Understanding worry, fear, and anxiety problems and learning what to do about them.
Are you feeling all COVID worries right now? Having trouble consistently keeping it together? Feeling okay and calm one minute while you laugh at what someone gets up to in their free time, only to lose your shizzle the next moment because you dripped peanut butter on your sock? (The ones that you finally changed […]
Do you ever feel burnout? Sometimes I just can’t face more computer work! My mind is on overdrive trying to get it all done. The list is never-ending. More requests coming in. Each task taking way longer than it ought to. My back hurts from being stationary and hunched over my laptop. People are suffering
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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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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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Since my recent TEDxWilmington talk was only 10 minutes, I wrote a few blogs to cover what I didn’t get to share in it. Today, I am expanding on kids’ resistance and complaining when asked to do chores because that shizzle is real! You can check out some of my other TEDx blogs here: Dealing
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Kids hate chores. Of course, they do. I don’t prefer doing them much, either! I’d rather relax and do fun activities with my friends. Luckily, because of my life experience, I’m able to see the long-term and short-term benefits of chores that young people usually haven’t learned yet. This helps me do them because it
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Here is my TEDxWilmington talk on anxiety in kids and teens and how it is exacerbated by kids not learning cause and effect. Watch the talk and read the written version below. We have a crisis on our hands: Anxiety among children and teenagers is growing to epidemic proportions. To solve it, let’s first understand
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This is a big one, guys. Like huge. The fear of public speaking is often larger than the fear of death for many people. Even the thought of having to say a few words in front of a group of people- small or large- can be incredibly panic-inducing. “Everyone will be looking at me!” “What
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