-Renee Jain, MAPP Your four-year-old demands a bowl of ice cream for breakfast. You sense a forthcoming meltdown and quickly evaluate your parenting-style options: (1) Permissive: Say “yes” (then prepare to serve cookies for lunch and cake for dinner). (2) Authoritative: Say “no” directly and firmly (then prepare to stand your ground as there willContinue reading “When Your Parenting Style Wears You Out”
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Some Habits Are Harder to Break Than Others
-Neil Petersen Our lives are full of habits, healthy and unhealthy, big and small. Sometimes we don’t even realize how deeply ingrained some of our regular behaviors are until we try to break them. According to a new study from researchers at University of Regensburg, some habits might be harder to reverse than others. SomeContinue reading “Some Habits Are Harder to Break Than Others”
Parent of a Child Who is Struggling? Here are 7 Things Other Parents Want You to Know
-Ann Douglas It isn’t easy to be the parent of a child who is struggling. You may be feeling stressed and overwhelmed and unsure of what to do to help. You may be feeling frustrated and angry or worried and scared – or sad that life is so difficult for your child. You may beContinue reading “Parent of a Child Who is Struggling? Here are 7 Things Other Parents Want You to Know”
Who Did You Have to Be For Your Father?
-Paul Graves It’s a simple question I heard on the Timothy Ferriss podcast. It was a recent episode featuring Tony Robbins. At first, I thought “Huh?” Turns out Tony uses this question to uncover internal conflicts. To find the things we beat ourselves up for without knowing why. The high standards we yearn to achieve,Continue reading “Who Did You Have to Be For Your Father?”
Our ‘Second Brain’ – And Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Mood
-Karen, Hey Sigmund Hidden in the walls of our digestive system is something extraordinary. Scientists have known about it for a while, but new technology is taking the research to the cutting edge. What is being discovered there will revolutionise the way we think about mental and physical health. What happens in our head has aContinue reading “Our ‘Second Brain’ – And Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Mood”
Can You Cheat at Mindfulness and Self Compassion?
-Kellie Edwards I have a client who laughingly says she loves to “cheat the system” — find a short cut, an easier way, a faster route and get “more bang for her buck.” She remembers doing it as a child at school. When she was supposed to be learning how to touch type she gotContinue reading “Can You Cheat at Mindfulness and Self Compassion?”
Amplify Wellness with Meg Duke 