Have you heard the term leveling up? If you’ve ever played a video game, especially back in the seventies and eighties, you understand the significance of moving up to the next level. I don’t know how many hours of my childhood were spent trying to get to the next level of Space Invaders and Donkey […]
Mental Health
Going Outside In Winter Won’t Kill Your Kids. But Staying Inside Might.
We live in a time when kids are more overweight than ever, more disconnected than ever, more immobile than ever, and more depressed than ever. This problem isn’t coming from the public schools. It’s not the teachers’ fault, it’s not the school administration’s fault, and it’s not the board of ed’s fault. It’s not the […]
Keep, Stop, Start
Every Sunday is self-reflection day for me. And I’ve also started implementing this practice with all my NYAFC clients. But in order to really think about how the past week has been going for all of us, I have started employing the Keep, Start, Stop approach to this practice. It’s also called the Stop, Keep, […]
“I Do Feel You Have A Good Shot.”
If you’ve been around here for a while you know I had a little brother who died when he was three years old. I was sixteen at the time, and a junior in high school. My brother’s name was Christopher, and he was diagnosed with leukemia at about eighteen months old, had chemo and radiation […]
Do You Have Good Sleep Hygiene?
The first time I heard the term “sleep hygiene” was about 20 years ago. I was sitting in a therapist’s office after having been released from Silver Hill, a psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut where I had been for a week. I had just been diagnosed with major depressive disorder — major depression — […]
What Are You Really Depriving Yourself Of?
In my experience, we are at the point where many people completely fall off the wagon as far as resolutions are concerned. I’m not a fan of resolutions — because they rarely result in true change — but I am a fan of evolution. I believe in always trying to be a better mother, a […]