by Valerie | Jun 25, 2024 | Childhood Trauma
Helping Children Heal After Trauma Trauma comes in many forms and no matter how hard most adults try, we can’t always protect our child from trauma. Natural disasters, bullying at school, a serious illness, or witnessing violence in the community or a previous home...
by Valerie | Jun 11, 2024 | Parent Resources, School Resources
And Why Discipline is All About Healthy Emotional Regulation and Brain Development It may not be under a teacher’s job description but they influence the emotional development of the students they teach in their classroom. Teachers not only specialize in a particular...
by Valerie | May 28, 2024 | Childhood Trauma
Plus, the Signs of and How to Heal from Childhood Trauma The journey of healing from childhood trauma is long, challenging, and emotional. But moving forward is possible. Those who have suffered from childhood trauma all have a different story, and their healing...
by Valerie | May 14, 2024 | Parent Resources
How Therapists and Counselors can Support their Well-being While Helping Others Counselors and therapists have all arrived in the field in their own way. Some were drawn to help others because they had an adult in their own life who supported them when they needed it....
by Valerie | Apr 30, 2024 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources
Plan Ahead for These Holidays that Can Trigger Trauma Responses We often don’t give a second thought to celebrations of Mother’s and Father’s Day. Bouquets of flowers and brunch for mom or a nice tie and a barbeque with dad are commonplace. It’s also common for...
by Valerie | Apr 9, 2024 | Childhood Trauma
How to Help Your Child Work Through Repressed Trauma and Heal Trauma can stick with us if we don’t work through it. Often, traumatic experiences in our childhood can be so overwhelming and threatening that many children (and even adults) repress those memories and...
by Valerie | Mar 26, 2024 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources, School Resources
Motivating the Seemingly Unmotivated Student Teachers deal with students of all kinds, from high academic performers to students who struggle. You may have students who behave well and participate readily and those who seem like they are constantly disrupting class....
by Valerie | Mar 12, 2024 | Parent Resources, School Resources
6 Tips for Becoming a Better Advocate for Your Child While a school’s purpose is to help educate your child, it’s important to remember that a single school is dealing with hundreds of students each day. That is why it is so important for parents to be their child’s...
by Valerie | Feb 3, 2024 | Parent Resources, School Resources
The Emotional Effects of Adverse Childhood Events Traumatic and stressful experiences, in essence, leave behind a scar in our mind. When something scary or traumatic happens to us, it’s hard to forget how it made us feel. Today we are going to look at prolonged trauma...
by Valerie | Feb 3, 2024 | Parent Resources
The Science Behind the Teenage Mind Often when adults talk about today’s teenagers, you hear complaints that today’s teens are worse than when they were young. But practically every generation has said that about younger generations. Even Socrates bemoaned about the...
