Supporting Your Teen Through Mental Health Challenges

For heaven’s sake, toughen up. If your teen had been with you when you were young, they’d never survive! Bullying and name calling were leadership skills (on and off the school grounds) and no one was coming running if you felt offended or triggered. You survived so much worse…minus social media and a global pandemic. […]

Top 5 Apps and Tips to Reduce Stress and Anxiety in the dumpster fire of 2020

This pandemic isn’t your average day-to-day exhaustion. Getting your teen out of bed for online school they hate or the constant nagging to complete homework assignments they don’t seem to care about is wearing you down. Add in protocols making everyday tasks feel epic, working from home with constant interruption and financial stresses, and your […]

7 Ways to Survive a Christmas Quarantine

Family – people who bring familiarity and comfort, while pushing all your buttons at the same time. Travelling on winter roads or formerly packed airplanes was never actually fun anyway. Even a few days with your parents in their ‘82 degree sweat lodge’ on the blow-up mattress in the den that sprung a slow leak […]

The Mental Health diagnosis – our journey with anxiety

Until they were VERY different. My son had an obsessive level of focus by 18 months old. He wasn’t playing with his toys, he was watching how they worked – the way the wheels turned and how those wheels contacted various surfaces. He would use his toys to do the same 3-4 repetitive movements….for 2 […]