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What's in Your Closet? Were you afraid of the dark when you were a child? I was. I remember the terror that accompanied my parents saying good night followed by the click of the light switch. My world was plunged into pure blackness, softened only by the lazy yellow...
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How To Know You’re Isolating [Video]
I help adolescent girls and their families, who are hurting, angry, and struggling to find their way through life's challenges, to create real and lasting change. (Visit Hannah's Profile) Call for Free Consultation Our Best Ideas On: Relationships, Connecting, &...
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How to Promote Emotional Balance in Your Family
Self-regulation is making quite a splash in the academic and child development worlds. Maybe you’ve seen your child practicing a mindfulness activity from school involving squeezing imaginary oranges in their hands while they take deep breaths. Or maybe you are...
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Building a Shared Experience During the Busy Times
How busy are you these days? If you are like most adults in a committed relationship, you are probably juggling work with many other responsibilities, such as school, a second job, parenting, or serving as a caregiver to aging family members. Staying healthy and...
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3 Ways to Address Stress in Your Life
You know the feeling. You wake up in the morning and already feel like you are behind. Your heart and your thoughts are racing. During the day when a friend or co-worker asks how you are doing, you reply, “I’m overwhelmed.” You are stressed. Most stress is born in the...
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3 Ways Pornography Can Destroy Your Life.
In the last couple decades, with the new normal of in-home computers, the internet, and smartphones in the hands of most of the population, we have come to experience speed and instantaneousness in ways that were previously unfathomable. Our lives have changed so...
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How to Not Argue So Much As A Couple
Every couple argues. No matter how in love or connected a couple might seem, behind closed doors, there are always disagreements that escalate into arguments.Many of us in relationships battle over “big ticket items” that might relate to conflicting values, such as...
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How to Take Control of Your Emotions [VIDEO]
Emotions can be dominant at times. So dominant, that they drive us to react in ways we later wish we hadn’t. Today I’d like to talk to you about regulating the intensity of your own emotions. Our emotions are fundamental in helping us understand our experience of the...
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How to Reconnect with Your Kids After Conflict [VIDEO]
Being a parent is HARD work, and it involves its fair share of conflict along the way! Do you ever find yourself wondering what to do after you have lost your cool or you and your child have experienced conflict? Maybe you are feeling stuck in a swirl of frustrating...
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The Moods of Alzheimer’s
If you’re living with or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s, then you may wonder why they’re irritable one minute and compliant the next. It’s enough to drive you crazy! Alzheimer’s is deceptive. It doesn’t just affect the part of the brain that helps to remember and...
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