It is a wonderful honor to have a guest blogger with me today! Carmen Marie Djemalian is also known as TheNewHappyMe. Through her blog site TheNewHappyMe.com and her daily interactions on her facebook fanpage, she helps men and women step into self-rediscovery, take action and improve their life. Here’s one of her motivational stories. Five years ...…
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Yep, you read that correctly…this is my topic for today. It seems that any person connected to an adolescent these days is faced with the issue of cutting. There are many forms of self-mutilation, but I want to focus on cutting today. Cutting is one of the most difficult issues for parents to face. Yes, ...…
Ahh…it’s Friday and I’ve spent the week thinking about Stress Tolerance Levels. What are they? How do they get created? How can we expand them in ourselves and in our children? The ability to tolerate stress is all about skill building! We start learning this in infancy and we develop this skill throughout our life. ...…
As a therapist who sees teenagers, I get this questioned posed to me often…Stacy, I don’t want my child to drop out of school, but they refuse to go and I don’t know what to do. What should I do? I often approach this topic from “what is your child communicating to the rest of ...…
Ambiguity means “unclear.” The theme in my office this week is all about how to tolerate a teenager’s struggle with making a decision, mostly a decision about what they want their future to look like. I call this skill “tolerating ambiguity.” I see the struggles that parents have when a teenager cannot decide what they ...…
Since I have been in private practice I have oftentimes said to families, “I have a no kill policy.” Parents and children just look at me with the oddest looks. Then, I go onto explain, “Sometimes, especially in our families, we have really strong emotions that make us angry and want to attack the ones ...…
As I celebrated Easter with my family, I pondered all of the “make believe” personas in our lives. I believe that many of these make believe personalities are important for childhood development. When we look at normal childhood development, we recognize that pretend and make believe is important and necessary for children to understand how ...…
WARNING: I will be ranting today! I have some major energy in the above topic. So, if you are easily offended or sensitive, please stop reading now and return for a later blog! That said, let’s chat about tolerance versus acceptance. I see the word “tolerance” everywhere…teach kids tolerance, we need to tolerate others, human ...…
Do you ever wonder what the bigger plan is for your life? That question was brewing in my soul this last week and I’ve had some clear answers set in front of me! I had the opportunity to sit with a parent today and listen to her journey of raising a child with a severe ...…
