Mental Health Monday: Parenting a Neurodiverse Child
What is Neurodiversity? Between 15-20 % of the population have brains that developmental psychologists would identify as neurodiverse. A neurodiverse (or neurodivergent, as it's sometimes called) brain is one that develops, works, learns or processes differently than...
Mental Health Monday: When Your Kids Don’t Live as You Would Like
By Julie Homrich, LPC and Mandi Allison, LCMHC Anyone who has children or works with children has expectations for how they "should" behave. Before becoming a parent, you may have seen kids whining in the grocery store and thought, “I’d NEVER allow my child...
Mental Health Monday: Crisis, Compassion and a Way Forward
When Bad Things Happen Crisis is an unavoidable fact of life. Whether it happens to us, through us or around us, we all encounter crisis at some point in time. Our nervous system's natural response to a threat is to fight, flight, freeze or appease (people-pleasing...
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