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Emotional Health

Making Your Home an Emotionally Safe Place

By Dr. Kristi Wolfe You’ve plugged the outlets, gotten rid of the poisonous cleaning products, and locked up the alcohol and medications.  You try to do everything you can to keep your child healthy and out of harm’s way. But

FYI_Admin July 17, 2017 Article Archives, Mental Health, Parenting, Youth Read more

How to give your child a rich life–without raising entitled kids

“Our offspring have simply leveraged our good intentions and over-investment…They inhabit a broad savannah of entitlement that we’ve watered, landscaped, and hired gardeners to maintain.” -Sally Koslow “I think I want my daughter to have some sense of entitlement… We

FYI_Admin December 28, 2016 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

Parental Involvement and Children’s Well-being

Youths who experience higher levels of parental involvement and a closer relationship with their parents are less likely to exhibit behavioral problems and to engage in risk behaviors. In addition, they tend to achieve better grades and higher levels of

FYI_Admin April 24, 2016 Article Archives, Parenting Read more

Are You a Workaholic? If So, This May Be Why

If you are a workaholic, sportsaholic, alcoholic or excessively doing any too much of any activity in your life, you may be doing so because you excell in the skill made famous by the phenomenal magician Houdini.  You may be

FYI_Admin April 24, 2016 Article Archives, Marriage, Mental Health Read more

In the Meantime: 10 step guide to embracing singlehood

Just emerging from sujood, I whispered the last remnants of my constant dua of “Oh Allah, you hold the key to the heavens and the Earth. Please bless me with those things that are best for me and remove those

FYI_Admin April 24, 2016 Article Archives, Marriage, Mental Health Read more

Enjoy the more simple things in life (comic)

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20 Signs of Unresolved Trauma

Many people enter the therapy process with minimal awareness of their trauma history.  When the trauma survivors are dissociative, they have the ability to block out an awareness of their trauma.  They may know that their family had problems, or

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How the Attachment Bond Shapes Adult Relationships

Have you ever been in love? We all have, at least once. The attachment bond is the term for your first interactive love relationship—the one you had with your primary caregiver as an infant, usually your mother. This mother-child attachment

FYI_Admin April 24, 2016 Article Archives, Marriage Read more

Skills and Attributes of Today’s Learner

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The Best Depression iPhone & Android Apps

Getting On-the-Go Help for Depression Depression can cause both physical and emotional effects. It can lead to feelings of sadness and cause you to withdraw from things you enjoy. If you’re dealing with depression, you’re certainly not alone. The Centers

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