Tailoring the conversation to your child’s specific needs is key to fostering emotional safety and understanding.

You know that feeling when your brain is saying, "Relax, it's a break!"  but your nervous system is screaming, "EVERYTHING IS WRONG"?  ...

Holiday get-togethers can be stressful but you can learn to bring yourself back to a state of safety and connection!

“Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go..I wanna be sedated. Nothing to do nowhere to go- oh…” -Ramones Y’all. It’s been a different...

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace...

Narcissuses was a character from Greek mythology who could not look away from his own reflection. He fell in love with his reflection in...

I’m so glad you’re here! I’m grateful you have decided to grace the activist world with your specific brand of badassery.

Adult children can have different political views and raise their own children with their same values, which may or may not hold.

“People are hard to hate up close. Move in.”- Brené Brown In my practice, I talk a LOT about gratitude. Sometimes I find myself in a...

Suicide is a word that gets everyone’s attention. It’s a word that evokes fear, despair, helplessness, and anger to many people. To those...

What are rainbow babies?  They are the babies that are born to a mother after she faces miscarriage or stillbirth. 

My family was thrown for another loop this week. Last week I sent my high school kids back on hybrid schedule and my elementary school...

It's designed to use your body and pressure points to help jolt you out of your head or dissociations into your body and feeling grounded

Alexa talks about emotional courage and reads Ibex (slumberking) by Kelly Oriard with Collie Christensen. #empathy #socialemotionallearning

TIPP is a coping strategy that we can use to take us out of our fight/flight/freeze mode

“She said, 'I'm so afraid.' And I said, 'why?,' and she said, 'Because I'm so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is...

“Men do not quit playing because they grow old.  They grow old because they quit playing.”- Oliver Windell Holmes How many times has...

“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” ― Marcus Aurelius In our country today, it surely feels like we are...

This is the final installment of the three part series focusing on anger.  I believe, given the current social and interpersonal climate,...

While the feelings are natural, how we express and process that feeling can have unwanted consequences.