When Your Parenting Style Wears You Out

-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”

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?”