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In order to learn to tolerate emotions, I find that it helps to think of them as if you are standing in the ocean, facing out to sea, with the water at about your waistline, your back to the beach. Now imagine that a wave is coming towards you. You cannot stop it. You cannot […]

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, […]