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Teen Anxiety Relief That Works: How One Journal Helped My Pre-Teen Cope with Big Feelings
The Day That Felt Too Much: From the Teen Anxiety Workbook. Have you had one of those days yet? The kind where your pre-teen climbs into the car after school, quiet, eyes watery—or worse, bursts into tears and won’t tell you why? I remember the first time it happened with my daughter. She had just started middle school. A new schedule, harder homework, a bigger building with kids who suddenly cared a lot about clothes and followers on social media. It was overwhelming—and I could see her shutting down. I did what so many of us do. I said, “It’s going to be okay.”I tried, “Everyone feels this way sometimes.”I…
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Big Feelings, Little Kids: An Anger Management Guide Through Storytelling and Support
If you’ve ever found yourself face-to-face with your child’s outburst—yelling, stomping, throwing, or shutting down—and wondered quietly, “What am I doing wrong?”, you’re not alone. These intense moments, filled with big emotions and even bigger reactions, can leave any parent feeling overwhelmed, discouraged, or guilty. But the truth is, having a child who struggles with anger doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong. It means you’re raising a little human still learning how to handle life’s big feelings.
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That’s NOT Me!
To many good and great things in life, I tend to say, “That’s not me!” I don’t go to manicure salons. That’s not me. I don’t have girls nights out. That’s not me. I don’t wear red lipstick. I don’t go to school social gatherings. No Dr. Seuss-themed posters in my classroom. No yoga studios. No housewives of Beverly Hills. That’s not me! “That’s not me!” has become quite convenient to eliminate things I have to participate in, places to go to, people to meet. I’ve been living 30 min from New York for more than ten years, and I’ve never been to a Broadway show. While many times it…
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Are You a Hulk Mom?
I’ve never thought mindfulness buzz will become part of my purposeful existence. Let me tell you: yoga, meditation, all these talks about feelings, acknowledging what we experience, and how we process this world – it all seemed to be done by fragile people from another planet, but not me. I’m a woman with a full-time job as a teacher, two kids, a house full of problems, and I have nooo time for this cr&p. I was convinced I can move forward and crash all the hurdles like a thousand-ton Russian ice breaker. I was on the expedition to my ideal life, could afford no days off. I was killing it.…
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How to fight impostor syndrome.
In this post, I am going to share four tips about how to fight impostor syndrome. Most commonly impostor syndrome is defined as a psychosomatic (syn.: psychological, stress-related, irrational) pattern in which people doubt their accomplishments and have persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” I hope these tips will help you learn something more about you and the journey you might have ahead of you. In my second year in a public school system in the US, I understood one critical thing: all the teachers, whether you are a beginner or a spiced, experienced one, – all of us can relate in one way or another.…
