by Joanna Jullien | Feb 5, 2019 | Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Youth, Faith, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Social Media, Suicide, Wisdom, Youth Suicide
Last month at the Women’s Association for Addiction Treatment, Sacramento Chapter member meeting, Dr. Suzanne Pereira, Clinical Director at New Dawn Treatment Centers in Sacramento, spoke about the process of wellness transformation in response to addiction as a...
by Joanna Jullien | Dec 21, 2018 | Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's mental health, Education, Family, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parental Authority, Parenting, Social Media, Texting, Wisdom
As an educator and coach on parenting and family life, I have studied how the pedophiles and commercial interests engage tech-savvy youth so they can exploit them. To that end, I teach caring adults how to engage youth to empower them and impart wisdom. In this...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 7, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Recovery, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Teen Drinking, Teen drug addiction, Teen Drug Use, Teenagers, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Executive summary Suffering is a part of the human condition. And families have power to decide what to think about and how to respond to suffering. Brain science tells us that addiction is a form of suffering; it is a pathological relationship to intoxication* making...
by Joanna Jullien | Apr 4, 2018 | Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Education, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Internet Safety, Internet Social Networks, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Social Media, Uncategorized, Wisdom
On February 28 and March 1, 2018 over 900 educators and school counselors convened at William Jessup University in Rocklin to attend the Second Annual Student Mental Health Conference. The event was organized by Wellness Together, a non-profit devoted to student...
by Joanna Jullien | Mar 5, 2018 | addiction, Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Cyberbullying, Discipline, Drug Abuse and Youth, Education, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Social Media, Teen drug addiction, Wisdom, Youth Suicide
Last week I delivered a training to educators and counselors on how parents can learn to instill learning discipline among tech-savvy youth at a state educators’ conference. Attendees traveled to Rocklin from across the state to learn how to promote mental health...
by Joanna Jullien | Jan 29, 2018 | Abuse & Violence, Anxiety, Bullying, Children's Health & Mental Health, Drug Abuse and Youth, Family, Internet addiction, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Peer abuse, Teen Drinking, Teen drug addiction, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Last week, Dr. Lucy Vezzuto, Coordinator of the K-12 Student Mental Health and Social and Emotional Learning program at the Orange County Department of Education, addressed over 200 parents at the Rocklin Community Center about the stress youth experience and what...
