Thoughts of a Therapist
Parenting With Emotional Intelligence
An Aspect Of Parenting That’s Too Often Overlooked. An eight-year-old child was murdered by her father. I got flooded with calls from parents who were concerned about explaining the death to their children. They couldn’t avoid it because details of the death were...
52 Critical Questions to Ask Yourself to Ensure That You’re Living a Mindful & Meaningful Life
There are constant reminders about how fragile and unpredictable life can be. We see examples of it every day. Although we have limited control over the curve balls that gets thrown our way, we do have control over ensuring that we’re living our best life no matter...
Where Has the Time Gone? Sending Your Child off to College
I saw a college bound young adult in my practice last week who described needing to create emotional distance between him and his parents in order to make the experience of leaving more manageable and palpable. He effort-fully tried to create tension, but his parents...
The Valuable Life Lessons 28 Years of Exercising Taught Me
Throughout the years, I minored in nutrition and became a group fitness instructor that helped to financially support me through college and graduate school. My health value was certainly tested with my four pregnancies, where I gained 75 pounds with each, and within...
Manchester Terrorism: Targeting Our Children Evokes Fear on a Whole New Level
I can’t get the sight out of my mind of the parents pleading to the public soliciting help to find their 15-year-old daughter, or, the family where the 8-year-old little girl was killed and her sister and mother lay in the hospital fighting for their lives. I think...
13 Reasons Why Highlights Our Parenting Responsibility to Foster Open Communication With Our Children
The Netflix series 13 Reasons Why received a lot of media attention because of the array of feelings and concerns it raised among parents, practitioners, school administrators, and many others. Their concern is around it’s graphic content, controversial issues,...
