“Don’t let pain define you, let it refine you.”- Tim Fargo Nobody will understand the desire to be beaten into submission daily for years. I can’t imagine wanting to show up every day, just in hopes that this day may be different. Nobody can understand the struggles that it takes to allow your child to…
How To Create A Healthy Family System How do you create a healthy family dynamic? Healthy families have systems and practices that they utilize which directly create and sustain the family system. If you are trying to create a healthy family system, I want to share with you a few areas that can be…
Ways To Help Your Child Increase Self-Esteem Parents come together in sharing that one of their main objectives is to raise happy and healthy kids. Part of raising a happy and healthy child is connected to teaching your child how to strengthen self-esteem. Have you ever sat down with your child to talk to…
Positive Affirmations To Raise Happy Kids Affirmations help kids build healthy levels of self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-worth. If you are unfamiliar with affirmations, I want you to think about them as words that feed the soul. Affirmations are words that we use to promote healthy thoughts, feelings, and actions. For instance, when a person…
It is the Holiday Season and many middle school students will be asking for their first Smartphone and many high school students will be asking for the newest smartphones available such as the IPhone 13. In today’s society many people including teenagers view cell phones as a necessity of life. I have seen teenagers argue…
Typically during the Holidays many people expect it to be a great family time and a great deal of fun for the kids. However, this year the Holidays are going to be different for families due to the Coronavirus. There may be issues over if someone is vaccinated or not and a debate about if…
Schools are starting to reopen during a pandemic. Many schools are still arguing about if teachers and students over 12 years old must be vaccinated in addition to arguing if students and teachers must wear masks while at school. While these debates are occurring students are adjusting to be back at school and many students…
More and more people seem to be burdened with some sort of mental illness or condition. The medical industry, where much of the psychotherapy is conducted, seems hooked on palliative ‘solutions’ such as medication and curtailed programs of manualized ‘sausage-machine’-style psychotherapy which assume that every patient is the average patient. There’s no time to actually…
‘There is no domain of life free from the influence of ADHD that we have yet identified’. Russell Barkley. (Barkley, 2009) Introduction Ludwig Wittgenstein is said to have written in a letter to his sister that it is impossible to see the wind that someone is walking into. All you see is the person struggling. …
A person-centred approach to psychotherapy or counselling can be of tremendous benefit to ADHD adults. Firstly it is important to note that ADHD feels ‘normal’ because it is just the way you are. It is not an injury or an illness, with a sense of separateness to it. It is a heritable disability, not really…