How to Survive Homework Time with Your Teen
Parents reach out and ask, “How can we experience fewer nights of overwhelm and freak out over homework?!” And “How much should I be helping them?!”
How to Apologize to Your Teenager
When (not if) you make a “mistake,” you have an “opportunity to repair” the connection with your teenager.
How To Make Your Holidays Peaceful And Easeful
No matter where you fall on the spectrum of stress and ease as you anticipate the next event, intention-setting can be a powerful practice. Intentions will support you in staying clear and grounded both individually and as a family.
How to Celebrate Your Teenager’s Zone of Genius
Your zone of genius helps you understand your strengths and actively work towards them each day.
How to Use Giving and Receiving for Self-Care
Your awareness of your relationship to giving and receiving can help you make decisions, set intentions, and initiate self-care.
How To Be A Positivity Dork
If I see another t-shirt tell me to force a smile on my face, it’s on. The only thing worse than having an awful day is spending energy pretending it isn’t one. Today’s trends of relentless positivity not only irritate me, but wickedly twist what a positive outlook on life can actually be.
3 Ways to Embrace and Achieve Your Goals
Throughout your work on a big goal or project, it's important to check in with your purpose, your why.
You are Not Your Family, You are YOU
While experiencing a pretty intense emotional reaction, I remembered a powerful truth: I AM NOT MY FAMILY. Their thoughts, behaviors, and actions do not belong to me, do not define me, and do not limit me.
Saying “I Need Help” is the Bravest Thing I Have Ever Done
Emotions and feelings that you’ve never experienced before can overwhelm you. That’s okay. Let them run their course. Feel your feels. But on the other side, there is always going to be a way to get the help you need.
How To Hold Kind and Firm Limits With Your Teens
Limits don’t negate choices. Limits aren’t consequences or punishment. Instead, limits help young people understand boundaries-- their own and other people’s.