How to Make Agreements with Teens
When you and your child or teen reach agreements TOGETHER, the buy-in is stronger. They are more likely to follow through with genuine interest and commitment.
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 Use Curiosity Questions with Your Teen
When (not if) your teen presents an undesirable behavior or seems "shut down", you have an opportunity to ASK about it, rather than telling them about (aka lecturing them).
Tired Of Painful Breakdowns With Your Teen? Try This…
Do you ever feel like you’re having the SAME conversation, argument or breakdown with your teen or tween over and over again?
Quick Connections: Dealing with “No’s” and Refusals
You've heard the refusals. Follow this sequence of questions and prompts to solve the problem together
20 Ways to Be a Calm, Grounded Parent
Life seems to move pretty quickly these days, and grounding practices are an antidote to anxiety and overwhelm. Keep reading for 20 grounding practices to help yourself create more calm.
20 Ways to be Quiet with Your Family
Creating silent, mindful time with your children and teens IS quality time. Moments of quiet and calm support your family in developing openness and trust. Keep reading for 20 ways to enjoy quiet connection.
Planning My Escape: Two True Stories from a Mother
When we take the time to understand why we are feeling the pull to drop it all and start again, we can cultivate more compassion for ourselves. From that starting point, it is easier to understand why it is so important to create a life in which self-care is thoroughly embedded. Honoring our bodies and their natural processes encourages us to create systems of self-care the work to support your real life rather than wanting to escape it.
20 Ways to Slow Down Through Life’s Transitions
Slowing down is the most effective way to help yourself refuel. Because you can’t stop daily life, you can’t stop transitions. However, you can get intentional about slowing yourself and your family down. Keep reading for 20 Ways to slow down through life’s transitions.
Quick Connection: The Power of Walk and Talks
Have you ever tried a walk and talk with your teen? This could be a walk for exercise, sure, and it can also be entirely leisurely. In either case, walk and talk is communication strategy, a tool to remember when you have a pressing idea to process with your teen or when you can tell they are feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or frustrated. Being next to your teen, or "sideways talking," as opposed to face-to-face, can open the space for conversation-- literally and metaphorically. This orientation often feels less confrontational and more spacious for young people. For some teens, it can be safer to be next to adults when it comes to tough conversations and topics, or even asking for help.