Teen Mental Health

Articles by Jodi Aman about therapy with real clients recovering from depression, abuse, anxiety and relationship problems.

Anxiety...I'm So Done with You! Podcast

Welcome to My New Teen Anxiety Podcast: Anxiety…I’m So Done with You!

Welcome to “Anxiety… I’m So Done With You!” with me, Dr. Jodi. This podcast series accompanies my book for teens and young adults grappling with anxiety and depression. Together, the book and podcast are a complete guide to (1) ditch the toxic stress in your life and (2) hone the skills to hardwire your brain […]

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mental resilience

Improve Your Mental Resilience In Four Steps

What is this whole “mental resilience” thing? Do you need it? Do you have it? How do you know you have it? And, perhaps most importantly: Can you cultivate it? If so, how do you do that? Let’s start with why we need resilience. We see so many people suffering daily; friends, family, and strangers

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covid worries

Keeping it together through COVID Worries: Robust Mental Health in a Time of Social Distancing

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

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be a really good friend

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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end of tunnel

What do you do if there is no light at the end of the tunnel?

This blog about the end of the tunnel came from a question from a woman on my Facebook Page about what you can do if you can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. My heart breaks for her. This is a place of despair that nobody deserves, yet many find themselves there. pain, hopelessness,

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