Why Investing In Your Mental Health Therapy at an Early Age Matters
WHY is so much of who we are and how we function as adults based in childhood? Take a look at this graph from Harvard. It basically shows that, although our brains are constantly changing and malleable across the span of our lives, our brains as children are MUCH more malleable than as an elder (red line). EVERYTHING we experience as a child gets encoded into our brains, soaked up like a sponge. And it stays there. Unless we make effort to change it. The graph also shows tha
Raising a Child With a Disability or Neurodivergence? Welcome to Holland.
I adore the following analogy... it works for many populations, including the shining gems that are our neurodivergent children. A child with neurodivergence may have a diagnosis of ADHD, ASD, high IQ, low IQ, or a nerodevelopmental condition. Welcome To Holland by Emily Perl Kingsley Copyright©1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of the author. I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to
A Date With Inner Child: How Authenticity Therapy is Shaping My Life
After coming back from our training for Authenticity Therapy (AT) in Costa Rica this January, I got to learn first-hand how tending and talking to my inner child (IC) kept me grounded and helped everything else going on in my life fall into place. I began using this powerful technique with some of my long-term clients, and lo-and-behold! They became ready to discharge! They began to trust that they could navigate life without my support because they carried their own deep
