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Learnings from My Latest Rotation Around the Sun
This last year has been about finding my way back to myself. In the last 5 years of becoming a mom, it’s been really hard to remain centered within myself. Add managing a business and two little boys during a pandemic and it’s no wonder I (and most of us) feel a bit frayed.
Not Just for Kids, Art Therapy is for Adults
In the early years of our species, before we wrote, we drew abstractly & we tried to capture the world around us through representational drawings.
Could You Use a Mental Performance Coach?
Each coach is specifically trained for their role through experience, certifications, workshops, and education. However, these coaches aren’t trained to manage the mental side of sport. Mental Performance Coaches (MPC) are there to teach athletes the skills not only address an athlete’s mindset but improve it.
When You Feel Like an Angry Parent
And when I’m tired, I get irritable. Maybe angry. Lose my cool quicker.
And all of this: burnout.
How to Live in a Dreadful World
I want to figure out a way, maybe even just tools, to continue to smile, be hopeful, and grateful in a world that feels increasingly suffocating.
How to Handle The Pain We’ve Caused & The Pain of Others
The habit of rescuing others from their pain and abandoning myself in the process. Not wanting anyone to be upset with me and wanting to please.
The Book That Broke Me
Quotes, lyrics, and the various forms in which words present themselves have always been healing tools for me.
The Important Purpose of Anger
As much as I try to distance myself from the news, this week was unavoidable. I’ve noticed when I experience bad news, I let anger hold me for a minute and then I get scared.
But this week, I want to talk about how it’s time to rage.
The Best Way to Fight Climate Change
I say all of this because climate change action requires each of us to show up as our authentic selves. It requires us to be living by our values, stay open to connection and have the space to notice opportunities to do something.
What Are We Doing Wrong?
Preventative mental health care is essential. As a practice, we have known that for years, and thus why we have developed tools and systems to get ahead of the problem in children so that mild anxiety, depression, and risk factors do not develop into more extreme and intense disorders later in life.
Social Anxiety in Adults (It's More Common Than You Think)
Turns out, social anxiety in adults is on the rise. Maybe we just didn’t have the words for it before, but if you too are feeling extra nervous, avoidant, and in your head facing social situations: you are not alone.
Whose Side is My Kid’s Therapist On?
We know that all kids are facing uniquely challenging times too, with more rational fears of systemic violence, comparison, pandemic isolation, disordered eating, and increasing suicide rates.
Making Sense of a Messy World
I wanted to not feel so alone in my fears. I wanted to feel like other people were feeling the same dread, panic, and grief as me. I think this is okay.
The Gifts of Mindfulness and Co-Regulation in Relationships
It’s February. And whether you think Valentine’s Day is a holiday worth celebrating or not, maybe there is an opportunity here in this month to take the time to reflect on how we are showing up in our relationships with our partners.
How to Handle a Long Winter
During the winter, as colder temperatures and icy streets usher me more indoors I find myself having to be much more creative to entertain and satisfy myself
The Beauty of Different
Children especially should not and do not need to make decisions based on historical bias, gendered narratives, or most importantly, what other people may think.
How Do I Find My True Self?
Do you know who you are?
Do you know who you are in the absence of your worries, fears, and the stories you tell yourself?
For me, it’s a remembering, unlayering and an ongoing process of returning back to my true self.
How to Gain Body Freedom
How many of you are seeing more ads on social media for intermittent fasting, intuitive dieting (not a thing, btw), and fitness regimens for that beach body? This time of year seems to spur Diet Culture into overdrive and we are all the victims.
How to Be a Good Person
Now, developmentally kids can be mean as they learn boundaries, press against authority, and work to establish emotional regulation skills. But she mentioned that it feels kids are more reactive and therefore less curious, compassionate, and calm.
Why “Never Settle” Isn’t Always Right
Around this time of year, the pressure to change and do more is omnipresent. As New Year goals and Words of the Year make their way around, it can be familiar to want to push yourself to achieve, master, and overcome.