Active listening is apparently NOT defined as listening to someone while actively doing something else. Although, that’s likely the only form of active listening I’d ever participated in, until this week. According to a course I’m taking, in order to practice this method of listening, one must listen intently, without judgment, and refrain from interrupting …
It wasn’t until I began diving deep into my past that I came to realize exactly what happened in my childhood home regarding discipline and the expression of emotions. One theme that I noticed was isolation. Whenever I did something that was punishable, I would be sent away to my room to await a spanking. …
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. -Hellen Keller Emotions can be the most beautiful things— beneath the surface, working for us. Sometimes, though, doesn’t it seem emotions are working against us? When we do not understand how to work …
Play is important to children. It is quite literally a child’s job to play, and here is why. Children use play to express feelings, make sense of their surroundings, connect with their loved ones, release difficult emotions, and process situations that occur. In fact, one piece of advice I often offer to clients with young …
It had happened again like it does every week or two. The kids’ room had become a complete disaster area! Their toys, which I have neatly categorized, have been scattered across every surface, the main one being the floor. Clean clothes from their drawers scattered, dirty laundry left there in the mix. Costumes from their …
So I woke up this morning with the intention of making Monday a FUN DAY in our home. I didn’t have any plans as to how I would make that happen, but I knew that FUN would be on my parenting priority list! Today, fellow parenting coach, Ashley Newberg and I kicked off a Bring Fun Back to …
Neurotransmitters are chemicals that carry messages between neurons, which are nerve cells. These messages tell us to relax or move a muscle, and they also tell us things regarding pleasure and rewards. The pleasure and rewards system in our brains rewards us with a pleasurable feeling when we do something that will maintain our survival, …
Have you ever remembered a situation, conversation, or encounter one way, but someone else who experienced it with you remembers it happening a different way? The human brain, its capacity for memory, and what it believes it saw, tasted, smelled, or heard, is not always the most accurate. In fact, eyewitness testimonies are not completely …
From the time we are born, our subconscious minds are being programmed. In fact, it’s believed that everything we perceive from birth to five or six years old is programmed directly to the subconscious mind (Montessori, 2014). Why is that? Because as newborns, we cannot pick up a textbook or sign up for online courses. …
The body stores energy from food in three different ways: glucose, amino acids, and lipids. Lipids are fats, and these happen to be the number one method that the body uses to store its energy from food. The body has a three-step process of metabolizing food. According to the authors, these include the cephalic, absorptive, …
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