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How you begin is everything.

Gottman repair checklist. Useful stuff here!

When you're not sure what to say or do to help your anxious child, try these!

Helpful responses to your child's negative self-talk.

Can you make it to the end? Compassion comes from understanding another person's context and experience. This video gives you a small sense of what the sensory overload of autism feels like.

If you have a child with performance anxiety, or you struggle with it yourself, rather than battle to eliminate and negate your body's reaction, try this simple reframe to shift your response to stress.

Understanding how the cortex and limbic system work can empower children to self-regulate.

Empathy is powerful.

Research based tips on how to make the most of your date night. :)

This article offers a useful communication tool that can diffuse tension, while letting the other person know what's going on in your head, so you can clear the air. It seems to be rooted in a therapeutic school of thought called narrative therapy. Approaching problems using this method gives you an opportunity to fact check your assumptions. The power of acknowledging that you have a story you are telling yourself in your head, to try to make sense of your experience, is that you can then revise that often painful story with new information.

This is a helpful guide filled with basic, everyday, really simple things you can try, when you're feeling down and stuck.

If a person answers honestly, this test can be very useful for assessing problem drinking.

Divorcing parents, this pretty much sums it up!

Why limiting screen time for kids is a good idea: