Trauma-informed mental health advice for parents.
There is a growing problem in the world today. Our young people are feeling out of control, unworthy and powerless. This causes so many problems for them and for our culture as a whole. Here is what teens say they are up against: That’s why I wrote Anxiety…I’m So Done with You! To empower teens […]
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When you see these red flags in your relationships, they might be deal-breakers. When you’re in an unhealthy relationship with a selfish or narcissistic person, it can be damaging and take a long time to recover. Of course its best not to get into them, but if you do-get out as fast as you can.
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
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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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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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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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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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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