FOCUS: A Tool for Prioritizing Academic To-Dos
I do my best to not have an agenda for what your academic life should look like. I am not here to add pressure or expectations. Instead, I care about…
How Prioritizing Relationship Over Task Creates Ease
Relationship > Task. This is a phrase I have written on my white board near my desk. It’s one I’ve brought into my work with clients— young people and parents. It’s one I return to often in my own processing. Major thanks to my therapist for introducing this language and co-creating a container for me to explore and embody this concept.
5 Tips for Dealing with Too Much Alone Time
Parents are worried that their teens are spending too much time in their rooms with the door shut, often on screens, and teens are doing their best to figure out how to stay connected and engaged during these strange times.
Best friends in summer, teen boys and girls in Los Angeles
An Honest Look at the Transitional Young Adult Years
Many young adults I’ve worked with have described this time as a sort of in-between or limbo experience. I can relate to that when I think back to my late teens and early 20s.
7 Ways to Get Stuff Done When It Feels Hard
Sometimes stuff just feels hard. And in this space of challenge, you may want or need to get the damn thing done.
Growing Spaciousness in How You Think about Time
The idea of “not enough” is a manifestation of lack mentality or scarcity mentality. When your thinking is focused on the ways that something or someone is “not _____ enough,” you are stuck in scarcity thinking.
The Power of Sharing Loving Words with Friends and Family
when we take the time to feel and then reach out to a trusting, loving other, connection can grow. I also find that when I open up and let someone know I care, I feel like my most authentic self.
Young woman using a smartphone in a subway
How to Shift All or Nothing Thinking Into Compassionate Accountability
Sometimes our brains take us into the realm of extremes, the place of all or nothing thinking. This way of thinking is often quite harsh and not compassionate. These are…
What to Do When You Have Different Values than Your Friend
Values are beliefs that guide my actions. They are at the foundation of my intentional choices and behaviors. In other words, values can be things I hold pretty near and dear.
Why BFFs Might be a Myth: Real Talk About Friendship
Friendship qualms, questions, concerns, and curiosities are one of the most frequent topics of conversation in my sessions with young people.
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- …
- 10
- Go to the next page