The Unnamed Losses of Coronavirus. We are Grieving.
My heart goes out to everyone feeling the losses of the coronavirus and the ripples in its wake. See if these ideas can help soften the edge of your grief.
When Coronavirus Closes Your Teens’ School, Cures for Parent Stress
I'd been feeling pretty calm in the face of coronavirus until Sunday, when wave after wave of new...
When You’re at the End of Your Rope Parenting Your Teen’s Failing Grades, Do This
It’s gotten bad: when missing assignments or missed school days pile up, hang on a sec. There are other factors at play.
Building Independence With Your Teen: The 4 -Step Approach
Studies show that when parents take stress away from kids, parent’s stress level decreases. Guess what happens to a kid’s stress level? It increases. Learn how to move your teen towards independence and calm with this approach.
Teaching Teenagers about Emotional Resilience is Easy
Want to be closer and happier? Teach each other about emotional tolerance.
Do’s and Dont’s: The Parent Guide to Teen Relationship Breakups
Post breakup-ouch. It can be confusing, sad, and painful. How to say, and do, the most comforting things.
Helping Teens Increase Thought Control for Calming Down
Finding your Wise Mind to reduce anxiety and increase control of your thoughts.
Anxiety and Teens: What’s Normal and What’s Not?
Anxiety is common and, if needed, treatable. But when should you seek out therapy?
No, it’s Not Impossible to Find a Therapist for Teenagers
Is it really as hard as it looks to find a good therapist? No. Without a doubt, you can find committed and high quality therapists who know how to provide effective care with consistency and integrity.
Caring for Suicidal Teens-5 Success Stories
Staring into the face of these kinds of gut-wrenching questions and devastating grief and loss caused by suicide, I’m moved to talk about hopeful responses coming from individual choices and societal transformations. I want to talk about what’s working.
5 Tips for Picking a Therapist for Your Teen
So, how DO you pick a therapist for your teen?
How Teen Group Therapy Improves Tolerance for Others
If you’re a teen or a parent of a teen, you might want to consider attending one of Restoring Relationships’ groups, where the feeling of connection and belonging breaks the isolation and loneliness that creeps up this time of year.
Why Would my Teen Need Therapy?
Change is most possible when we feel uncomfortable. Therapy for teens is powerfully about self-advocacy that, when put into motion, realizes potential.
Resources and Support for Parenting a Mental Health Crisis
Crisis, noun: A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger. Support, verb: To give assistance to; enable to function or act.
Families can’t do crisis alone. Human beings are uniquely equipped with millions of neural pathways that are designed to seek out, make, and keep regular, frequent, and multiple connections with other humans, and they’re needed most in times of crisis.
Why Holidays are so Hard for Adolescents with Blended Families
Divorce or separation has best intentions- to re-create happiness, to acknowledge change, and to experience hope and renewed love.
But children and teens have the least access, and the most obstacles, to experiencing the best intentions of the change divorce and separation bring to families. And, as with any transition, there can be confusion, uncertainty, heightened emotions, and lots and lots of misunderstanding.
Parenting Adolescent Depression During the Holidays
Every day I’m reminded of the fierce, creative, and unending love parents have for their teenagers. This is about how to stay connected to that love if you’re parenting a depressed teen over the holidays.
Family as a Means of Practicing Forgiveness and Gratitude
Parenting teens can be exhausting and painful. Sometimes, vulnerability is at its peak when we make mistakes with them. How being grateful for finding forgiveness can ease the sting.
My Teen is Vaping-Help!
How do I help my teenager stop vaping? The consequences of a vaping habit are swift, but creating accessible resources has not kept pace. I am so lucky to be surrounded by devoted and intelligent mental health coworkers and colleagues, who helped me compile these guidelines to support parenting a vaping habit.
I Hate my Life and I’m Not OK- Can I go Out Tonight? How Teenagers deal with Feelings of Depression
Belonging. It’s a powerful antidote for feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, and sadness. Your teen already knows how to create belonging to combat feelings of depression-find out more!
Social media vs. face-to-face relationships: Does social media cause depression in teens?
Easy? No. But doable. A thoughtful conversation about the use of social media by adolescents, if it is linked to depression, and how to parent it with awareness and connection.