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Sarah Smith, director of the Start Talking! program, cites research that finds that  shows that kids are up to 50 percent less likely to use drugs if they simply talk about it with parents or other trusted adults: http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/01/kids_less_likely_to_abuse_drug.html  

Colin Espie, professor of sleep medicine at Oxford University claims a smelly room could interfere with a teenager’s ability to sleep properly.: “The smelly teenager’s bedroom is a byproduct of the fact that the room is full of rebreathed air, which is low in oxygen and high in nitrogen. If you keep on rebreathing the same […]

Whether it is anxiety, fear, anger, sadness, etc; most of us know that experience when we are filled with an inconvenient and undeniable feeling. Imagine that feeling as an uninvited person who is getting into your car. Imagine that you are driving a car, and then that familiar uninvited feeling shows up, be it spontaneously, […]

Sometimes, in order to avoid acting on my emotions or reactions, I find that it helps to separate them from myself. I even imagine an emotion as a separate ‘person,’ giving me bad advice. How I see that person depends on the feeling. Anger reminds me of the sidekick to the bad guy in teen […]