Get Your Kids To Sleep and Get Back Your Bed
Is your child getting enough sleep? Just as a child needs to be taught to eat, read, or dress themselves – they also need to be taught to sleep. “It’s during sleep that everything that they saw, felt, heard, touched throughout the day gets those connections to get made. So, it’s super important to ensure […]
Couples & Covid-19 – what helps?
How is Corona virus affecting couples and families? And how can couples stay strong? Those questions were recently posed to Dr. Matt Morris How is covid-19 affecting couples and families? “We’re not exactly sure, but we’re certain that the Covid-19 quarantine is affecting couples and families in unique ways.” Couples are spending hours, days, and […]
Self-Care & Coronavirus
50 Self-Care ideas for the Sequestered… Not a title I ever thought before about writing, but here we are. Caring for yourself is essential to living well through stress and caring well for others. Here’s a few of our favorite ideas: Start your morning with silence and solitude. Take some deep breaths, remember we’ll get […]
SmartPhones & Teen Girls
The Love/Hate Relationship between Smartphones and Teen-Girls By: Giselle Armantrout Picture this – your teen girl receives a normal-looking friend request on Instagram from someone who shares her interest in music. She accepts, and the two new “friends” begin chatting. The problem is that the “friend” is simply one of many imposter profiles of a […]
We are Moving!
Back to the Eastbank Our practice is growing and expanding, so much so that we need a new office. So as of July 1 we will be at our new home on Metairie Road. The practice was started in 2007 and was located in Mid-City. We’ve spent most of the last decade in Gretna, though […]
Benefits of Pain
Embracing Loss and Grief (to receive the benefits of pain) There are 300 million prescriptions per year worldwide for pain-killers. 220 million of those are prescribed in the US. That’s right, we have 5% of the World’s population, but we take about 75% of the worldwide supply of pain meds. We hate pain. And […]
Stuff I Love!
Family Therapy Resources My students will tell you that I’m a fan of information. I love real stories from real people about the struggles and victories experienced in life. Below is a list of content that has enhanced me as a person and as a professional counselor. Enjoy! Podcasts: *Each links to a good episode […]
Talking to your Kids about Violence
Violence Bombs bursting in Boston. Twenty-six dead at Sandy Hook Elementary, including twenty children. Almost nightly shootings in the rough streets of New Orleans. School shootings, local murders, suicide, war – our “civilization” is often marred by violence, and our children often want to know the details. And as a parent it’s often difficult to […]
Talking to your kids about…
Race, Culture, and Ethnicity Kids notice differences in other people. They are not “colorblind” as some adults like to pretend, and thank God, since all of our many differences are such an important part of our individual and cultural identities. Kids recognize all kinds of differences – from height, to ability (or disability), to skin […]
Ahhh… We got rid of TV (part 4)
We notice that we all miss the TV, and yet we all acknowledge that we would do less creative, active, cuddly stuff together when the TV is on. We miss our shows, but we would also be missing really good connective time together if we were watching our shows. In some ways, the TV definitely […]