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Healthy Children, Healthy Families
In today’s fast-paced and information-saturated culture, parents often juggle multiple responsibilities and demands on their time. One of the best gifts we can give our children is to spend quality time with them; this is more meaningful than the actual quantity of time we are able to spend together....
Managing Anxiety
Anxiety is a common experience. Mild amounts are adaptive in that anxiety is the body’s way of alerting us to possible environmental danger. Anxiety can motivate positive action such as preparing for a presentation or even avoiding spiders. It only becomes problematic when experienced in excess, such...
Parenting Advice and Support
Parenthood can bring joy and sorrow. It can make one feel proud, tired, bored, and overwhelmed - sometimes all at once. It is the most important, most wonderful, and most difficult job ever.
Understanding and Interpreting Your Child's Behavior
Young children are not always very good at telling us how they feel, but they often communicate very effectively through their behavior. Unfortunately,
Helping Children Cope with Stress
Today’s children are growing up in an increasingly complex world. They routinely encounter multiple sources of adversity and stress in their homes, schools, peer groups, communities, and the media. Despite this, however, children can be highly resilient, and there is much we can do to help them cope...
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a discipline of mind training, and it has been variously defined by many different groups over the centuries. A good contemporary definition taken from Mindfulness and Psychotherapy by members of The Insititute for Meditation and Psychotherapy is "awareness of present experience...
Spirituality in Daily Living
It is not uncommon for people to feel a lack of meaning in their lives, whether following a difficult life event, reaching middle age or just plain too
Valuing Your Value
Values determine the choices, actions and attitudes we bring to our lives. They determine what we care about and what gives our lives meaning. Research
Appreciating Diversity: Living in a Multicultural World
In a global economy, diversity is a given and cultural awareness is essential. Diversity is the mosaic of people whose varied backgrounds, styles, perspectives
Surf Your Anxiety
Our bodies have an emergency system that does a wonderful job helping us survive life- threatening situations. It works automatically and involves the
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