Defending your family unity in uncertain times

by Joanna Jullien | Apr 29, 2020 | Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Faith, Family, God's love, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parenting, Recovery, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Wisdom

Pandemic science and amazing communication technology have enabled societies around the globe to respond in unison to the threat of coronavirus. Our collective response has been to “shelter-in-place” and “close up shop” until we have gathered enough data to inform...

Reconciling COVID19 with God’s divine plan: Biblical insights on crisis, love and resilience in the family

by Joanna Jullien | Apr 28, 2020 | Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Discipline, Faith, Family, God's love, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parental control, Parenting, Parenting adult children, Relationship, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Wisdom

This online training is for parenting children of any age.  Who should attend? Parents who seek to strengthen their Christian values at home amidst a cyber-powered popular culture that hypes fear and anxiety. Parents of all creeds who seek to strengthen family bonds...

Pandemic thought leadership: Know the difference between a predicament and a problem

by Joanna Jullien | Apr 2, 2020 | Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Discipline, Family, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Wisdom

Crucial Conversation Concepts Guidance for conversations with youth in a cyber-powered world, wherein it is easy to believe things that are not true and focus on things that do not really matter. As we work through the global response to the Corona pandemic, the most...

The biology of love: Insights on being a joyful parent

by Joanna Jullien | Mar 13, 2020 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Faith, Family, God's love, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parenting, Recovery, Social Media, Wisdom

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,...

The wisdom of love in an evidence-based culture: Parenting an anxious child

by Joanna Jullien | Feb 11, 2020 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Depression, Drug Abuse and Youth, Eating disorders, Faith, Family, Internet porn, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parental Authority, Parenting, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Wisdom

Last month I was honored to deliver a training on The Role of the Parent in Healing a Suffering Child: Insights about love in response to anxiety and addiction as a family disease (affair) at the community lunch and learn event sponsored by Sierra Vista Hospital....

On the spiritual and emotional intelligence of being a parent today (Part Two): The authority to love

by Joanna Jullien | Feb 11, 2020 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's mental health, Faith, Family, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Recovery, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Wisdom

Executive Summary This feature is Part Two of the discourse On the need for spiritual and emotional intelligence in being a parent today (Part One), based upon a training at Sierra Vista Hospital last month about the role of a parent in healing a suffering child....