Parenting

Is It Okay to Cry in Front of Your Kids?

Here's a link to a lovely article in Good Housekeeping Magazine. I was honored to be asked to contribute! https://www.goodhousekeeping.co...

Feeling Stressed about the Holidays?

One helpful way to look at stress is to think of it as a buildup in your body of the chemicals your brain puts out every time you have to...

You Should Be...Guilty! How to Break the Cycle of Shame

I see the destructive cycle of shame almost every day as a child therapist. Example: One of my young clients was traumatized by a...

Helping Children to Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

So, I went zip-lining in the redwoods recently. Imagine me with hands on hips, like a cowboy in chaps, cooling surveying the toe of my...

On Love and Screens and Whether They Can Coexist

I visited my doctor recently, and she shared with me her frustration about the new regulations requiring doctors to keep electronic...

Playing With Death

We don’t have a good way of explaining death to children in our culture anymore. We don’t talk about death. We try to pretend that it...