Empowering Our Children, Empowering Ourselves

by | May 21, 2014

I had an incident with my eldest son several weeks ago that led me to think about how I label and assign roles to my children based on their temperament, characteristics and what feelings they provoke in me based on my own personal challenges. I got a call from the...

Fostering Self-Compassion

by | May 19, 2014

I’m sitting at a two day conference on the topic of shame and self-loathing and the speaker spent time speaking about the role of attachment in regard to shame. Imagine spending a whole two days learning about shame! Does the word exhausting come to mind? Yes! How...

Some Skepticism About Obesity

by | May 14, 2014

Earlier this year, JAMA reported that obesity rates among children decreased among 2-5 year olds, researchers at the University of North Carolina contradicted that finding. In an effort to reassure us, on May 4th, Emanuel and Steinmetz stated that we have a reason to...