Anxiety is normal. When you think of speaking in front of people, there’s some anxiety. When you need to take a test, there is anxiety. When we are not sure if a person will like us, there is anxiety. Anxiety can become overwhelming, when the anxiety is more in control of you than you in [...]

Marriage is a partnership. Two people came together, bringing all different sorts of wonderful and unique aspects into the marriage.
Each individual has their traits, personalities, frustration and limitations that are brought to the marriage. Combining the differences from the wife and husband can create a great marriage or a really difficult one.
Marriage is [...]

I was watching Dr. Phil who is beginning his next Parent Boot Camp (teens/kids too) and it was interesting to listen to the parents and hear how they talk about their kids.
The parents were not happy with their teen, did not particularly like them, very angry and frustrated with them, wanted to stop being [...]

If you have watched Dr. Phil, there was a show about texting. This also has been on the news.
Sexting is sending nude or partial nude pictures through text on phones. Texts can include sexual explicit information, not just pictures.
A statistic that I heard from www.freedombeginshere.org said that 39% of teens between 13-16 years [...]

Change can be very hard to do. Complacency and staying the same is so much easier to do.
When we do things, out of habit, it does not cause the body to be out of balance. The body and mind can do things without even thinking about it. For example: tying our shoes, brushing our [...]

Teenagers and the Brain!!
From the book, Evolve Your Brain by Joe Dispenza writes this about the frontal lobe and teenagers:
One of the reasons teenagers are so impulsive is that the frontal lobe takes time to develop fully. In an article published by Nature magazine in 1999, researcher Jay Giedd and his associates from the [...]

Forgiveness is to “grant free pardon and to give up all claim on account of an offense or debt”, Wikipedia, 2009. Forgiveness can also be refusing to hurt the person who has hurt you; it’s not denying that something bad has happened. Forgiveness prevents the deed from doing any further damage than it already has [...]

Change is inevitable. It happens around us and even as this article is being written.
When a person is in control of change, it feels good, exciting, a little nervous and maybe even a little sad. When change is out of a person’s control, it hurts even more because the change was not expected.
There are many [...]

Marriage is a wonderful relationship; some may see it as an institution and maybe so, but it does not have to have a negative meaning attached to it.
Marriage takes work. It took work to get the person you chose to fall in love with, and it continues to take work after the vows to stay [...]

Speaking to teenagers can be very difficult. It is really difficult when the only responses are: “yeah”; “no”; “shoulder shrug”; “whateva”; or the famous one, “I don’t know”. Other difficulties with communicating with teens can be: the ipod in their ears, a sign on their door says not to enter, on Facebook or Myspace, out [...]