Defending hope for you and your family amid pandemic stress
The collective response to the coronavirus pandemic (i.e., shelter-in-place) has interrupted our lives with new demands on parents to be teachers as well as employees at home and created economic upheavals that can lead to mental states of hopeless. The feeling of...
Coping with pandemic losses: Free support group for high school seniors
Amy Rose Vergie is the Program Director for Recovery Happens, a drug counseling and treatment center for adolescent and young adults with locations in Fair Oaks, Roseville, Davis, Walnut Creek and San Raphael. “We have set up a support group, facilitated by our...
Shelter in place: Resilient responses and resources for you and your family
During this COVID19 shelter-in-place response, the most important thing we can teach our youth is how to be aware, well-informed and unafraid. Let me offer a real-life example. The other day while on a long walk with my husband, a young boy riding his bike was...
Learning how to fear well: Teach your child to have a disciplined response to a pandemic
The advent of mobile connectivity and social media places new demands on parents to teach children how to fear. Learning how to fear is an important life skill in a cyber-powered world that hypes anxiety and shame-inspiring experiences and thoughts (i.e., bullying,...
The biology of love: Insights on being a joyful parent
Yesterday I attended a very instructive and inspirational presentation by Barbara Field, LMFT at the Sacramento Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment. Her topic was the on the neurobiology of secure attachment and its relationship to addiction. In other words,...
