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According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, an estimated 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. experienced mental illness in 2019 (pre-pandemic!) and approximately 48 million adults in the U.S. are [...]

I recently spent an unforgettable week working as a clinician at a grief camp for kids. While I'm sure I helped the campers learn and grow in many ways, they taught and inspired me a great deal, [...]

Do you sometimes find it difficult to let yourself feel good? Often when we think about the emotions we don't want to feel, we think of the negative ones. But I've noticed a number of my clients [...]

Many moms are either too embarrassed or too ashamed to admit that they feel trapped in motherhood because they think it means there's something wrong with them. They don't realize that thinking [...]

The act of validating your child's emotions can be a powerful parenting tool. Since every action begins with a thought, this episode explores different thoughts that can lead to validating and [...]

Do you worry yourself sick imagining the worst thing that can happen to you or your kids? Tune in to hear me talk about the worst that can happen (it's not what you think it is) and how best to [...]

Conflict is a normal part of being a human. And sometimes the conversations we have about our conflicts can evoke strong emotions. Learning how to navigate those conversations in an effective way [...]

We've all been conditioned to believe that we should feel happy most of the time. So when we or our kids are unhappy, we think something's gone terribly wrong. But what if that's not true? Tune [...]

Even though the number of Coronavirus cases keeps rising, many states have started to re-open and lift their lockdown restrictions. As moms, we have a lot of decisions to make in the coming [...]

Did you know that you're supposed to experience negative emotions? Most likely, you were raised to believe that negative emotions are to be avoided at all costs. Join me for this episode as I [...]