Crazy hair day. For the record, hair chalk is a huge pain in the tushy. This weekend was a shitshow, y’all. Saturday morning found me dropping off one kid (not my own) who had spent the night at our house and then picking up my daughter, who had spent the
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Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger March 6, 2018
Challenges provide growth opportunities—if we’re willing to see them as such and to face them. This is especially true for therapy. Yet we tend to assume that in order to be helpful, therapy must be a smooth process, without any hiccups or bumps. But it’s these very bumps, when handled
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Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger February 28, 2018
Your daughter is terrified of making mistakes. She sees failure as the ultimate catastrophe. She avoids completing assignments and trying new things. She fears being embarrassed. She gives up easily. She spends extra time on homework and regularly rewrites her assignments. She doesn’t raise her hand in class because she’s
Read More Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger February 25, 2018
Your partner didn’t wash the dishes, or take out the trash or fold the laundry. Maybe they forgot to pay a bill. Maybe they’re running late to your lunch date. Maybe they haven’t hung up the picture frames they promised to hang up (too many) weeks ago. Maybe they leave
Read More Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger February 22, 2018
You’re a mom who has ADHD, and you’re in the thick of mothering. Maybe you’re in the thick of toddlerhood, besieged by big tantrums and bleary-eyed after one-too-many sleepless nights. Maybe you’re in the thick of adolescence, trying to traverse schedules and emotional roller coasters. Maybe you have several kids,
Read More Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger February 19, 2018
Imagine you are in a white room. Use five adjectives to describe the experience. Write those adjectives down. Don’t censor yourself. Don’t erase, scribble out or delete. Jot down the first five words that come to mind. This is the last part of a personality test that Rachael Morgan, an
Read More Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger February 2, 2018
On the outside, you are put together. Always. You are well-dressed, and nothing is ever out of place. You show up on time. Always. You rarely seem rattled—or down or anxious. You rarely seem like you feel anything at all. People would describe you as easygoing, laid-back and flexible. And
Read More Shared by Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S., Contributing Blogger February 1, 2018
The cat is still extremely skeptical. The first time I heard about mindfulness and meditation, I thought it was BS. I thought it was for people who didn’t have their sh*t together. I was super type-A and I didn’t need that hippie baloney. And then I had kids. And everything changed.
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 25, 2018
My daughters have abandoned their meditation cushions, so the kitty moved in. In my last post, I wrote about why I started teaching my kids to meditate. In this post, I’ll share how I taught them, and what I did when they lost interest. I want to start out by
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 22, 2018
Teaching my girls to meditate wasn’t one of my resolutions for the new year. I’ve got a ton of tricks up my sleeve for practicing mindfulness with them; so many, in fact, that I wrote a book about it. But formal seated meditation can be hard for little ones, especially
Read More Shared by Carla Naumburg, Ph.D, Contributing Blogger January 2, 2018