You are going through the motions of parenting but your heart isn’t it anymore - and you don’t want to stay stuck there.

As a mom of four, both adoptive and biological, this is something I’ve experienced many times - and I hear from most of the parents I work with.

There’s actually a term used to describe this shift: blocked care.

Learning what it was, and understanding what was happening underneath it, brought a level of relief I didn’t expect.