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By Harriet Cabelly, LCSW https://rebuildlifenow.com Dark times are inherent in our lives. They don’t skip over the good guys or the lucky...
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How Becoming a Sober Mom Revitalized My Life: Four Steps to Creative Recovery
By Dana Bowman http://danabowmancreative.com I was scrolling through social media the other day, and I landed on a meme that exclaimed:...
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3 Ways to Cultivate Presence Right Now
By Whitney Freya https://WhitneyFreya.com Becoming present is all about cultivating awareness and becoming your own witness. The more...
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5 Common Myths About Grief
By Gary Roe I was four years old. I had just experienced bullying for the first time. I was shocked, confused, sad, and angry. I was...
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Parenting a Tween
The transition to middle school can feel like quite a gut check for parents...
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Getting Teens to Open Up
Say What? Three Tips to Help Parents to Make Communication with Teens Easier By Jerry Weichman, PhD Parent: “How was your day?” Teen:...
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Be the Anti-Bully: There is No Such Thing as an Innocent Bystander
In case you haven’t heard, bullying is a hot topic this school year...
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Yet Another Lesson in Parenting
My son and I are in the Goleta gas station an hour and a half into our drive to San Francisco to look at colleges...
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Taking the Long View
Recently our extended family, which included several of my grand children, took a trip together...
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Dumbed Down Parenting
Lots of parents tell me they rely on screen activities such as GameBoys, DVD players, and computers to entertain their kids when...
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The Importance of Play
In a report issued by The Alliance for Childhood it was revealed that kindergarteners’ play time has greatly diminished...
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The Problem with Praise
New studies show the praise these parents are giving may be doing more harm then good. We want so much to encourage our children...
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Raising Kids Who Believe in Themselves
These are troubling times to raise good kids. And we don’t need researchers to share fancy statistics to prove it to us; we all know it...
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3 Secrets to Increasing Joy for Your Loved Ones at End-of-Life
You don’t often see joy used in the same sentence as death....when my husband Bruce was diagnosed with an aggressive stage 4 cancer...
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Connection and Belonging are Essential: Three Ways to Support Friendship
Strangers are only friends I haven’t met yet. We walk through life differently, not better or worse than one another, just different...
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6 Inspiring Ways to Help Your Children Grieve
Whether through the loss of a family member, pet or friend, a child's first exposure to grief is often accompanied by a period of moodiness.
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Encourage Your Children to Try New Endeavors
Are you a parent who encourages your child to try new things such as learning how to play the piano, the guitar, Taekwondo, hockey...
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Embrace the New Parent Gap Challenges
By Jane Honikman
Many years ago, I was pregnant, single and alone. I gave birth in a foreign country, and never saw my baby...
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When Divorce is Unavoidable
No one goes through divorce school when they’re getting married...
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How We Heal Our Children’s Broken Hearts
Over a period of eight weeks, our son went from a sweet boy who liked to give hugs and kisses to one who yelled at us in anguish, hit us...
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