5m

06/21/2025

Yung Pueblo