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,...
by Joanna Jullien | Aug 6, 2019 | Abuse & Violence, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Discipline, Faith, Family, God's love, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parenting, Social Media, Suicide, Teenagers, Wisdom, Youth violence
In a world where it is possible for an individual to commit mass murder, who is really in control? This is the unsettling question we ask ourselves in the wake of the recent mass murders in Gilroy, and over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton, and with the other mass...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 9, 2018 | Abuse & Violence, Anxiety, Boundaries, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, God's love, Parental Authority, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Relationship, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Our Core Connectivity guest blogger, Dr. Susan G. Weinberger, founder of the Mentor Consulting Group in Norwalk, CT, is a dear friend and colleague. Over the past 12 years we have shared a passion to respond to the issues of modern youth by educating one another...
by Joanna Jullien | Oct 31, 2017 | Abuse & Violence, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Faith, Family, God's love, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parental Authority, Parenting, Social Media, Uncategorized
Executive summary On September 22, 2017, Core Connectivity organized a symposium on countering violent extremism among youth held at the Sacramento City Police Community Center in South Sacramento. Below are some the insights I gleaned from the event: Violent...
by Joanna Jullien | Oct 24, 2017 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Cyber Safety, Drug Abuse and Youth, Faith, Family, God's love, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Recovery, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Uncategorized
There is something incredibly transformative and resilient about a person who suffers well. The person who seeks to know and do better in response to pain and then help others in their own suffering, brings forth a torch of resilience that can only be nurtured from...
by Joanna Jullien | Oct 23, 2017 | Faith, Family, God's love, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Uncategorized, Wisdom
My friend and colleague Kim Fredrickson, MFT, is releasing her new book about parenting with compassion:Give Your Kids a Break – Parenting with Compassion for You and Your Children. After the past decade of teaching people to have compassion for themselves, she...
