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Teaching Teenagers about Emotional Resilience is Easy

Teaching Teenagers about Emotional Resilience is Easy

Emotions, Parenting, Teens

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No, it’s Not Impossible to Find a Therapist for Teenagers

No, it’s Not Impossible to Find a Therapist for Teenagers

Parenting, Teens, therapist

Last month I wrote a blog titled 5 Tips for Picking a Therapist for Your Teen. It published 7 days ago, and three days after that, I got a text from a dear friend that went something like this: “…Why is it so ^%$##!!!! hard to find a therapist for my...
Resources and Support for Parenting a Mental Health Crisis

Resources and Support for Parenting a Mental Health Crisis

crisis, Parenting, Teens

Crisis, noun: A time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger.  Support, verb: To give assistance to; enable to function or act. Here’s a common thread I notice running through our conversations lately: the holidays are are a particularly challenging time of...
Parenting Adolescent Depression During the Holidays

Parenting Adolescent Depression During the Holidays

depression, Family, health, Parenting, suicide

Connection. Closeness. Joy. Laughter. Rest. Abundance. At Restoring Relationships, we’re starting to talk about how we yearn for these things, and how the holidays can be so painful because yearning is NOT the same as experiencing. We’re talking about how,...
Family as a Means of Practicing Forgiveness and Gratitude

Family as a Means of Practicing Forgiveness and Gratitude

Family, gratitude, Parenting, vulnerability

Thanksgiving is tomorrow, and it brings to mind a story of gratitude. I remember taking my then sixteen-year-old on an international journey two years ago. Out of my husband and I, I had drawn what was considered by most to be the “long straw” -the chosen...
My Teen is Vaping-Help!

My Teen is Vaping-Help!

health, Parenting, substance use, Teens, Uncategorized, vaping

  A text came in as I was leaving work: “I’m worried about Caleb*. He was caught vaping by a teacher and was suspended. If that wasn’t bad enough, his grades have been slipping and now he can’t play in the next basketball game because...
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