Resources
Identity
You can start with the one closest to what you need to look at right now. You don't have to read them all.
Supporting your teen without rushing them to define themselves
Identity in adolescence is built in motion. What a teen needs in order to explore without getting boxed into a label.
2 min read
What's expected as identity takes shape
The questions that open up at this stage, what is part of the process and what deserves attention.
2 min read
How to talk about identity, gender and sexuality without shutting down
These topics touch adults' deep values and fears. What shuts things down and what opens things up.
2 min read
When their identity stirs things up in the family: looking at my expectations
Sometimes what hurts isn't the change itself, but the gap between it and the picture the adults had.
2 min read
When the search comes with distress
Intense confusion, insecurity, isolation or fear of being seen. The job isn't to define who they are for them, but to look at how they are experiencing it.
2 min read
Disagreeing while still supporting your teen
Not agreeing with something about who your teen is isn't the same as not accepting them. And when it's worth talking to a professional.
2 min read
When there is intense suffering, rejection or risk
Identity is not an emergency. The emergency is the suffering, the risk, the violence or the isolation.
3 min read
To go deeper
Raíces is a space to look at what it was like for you to make a place of your own, and how your family responded to your differences.