Do you or a loved one experience explosive anger? If so, you are not alone. The stories and evidence based tools in this article may help! Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. —Benjamin Franklin (This is a free excerpt from my book, The Snowball Effect: How to Build … [Read more...]
Below Your Child’s Anger
Chronic anger is only the tip of the iceberg. To really help a child, we must be willing to go deep. Anger is a secondary emotion disguising something more difficult to express. Often unexpressed and unresolved grief has a way of reappearing in the form of chronic anger and … [Read more...]
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Are You Good Enough?
Donald Winnicott (1896-1971), an English pediatrician, researcher, and psychoanalyst, teaches- You don't have to be the perfect parent, but if you are good enough, your child will grow up feeling good enough. In a Psychology Today article published on July 15, 2014, Susan … [Read more...]
Exercising the Mind to Treat Attention Deficits Through Mindfulness
Exercising the Mind With Mindfulness: A Great Piece to the Mental Health Puzzle In a New York Times article published on May 12, 2014, Daniel Goleman writes, "Poor planning, wandering attention and trouble inhibiting impulses all signify lapses in cognitive control. Now a … [Read more...]