By: Bec Harris
If helicopter parents hover, lawnmower parents clear the path entirely.
resilience
Is it Really “As Good as a Holiday”? How to Handle Change
By: Helping Hands TV
“Change is necessary,” says psychologist, Collett Smart. “It’s what we all go through, whether it’s moving from adolescence, to middle age, to old age, to moving jobs, we’re all going to go through it.”
Are You Affected by Shame? Here’s How to Build ‘Shame Resiliency’
By: Michelle Nortje
I recently finished reading Brené Brown’s “Gifts of Imperfection” (2010) and found it to be surprisingly relevant to so many of my clients’ and friends’ narratives.
3 Simple Strategies to Supercharge Your Attitude
I don’t like to deal with absolutes… always, never, everything, nothing. After all, I’m a research scientist. For people like me, I prefer statements like “it depends”. I try to avoid being too certain.
Sleep Deprivation and Teens
By: Collett Smart
The Parenting Question this week is from Judy, on Sleep Deprivation: “How much sleep do our teens need?”
It has been said that we have a chronically sleep deprived generation.
Attitude is Everything
When my youngest daughter was around 18 months old we shared an experience that taught me a valuable lesson about how our attitude is everything.
How to Maintain Momentum by Pruning Your Practices
By: Michael McQueen
One of the most valuable lessons this year has taught us is that the life we were living pre-COVID isn’t necessarily the one we are seeking post-COVID. Though we have been longing for life to get ‘back to normal’ since the pandemic hit, there are many parts of the old normal that we would do well to leave behind.
I Asked God to Help Me Grow, It Started Raining
By: Sabrina Peters
I feel like the “raining and pruning” is a never ending process in the Christian journey. No surprise as God’s more interested in the person we’re becoming, than the places we end up.