From the Parent Camp Newsletter 6-12-24 We all struggle from time to time with something. My 23-year-old son called me Monday in the middle of the worst panic attack he’s had in years. It took a couple of hours for him to calm down. His anxiety has been largely under control since he was around …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 5-29-24 Something I don’t feel I’ve talked enough about is “rupture and repair”. Rupture in the relationship with our kids happens when we want one thing, and they want another – a situation where our parental authority clashes with their need for autonomy. A more toxic type of rupture occurs when …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 5-22-24 I’m working with a nutritional therapy practitioner (Shout out to Jennifer in Parent Camp!) and I had to fill out a million-page questionnaire for her this week (well, almost a million). When I got to the question, “Do you meditate daily?” I was so excited that I could answer “Yes, I …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 5-15-24 I’m currently working on revamping Section 2 and just yesterday worked on a new lesson about confirmation bias that I’d like to share a little of today. Section 2, if you recall, is all about your thoughts, emotions, and behavior. And cognitive biases and distortions, that happen without us even realizing …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 5-1-24 When my son was little, I kept a daily journal and chronicled everything that happened every single day. But I did strategically omit one rather traumatic event; the time when he was just over a year old and I accidentally gave him a double dose of Syrup of Ipecac. I thought he’d …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 4-17-24 Although the years we spend actively parenting our kids under our roof, is but a blip on the screen of our existence, it’s certainly the most emotional, the most challenging, and likely the most rewarding (once you’re able to look back!) But it is so very easy to lose ourselves …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 4-3-24 The way you react when your teen shares something serious with you, can mean the difference in whether or not they ever share anything with you again. Yes, it’s that big of a deal. If they don’t feel they can trust you not to freak out, go ballistic, give them …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 3-27-24 A mindset is subjective. It’s how we interpret or perceive what’s going on in the objective world. Everything is how our brain interprets it to be. The thing is, most of us don’t even realize we have mindsets about things. We think the way we view the world simply the …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 3-13-24 Most of us go through our daily lives, doing what we do, thinking what we think and feeling what we feel, out of pure habit and forward momentum. Who has time to stop and observe, right? The problem with the way most of us speed through life is that we …
From Parent Camp Newsletter 3-6-24 Does your teen spout curse words, use a derogatory tone, or say things you consider disrespectful when they’re in the middle of experiencing gigantic emotions? I’m not talking about “common everyday disrespect,” that isn’t happening during a meltdown – that’s a different topic (and one I covered in episode 117.) …
