Articles and Resources
The AEIOU Strategy for Dealing with Worry
You own your Worry, and absolutely can kick it out of your world. Here’s how.
Conversation Starters for Asking Kids About the First Days/Weeks of School
How to dig below “fine” to engage your kids in “how was school?” conversations that matter.
Guided Autobiography Gives the Gift of ‘Telling Your Story’
Nancy Sharp believes that every life is unique and worthy of further exploration and sharing. It is this belief that leads her to the practice and instruction of Guided Autobiography.
3 Psychological Supports for Kids in High-Pressure Situations
By paying attention to the mental health of our young people as they experience stressful situations, we can help them do their best in the moment and find longevity in whatever activities they choose.
The Power of Assigning Meaning to a Memory
Would you believe that at 40 years old, even with the personal work I’ve done on myself, I still feel guilty at times for what my 4-year old self did or didn’t do?
5 Ways to Stay Positive When Sick or Injured
It’s been 3 months since my injury, 11 weeks since surgery, 5 weeks since ending IV antibiotics…and I just want to be miserable.
Why are the last weeks of the school year so hard?
We think of summer vacation as a joyous time for kids, but it’s also a gaping void swirling with uncertainty.
The Lies I Believed While Living in Fear (And the Truths I Know Now)
The thing about fear is that when you live with it for so long and it inundates you, it either breaks you or you break free from it.
3 Things we can Learn from Isolation
Being alone is powerful. What did you learn from isolation?
FindMeCure Connects Chronic Illness Patients with Clinical Trials
Patients who join a clinical trial receive an innovative treatment for free that may significantly improve symptoms.
In Rock Climbing and Life, Injury is a New Beginning
All along I’ve been saying, “Let’s go climbing this weekend,” when what I really meant was, “Let’s share an experience together.”
2021 is Time to Fly Across the Canyon of the Unknown
There are skills you can develop to help you reimagine your future and fly across this Grand Canyon of the unknown.
Time, Patience, Healing: A Cancer Survivor’s Perspective on Recovering from Injury
I realized the constant pushing for a hyper-full life because “there just isn’t enough time,” actually limits my life.
A Boulder Psychologist on Talking to Kids About Mass Shootings
I’m writing this the morning after the mass shooting at a King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado… my neighborhood grocery store.
A Simple Way to Focus on What You Can Control
Focusing on the excellence of your approach and your own experience can make you (and especially me…) a better athlete and a better person.
How to Meditate With Your Dog
I recently found I have had an untapped meditative source for many years, right with me at all times: My dog.
Making Good Habits Last
In my experience, it’s tough to swim with a greased watermelon. Now it’s the best metaphor I know for the difficulty of getting a good habit to stick.
Resources to Build and Support Mental Health Resilience
Think about a time in your life when you felt like your mental health and mental wellbeing were strong. Chances are other things were going well in your life at that point, too. Maybe you were motivated and pushing forward with career or school, or felt grounded in...
Can Resistance Help You Identify Soil for Growth?
Perhaps you may discover something by simply noticing your resistance.
After the Traumatic Stress of 2020, Positive Psychology Offers the Opportunity for Posttraumatic Growth
Prioritizing purpose and connection can help people who have experienced the traumas of 2020 move toward posttraumatic growth instead of posttraumatic stress.
After COVID, will I be able to enjoy the activities I used to love without anxiety?
With our lives opening back up, it seems like we might be able to go back to “normal.” But that’s not how it seems to be working for me or for my kids.
A Letter to the Little Voice of Anorexia in my Head
“Although I broke away from you a while ago, you never completely disappeared.”
The Child Mind Institute’s Guide to Seasonal Affective Disorder
How to recognize S.A.D. in your kids — and what to do about it.
Remembering what our bodies know to be true
Leaning into our fear is a step toward letting it go.
I Thought I Could Keep Everything Normal for my Family
I thought I understood how my daughter was experiencing COVID. And then she wrote this poem.
There was a time when I hated Christmas…
It was mainly loneliness that took over and even envy when I saw other people’s Christmas celebrations…
Why Do We Resist Caring for Ourselves?
It isn’t our fault – we were patterned to look and act like everything is okay.
COVID Fatigue, Teenage Anxiety and the Antidote of Hope
As my grandmother told me, “I know this feels so hard right now but it will not feel this way forever.”
COVID Second Chances
Is COVID-19 the universe’s way of saying you weren’t quite ready yet?