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Martha Manning, Ph.D.

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The Narrative Arc

Time Flies When You’re Growing Up

Have we wasted precious time in our marriage?

5h ago

Two people in jeans from thigh down in green path down to water

5h ago

Published in
ILLUMINATION

Don’t Accept the Answers If You’re Not Allowed to Ask the Questions

Questions are a critical means of maintaining control over chaos

5d ago

Don’t Accept the Answers If You’re Not Allowed to Ask the Questions

5d ago

Published in
Invisible Illness

Coming Back

My recurrent mental illness means that I get lost a lot, but sometimes I manage to find my way home

Mar 4

Coming Back

Mar 4

Published in
The Narrative Arc

The Snow, the Pope and My Sister

The strangest moments in the present can land you right back to the past

Feb 23

child making snow angel

Feb 23

Published in
Unfaithful: Perspectives on the Third-Party Relationship

There’s No One Perfect Couple’s Therapy

And it’s a terrible idea to try to do it yourselves

Feb 16

There’s No One Perfect Couple’s Therapy

Feb 16

Published in
Age of Empathy

When It Comes to Love, I Believe in Signs

Deep in my past, they point my heart towards the future

Feb 13

Photo of two sets of legs, on the left a woman in a white dress and white high heels, on the right a man wearing brown oxfords and gray pants with green socks

Feb 13

Published in
The Wind Phone

I’ll See You in My Dreams

I thought my grief was ‘over’ but it just went underground

Feb 12

I’ll See You in My Dreams

Feb 12

Published in
Age of Empathy

My Brothers and Sisters: Silk and Sandpaper

Why our sibling rivalries live on way past childhood

Feb 10

My Brothers and Sisters: Silk and Sandpaper

Feb 10

Published in
The Memoirist

My Husband and I Are Together Again, But It’s Not the Same

Perfect closure is a myth after a marriage flies apart

Feb 7

My Husband and I Are Together Again, But It’s Not the Same

Feb 7

I’m Glad My Father Is Dead

What’s happening now with the FBI would have broken his heart

Feb 6

I’m Glad My Father Is Dead

Feb 6

Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Martha Manning, Ph.D.

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Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.

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