by Guest Blogger | Jun 21, 2022 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Social-Emotional Learning
Childhood can be a difficult time for many kids, and when anxiety and stress rear their ugly heads, even the most routine of tasks can become overwhelming. Many young people suffer from these feelings, and while they are caused by lots of different things (school...
by Lacey | May 25, 2022 | Digging Deep Project, Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Social-Emotional Learning
This month has been beyond emotionally tumultuous in the United States. Not even two weeks after the tragedy in Buffalo, NY, an elementary school has been devastated by gun violence. It’s a worst nightmare for anyone – parents, students, educators. Parents...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jan 25, 2022 | Chronic/Serious Illness, Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Uncategorized
As an educational psychologist at a K-8 school with a mission for gifted education and also in private practice, I work with a lot of parents who have spent years fighting for their kids’ mental and physical health. I’ve had a few parents whose kids are...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jan 20, 2022 | Education/Parenting, Inspiration, Mental Health
In March 2020, we all stepped out our doors into the unknown, but I didn’t realize it until about a week ago — I am a slow processor. My response to the pandemic was to make strict daily schedules of work, schoolwork and activities for me and my family....
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jan 18, 2022 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health
Having lived through two years of pandemic, it can seem like we’ve adapted to a new baseline level of stress and anxiety — as if we’ve come to terms with stress and anxiety to the point they don’t really affect us anymore. Let me tell you, this...
by Kristi Pikiewicz | Jan 11, 2022 | Education/Parenting, Mental Health, Social-Emotional Learning
A couple weeks ago I went a few minutes over with an adult client, pushing back the start of my next session. The following week, this second client showed up a couple minutes late and when she sat on the couch, it seemed she couldn’t get comfortable, fidgeting and...
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