Doctor Jodi

Jodi Aman, Doctor of Social Work, is a psychotherapist, author, and speaker. Using her unique and varied training, rooted ethics, and 28 years of experience as a trauma-informed psychotherapist, Dr. Jodi guides sensitive souls in releasing what they don't want, strengthening their emotional bandwidth, and creating a happy, purposeful life. With her videos, courses, TedxWilmington talk, and award-winning books, she's supported over two million people.

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How to Be a Good Friend, How to Be a Good Parent: Don’t Make These Mistakes!

You have a good heart; you want to be a good friend, parent, teacher, counselor. I know because people who didn’t care about being helpful to the people they love wouldn’t be reading this blog post. Before I share the ways to be a good friend and a good parent, you should know that the

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How to Teach Empathy to Your Teen – And WHY THEY WILL THANK YOU!

Some people are born with an innate sense of what others feel. They have a good imagination and consciously direct it to put themselves in another person’s shoes. Perhaps at one point in the etymology of the word empathy, it meant that “you know what another feels because you have been through the same thing.”

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4 Things Kids Need To Be Happy – Improve the Mental Health of Your Teen

When you want to know the things kids need to be happy, you have to first look at what makes them unhappy. When I gathered a teen focus group to help me come up with a title for my upcoming workbook for young people, this is what they listed as the major problems they were

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Survive the Holidays! Handling Holiday Stress Without Losing Your Mind

How are you handling holiday stress? One definition of stress is feeling a big responsibility for something, while you also feel like you have little to no control over it. Like with many of the things that come with the holidays: Family or work parties you are expected to attend. Dealing with old traumas related

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Create a Vision Board: Manifest Your Soul-Expanding, Body-Aligning Vision for 2019

Want to know how to create a soul-expanding, body-aligning future? Put some time and energy into planning, opening and nurturing it! One excellent tried and true (not to mention fun!) way to commit to this process is to create a vision board. In this post, I’ll show you how. But before you get crafty and

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Surprising Benefits of Singing on Your Physical and Emotional Health

Many years ago, I went to a workshop with medical intuitive, Christel Nani, and she was teaching us how to open our chakras by changing our limiting beliefs. This is when I first witnessed the benefits of singing. There was a man in the audience who stood up with a question. Through wet eyes and

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