By Elyse Gorman, Writer and founder of NotesonBliss.com We spend so much time doing our best work on the outside — working on our bodies, careers, relationships, cooking skills and goals. It’s just as important to spend time doing work on the inside — developing deep and lasting self-love, acceptance and compassion. The more we can […]
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By Alice Jones Webb It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that kids these days just aren’t getting outside very much. Drive through any suburban neighborhood on a Saturday and the groups of bicycling youngsters and impromptu street football games that were so common just a couple of decades ago just aren’t there. Corralled
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By Sarah Noel, MS, LMHC, Person Centered/ Rogerian Psychotherapy Imagine your best friend comes to you deeply distraught—her father died six months ago, and her mother’s health is rapidly deteriorating. Over the past year, she has been consumed with managing care and legal issues, making funeral preparations, and grieving. Naturally, some things at work and at
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Putting space between you and your reaction allows you to respond with kindness—and gets you out of autopilot mode with your children, Mitch Abblett writes. In any moment as parents, we can choose to react or let it go. I’ve witnessed moments of parents I was working with holding tongues instead of lashing out, of
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By Jennie Lee One of the most universal human fears is the fear of dying. It is instinctual to act in ways that preserve life and rightly so, for we are not meant to seek death. However fear of dying, which is as much a part of life as being born, limits our ability to
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Quotes from Eckhart Tolle, Book of Now 1. The present moment is the most precious thing there is. “People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.” “…the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of
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By Sherrie Campbell, Ph.D, Veteran, licensed Psychologist To parent our children to live exceptional lives and become exceptional people, we must teach them to have the fortitude to stand tall no matter what is happening. We accomplish this by parenting them to commit to consistent progress and productivity towards their goals, and to accept them when
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By Betsy Smith, MEd, LPC-S, Oppostional and Defiant Behaviors in Children and Teens, Topic Experct Contributor “Discipline just doesn’t work for my child! We have tried everything and nothing works!” Does this sound familiar? Are you frustrated that timeouts, positive reinforcement, or even threats don’t seem to be effective at addressing your child’s oppostional behavior?
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by Sarah Lebo, LPC, CADCI One of the foundational ideas to dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a worldview based in dialectics. This theme resonates with a lot of people, and can even enhance the ways we think about and interact with other people. What is it and why is it a big deal? Mirriam-Webster defines it
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