Category: parenting strategies
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Mind Body Tips – EMOTION
I’ve been asked this past year by the terrific pediatricians at Evergreen Pediatric to create /write mental health tips for their community. I decided to emphasize the mind-body connection as it’s so important to know from a young age to understand how interconnected our minds and bodies are. The tips are meant to be evidence-based,…
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5 Steps to Nervous System Safety
An important reframing of our nervous system to stay more regulated and connected to our environments.
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Good Enough: The Fallacy of Perfection in Relationships
“Good enough” is the safest and most profound way of being that we can embrace relationships as humans. Yet, it often feels like the most unimaginable, mid-level “meh” in a world that constantly presents the “right way,” the “wrong way,” and the “perfect way.” The truth is, ALL relationships—whether between friends, parents and children, or…
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Independence Training 101
7 Tips For Parents All children and adolescents live daily without fully functioning executive function areas of the brain—the prefrontal cortex fully develops around age 25, unless there are underlying brain processing issues. Between birth and that time, there is a long skill-building period where we train our brains through experiences. It is through experience…
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