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This Will Get Better: The Surprising Benefits of Delayed Gratification

This Will Get Better: The Surprising Benefits of Delayed Gratification

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

What happens when we can’t do what we want right now? It's natural to feel angry, frustrated or resentful. Your power to handle disappointment well is a benefit of delayed gratification. When something blocks us from something that matters to us,…

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How Does Social Media Affect Teenagers? A Parent’s Guide To Influencers

How Does Social Media Affect Teenagers? A Parent’s Guide To Influencers

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

Teenage years are an important time for teens to form new relationships. Some of these relationships include social media influencers. Teens want to fit in and feel accepted among friends. Influencers are often part of this fitting in process. Yet teenage…

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How to Get Free From Beliefs That Keep You Stuck with EMDR

How to Get Free From Beliefs That Keep You Stuck with EMDR

  • Post author:Katherine Hughes, LCSW
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

Many of us deal with tremendous stress every day. Too much stress can damage our sense of wellbeing. We may struggle with a relationship, a job, an illness, or powerlessness about violence and problems in the news. But if we feel…

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11 Common Questions about Healing Trauma with EMDR

11 Common Questions about Healing Trauma with EMDR

  • Post author:Katherine Hughes, LCSW
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

You can probably think of a time when you were truly terrified. If you can recall it calmly now that’s a good sign you’ve healed from the experience. You feel secure, knowing the bad experience is in the past. Ideally, our…

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How to Help Older Children and Teens Manage Emotions

How to Help Older Children and Teens Manage Emotions

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

When children are little, parents have lots of control over their activities and choices. Parents can directly impact what happens when children act out or become upset. All this changes with teenage emotions. A parent's direct control diminishes as young children…

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How to Help Young Children Manage Emotions Without Leaving Emotional Scars

How to Help Young Children Manage Emotions Without Leaving Emotional Scars

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

One of the biggest -- and toughest -- jobs parents have is helping children manage strong emotions.  When our child is acting out or has an emotional outburst, it can make us as parents feel anxious, helpless, and sometimes angry.  Typically,…

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Overweight and Anorexic – How it Happens, How to Help

Overweight and Anorexic – How it Happens, How to Help

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Eating Disorders

A person can be both overweight and anorexic. A focus on weight alone is misleading as a signal to seek treatment, because a person's near- or above-normal weight may mask life-threatening behavior based on anxiety around food. A person with disordered…

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Anorexia: What You Need to Know About the Deadliest Mental Health Disorder

Anorexia: What You Need to Know About the Deadliest Mental Health Disorder

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

Anorexia has the highest death rate of any mental disorder says the NIH. That's why I want more people to know about eating disorders, and how to respond to those who are struggling. Eating disorders are among the most difficult mental…

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How to Rekindle a Marriage or Relationship: Part 2

How to Rekindle a Marriage or Relationship: Part 2

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

How can you rekindle a marriage or relationship? When you think, "there's no emotional connection," it really hurts. It's only human to spring into action. There's an urge to "fix it" and attack the issue at its source. This is especially…

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How to Bring Intimacy Back Into A Relationship: Part 1

How to Bring Intimacy Back Into A Relationship: Part 1

  • Post author:Dr Jennifer McEwan
  • Post category:Healthy Relationships

Couples want to know what to do when the spark fades in their marriage or committed partnership. How can a couple that is struggling bring intimacy back into a relationship? Couples find themselves having little or no sex for many reasons.…

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