“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…
Ways To Manage Stress And How Counseling Can Help How do you deal with stress? What does stress do to your mind? What does stress do to your body? Are you aware of the warning signs of stress? Stress impacts each person a little bit differently than others. In some ways, we cannot…
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…
How Counseling Can Help Your Child With Depression Working with a child counselor can give your child tools to address common depression symptoms, develop healthy coping skills, and learn how to become their own advocate. Common Signs Of Depression In Kids: Low energy. A decline in academic performance. Not wanting to socialize. Negative…
5 Ways To Manage Depression 1. Create values. One creative way to manage depression symptoms is by creating values that you want to instill in your life. After creating the value, take time each day to focus on actions that connect to the value. This practice over time improves self-esteem and self-confidence which directly…
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…
Every child is not going to get straight As and that is okay. We live in a very competitive society and parents and students often brag about their grades or where they are going to college. Some teenagers are academically inclined and others are physically inclined. Therefore, instead of being a surgeon may be they…
Halloween signals the beginning of the Holiday season. Many people will be worrying about how they will survive the Holidays with certain relatives and since prices have increased this year many people are worrying about how they will be able to afford the Holiday Season. Additionally, there is the Coronavirus pandemic. Many people have been…
Most middle school and high school students have grown up with smart phones and computers for gaming and texting their friends. The fact that they have grown up with technology being part of their daily lives is an important fact we need to remember. However, there are also parents concerns about how much time their…