Stacey Rippy LBA BCBA Behavioral Therapy and Training

12/11/2025

Establish routines within your family, like family dinnertime, family movie nights, family game night, family chores. These teach and strengthen relationships, build communication skills, can teach emotional regulating and self awareness. DINNER TIME CHATS is a great exercise you can do during dinner to practice all three of these skills.
Tip: We have a tendency to dismiss the lows. Not talking about the lows are missed opportunities to develop communication around "low." It may inadvertently teach avoiding or dismissing "low" feelings. It also misses an opportunity to practice how to respond when others share their "lows."

12/10/2025

This is our families 3 step plan to help us combat entitlement. To get some ideas of how to start this conversation in your family, reach out.

12/09/2025

This is a drawing of my family. This is an exercise I did with a client to practice identifying our values and being self aware of our emotions. Read the descriptions on the photos to understand the exercise. I encourage you to draw your own family, including yourself. Assign a color to an emotion, then color in your family with the emotions you've felt towards them. Then ask yourself, "Is the importance of my family, or myself, determined by my emotions?" If you say yes, you may be emotional- based living rather than values-based living.

Ask yourself, how would I look or act differently if I focused on the importance of my family rather than on my emotional state?

Please share your thoughts.

11/20/2025

Spending the morning working on CEUs. I value accountability in my profession, which motivates me to pursue best current practices. Today's topic: Relational Frame Theory. I'll be posting a lot of my notes here to remember and to help share knowledge.

11/19/2025

I see a lot of values being lived in these 20 phrases.

Kid President believes the things we say can help make the world more awesome. Here he shares a special list of 20 things we should say more often. What woul...

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

I love grabbing inspiring quotes from children's books. They stay with me. Tell me what children's book quotes inspire you?

10/29/2025

With Steven C. Hayes – I just made it onto their weekly engagement list by being one of their top engagers! 🎉