by Joanna Jullien | Jun 7, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Depression, Discipline, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Recovery, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Uncategorized, Wisdom, Youth Suicide
As a result of our network culture lifestyle, we are all more vulnerable to believing things that disturb the peace. Especially for youth, it is easy to believe things that are not true (such as “I am not worthy of love and acceptance,” and “all my parents care about...
by Joanna Jullien | Apr 11, 2018 | addiction, Faith, Family, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Recovery, Uncategorized, Wisdom
This morning I attended a talk on “Changing how to talk to and about ourselves,” given by Shawn R. Ernoehazy, MFT, the Program Manager at Harbor Oaks Outpatient Behavioral Health Center in West Sacramento. She addressed the monthly Women’s Association for Addiction...
by Joanna Jullien | Jan 21, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyberbullying, Domestic abuse, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Recovery, Relationship, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Suicide, Uncategorized, Wisdom
I attend training and community events to stay current on the scientific and clinical discoveries that help us to respond well to the stresses of cyber-connectivity and the mental and emotional impact social media has on youth and family relationships. Last Thursday I...
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 | Jun 30, 2017 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Cyberbullying, Drug Abuse and Youth, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Recovery, Relationship, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Suicide, Teen drug addiction, Teenagers, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Over 12 years ago when I refocused my energy away from the corporate world to better understand what it means to grow up with cyber connectivity and the new demands on parents, one of the first things I observed was the parenting culture, the network culture and the...
by Joanna Jullien | Jun 28, 2017 | Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Depression, Faith, Family, Internet Safety, Marijuna use by teens, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Recovery, Relationship, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Substance abuse prevention, Suicide, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Uncategorized, Wisdom
(Below is the message Joanna shared with parents, educators, law enforcement, faith leaders and community leaders at the Coalition for Placer Youth, State of the Youth Community annual luncheon at 180 Church in Rocklin, last May 25. Joanna serves as the Chairperson...