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When Trauma Touches Your Child: How to Care, Comfort, and Support
As a parent, you want to protect your child from everything. But the sad and unfortunate truth? They will likely be exposed to far more than you could ever want them to be.
Trauma can touch your child through an array of situations – death, natural disasters, a car accident, illness or anything else that is a threat to their emotional and physical safety and well-being.
7 Tips for Co-Parenting Well When All is Not Well in Your Relationship
By Elizabeth McMahan
Going through a rough patch in a relationship is never easy, but once you have kids it becomes even more difficult. Children are like sponges who absorb everything you say and do.
Just because your relationship is suffering, it doesn’t mean your children need to suffer along with it. Using these seven tips can help you to co-parent well when all is not well in your relationship.
Chaotic Childhood? Strategies to Help You Heal the Pain and Betrayal
By Elizabeth McMahan
Children need consistency and stability to thrive, so growing up in a chaotic environment can have some negative effects. Growing up in an environment where abuse, neglect, substance abuse disorders and addiction, or untreated mental illnesses are present, are just a few things that can cause a chaotic childhood.
Soft Startup: What It Is and How It Can Help Me Talk To My Partner
By Elizabeth McMahan
What’s your typical view on conflict? Most of us either run away in avoidance or approach it head-on with fighting words.
But did you know it’s actually very healthy to engage in conflict? At least, it is when you know the best way to approach it.
A soft startup can help you view conflict as a productive way to meet your needs, rather than the beginning of a dreadful argument.
What is Resiliency and Why Does it Matter?
By Elizabeth McMahan
We’ve all heard about ‘resiliency’, or the ability to quickly bounce back from a challenging situation. But how does resiliency work in the psychological sense?
Psychological Resilience is defined as “an individual’s ability to successfully adapt to life tasks in the face of social disadvantage or highly adverse conditions”; also “the psychological strength to cope with stress and hardship.”
Infidelity and Broken Trust: 5 Reasons Why Couples Counseling is Your Best Option
Few things can disrupt your relationship like infidelity.
While infidelity doesn’t have to end your relationship, it is a major cry for help.
Couples counseling can help salvage your relationship after a betrayal like infidelity.
Live What You Learn After Your Session: How to Push the Reset Button
By Elizabeth McMahan
Therapy usually leaves you feeling great, right? You learn new skills and tactics, you get to focus on yourself, and you figure some things that you may not have been able to on your own. The only downside is you can’t keep your therapist in your pocket at all times…so you have to find ways to live what you learn when your session is over.
Why Self-Care for Parents Must Be a To-Do List Priority
By Elizabeth McMahan
You have a planner, an iPhone scheduler, and a traditional calendar on the wall.
You’re ridiculously busy. You’re driving. You’re planning You’re volunteering.
You’re filling the fridge. You’re shopping. You’re fretting, soothing, disciplining, cheering them on and checking their social media for all the things you might be missing.
Relationship Repair or Call It Quits? Why Counseling Helps Either Way
By Elizabeth McMahan
For the most part, people think of couple counseling and marriage counseling as a means to save their relationship when they have come to the end of their rope.
Either both partners realize they need to make the effort and commit to counseling; or, it’s one spouse’s desperate, last-ditch attempt to convince the other to hold it together.
Communicate Better With Your Teen ... Beyond Huh? What? I Don't Know
Having to deal with an unresponsive teen can certainly test every bit of your parenting skills and patience.
So, how can you communicate better with your teen, especially during this time of their life when open and frank discussions are needed more than ever?
Body Awareness: Why It's Important to Trust What Your Body is Telling You
By Elizabeth McMahan
Intuition is a gift we were all given at infanthood. Intuition is how we connect with our inner selves through our bodies. It links closely with body awareness, also known as somatic awareness or “learning to feel your body.”
So, why is it that important to trust what your body is telling you?
Grief and Loss: Why It's Okay to Process the Pain Your Own Way
It’s a common misconception that there is one, fixed way to deal with grief and loss. This is because we see mourning as a problem that needs to be fixed when this really isn’t the case.
As uncomfortable as it is to deal with emotional pain, it’s something that we as humans all experience. It’s natural to search for a resolution that will stop our pain.