Adults
How to Know If You’re an Enmeshed Parent
What exactly is an enmeshed parent? There is a connection and, yet, a slight but decisive distinction between a helicopter parent, a narcissistic parent, and an enmeshed parent.A helicopter parent employs an excessively responsible parenting style that leads to overprotecting, overcontrolling, and over-perfecting their child. A narcissistic parent is so possessive that their child basically…
Read MoreHow to Recognize Parental Alienation – 8 Ways to Tell
After getting into trouble at school, a child casually reveals that they have no contact with one of their parents. In fact, they apparently have a very negative view of that parent and are glad to be rid of them. An adult enters psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, or relationships issues, unclear about why they have…
Read More5 Essential Keys on How to Avoid Parental Alienation
Most of us have probably heard horror stories of parental alienation. One parent deliberately targeting and sabotaging the other parent’s relationship with their child after a divorce. Either just to make themselves look good or exert some kind of control over their ex-spouse. The pain of such heinous actions can cut very deep. And the…
Read MoreGet Smart About Nutrition: How The Right Diet Can Reduce ADHD Symptoms
Sweets. It’s probably fair to say that you’re familiar with the obvious—and sometimes scary!—effects sugar can have on your child. And it’s probably also no overstatement that, as a concerned parent, you would rather handle your child’s ADHD naturally than resort to medication. Did you know that studies have actually shown the beneficial results a…
Read More5 Steps to Help You Reduce Test Anxiety and Make It Through Your Finals
The moment you enter the classroom you feel that dread rising within you. Today is the big test—the finals! You glance around to gauge how everyone else is feeling. Some chat with excitement, some smiling faces, and a few in quiet contemplation. You wonder, “are they feeling the same as I do?” With knees…
Read MoreDo You Suffer From Poor Motivation? – Here’s What You Can Do
Sometimes, tackling a project or task can seem like a trek through a desert. You start full of hope and motivation, focusing on the distant mountains where the goal of your journey lies. But with time, the pressure gets to you. Like the heat of the sun it beats down mercilessly, and with every step,…
Read MoreFood, Serotonin, and Depression: Improve Your Diet and Boost Your Mood
You’re feeling down, out-of-sorts, and unmotivated. Before you know it, you find yourself binging on chocolates, pastries, and soft drinks. Somehow, stuffing yourself with sweets and starchy carbohydrates chases that dark cloud that’s been hanging over your head away… at least for a time. Why? The Connection Between Food and Serotonin Serotonin is a neurotransmitter—the…
Read More10 Simple and Effective Ways to Motivate the Unmotivated
It’s staring at you. Looming over you like Mount Everest. That monumental task you know needs to get done, but that you’re completely unmotivated to tackle. You skirt around it. You try to ignore it. But it’s still there. Steadily bearing down on you, mocking you. You know the only way to get rid of…
Read MoreExposure Therapy: Why Directly Confronting Fears Helps OCD Sufferers
The most natural reaction to something we fear—be that people, objects, or situations—is usually to avoid it. Unfortunately, though, that innate action is often the least helpful response. Think, for example, of someone that suffers from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). The urge to eliminate or avoid something that they fear—contamination, harming others, losing control, etc.—is exactly…
Read MoreThe Holiday Blues: 9 Tips for Coping With the Stress of the Season
The holiday season is supposed to be full of peace, joy, and happiness—right? Then how come you often feel frazzled and dizzy just thinking of all the demands parties, shopping, baking, and entertaining put on you? And why do you shudder at the thought of all the obnoxious and unwelcome “guests” that invite themselves to…
Read MoreRaising Happy Children Despite Divorce – 7 Positive Co-Parenting Tips
As if your divorce hadn’t been difficult enough—now you find yourself in the situation where you still have to work side by side with your ex. Cooperating to raise your children together, yet apart—called co-parenting—is anything but easy. But it is doable. The most important thing you have to remember is: It’s not about you!…
Read MoreYou’re Not Missing Out! – 6 Simple Ways to Get Rid of Your FOMO
OMG, you haven’t checked your social media accounts in the last hour? Do you have any idea what you’re missing out on? Your cousin shared pictures from the awesome party she went to last weekend. Your club buddies posted another episode of the travel log from their trek through that exotic country you can’t even…
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