With summer starting up, I thought it might be helpful to talk a bit about how to have a wonderful summer with your kids, easily! There is so much pressure on parents to cultivate amazing experiences for their…
The most basic building block of therapy is communication- our ability to talk with each other. So what does that mean for our kids? Children haven’t naturally developed the language to tell us what they have…
Thank you so much for checking out my third blog in this series! As I mentioned before, this blog series is definitely more personal for…
Thank you so much for checking out my second blog in this series! As I mentioned before, this blog series is definitely more …
What a lot of people who are close to me know is that I am currently pregnant and excitedly, nervously expecting our first child.
We can’t discuss how to motivate teens without looking a bit more at what motivation actually is. In our culture, we often think of motivation as something that is a static, ongoing state. People are often described as being motivated, or not…
Hopefully many of you were able to check out last weeks’ post, which is the Part 1 of this series on Teens and Motivation. Today, I am going to focus on the building blocks of motivation that I briefly mentioned last…
What I hear most often from parents of the teens with whom I work is complaints about why their teen is not motivated to do the things that they want them to do. Why are they spending all their time on YouTube instead of homework? Why are their social relationships so much more important to…
Parents who call Thrive are often feeling desperately in need of support for their family, their child or teen, and often themselves. While the issues they are…
One of the most common challenges parents talk with me about is not necessarily recognizing that their child or teen might benefit from therapy, but how to talk with the child or teen about attending…
