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THE BLOG We Ask Our Kids The Same 3 Questions Every Night 08/24/2016 01:03 pm ET | Updated 5 days ago 3.5k Meg Conley megconley.com, speaker, bacon eater For the first time both of my daughters are in school, each in different grades and different schools. It's been interesting to see our family of…

08/27/2016

Depression

One more time for the folks in the back: Depression is a serious disease.

08/15/2016

Asking the right questions in a safe environment.

How do good parents miss child sexual abuse?  It is simple.

07/12/2016

How to hold space for someone

06/29/2016

Studies suggest that by age 17, over one-third of children in the United States will have been exposed to domestic violence. Here are 16 ways adults can support these children to heal and grow.

06/28/2016

Teenage depression

By Angela Avery, MA, LLPC, NCC

06/18/2016

Historical and intergenerational trauma

by Mark Wolynn Traumas Lost and Found The past is never dead. It’s not even past. — William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun A well-documented feature of trauma, one familiar to many, is our inability to...

06/02/2016

Your beliefs can cause you to view the world through colored glasses without even realizing that you’re wearing them. http://bit.ly/1QQqxbw

05/13/2016

This is amazing. Inspiring. Find what works for you.

05/12/2016

Feeling through the trauma. Amazing.

“In the culture people talk about trauma as an event that happened a long time ago. But what trauma is, is the imprints that event has left on your mind and in your sensations... the discomfort you feel and the agitation you feel and the rage and the helplessness you feel right now.” Psychiatrist Be...

04/05/2016

Many parents are reluctant to enter their children into therapy due to social stigma

03/17/2016

Simplifying Childhood

When I read Kim John Payne's book, Simplicity Parenting one message leapt off the page. Normal personality quirks combined with the stress of "too much" can propel children into the realm of disorder. A child who is systematic may be pushed into obsessive behaviours. A dreamy child may lose the abil…

03/15/2016

Beautiful ❤️

Wherever 6-year-old Iris Grace Halmshaw goes, 2-year-old Thula is sure to follow.

03/10/2016

It happens to every child in one form or another – anxiety. As parents, we would like to shield our children from life’s anxious moments, but navigating anxiety is an essential life skill that will serve them in the years to come. In the...

03/09/2016

It's not all in "the brain;" childhood adverse events, among other experiences, contribute to mental health challenges throughout the lifespan.

Divorcing mental ill health from its social and political context, as the BBC’s recent In the Mind Series did, implies wider issues of inequality or poverty don’t matter

03/08/2016

Brene Brown on empathy, compassion and boundaries

03/08/2016

Teach girls bravery, not perfection

We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program -- two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot…

03/05/2016

So true

Can't argue with science: A person isn't responsible for having a mental illness.

02/27/2016

02/26/2016

YES!

Sadly, too often, the stigma around mental health prevents people who need help from seeking it. But that simply doesn't make any sense. Whether an illness affects your heart, your arm or your brain, it's still an illness, and there shouldn't be any distinction.

02/18/2016

"The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, the opposite of addiction is connection." A very interesting short video about how we should start to look at addiction differently.

BY SOFO ARCHON Most people think that the reason why people become addicted to drugs is solely because of the drugs themselves. This, however, is far from the truth, as shown repeatedly by scientific studies on drug addiction. The brilliant short animated video below will explain to you why drugs do…

02/10/2016

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are the single most unaddressed public health concern in the United States.
"What happens to the childhood brain when the bear comes home every night".

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This unfolds across…