Eating Disorders in Teenagers The single best thing you can do to treat eating disorders is seek out a psychotherapist or counselor who specializes in treating them. Eating disorders aren’t conditions you can treat by reading a book, blog post, or wikipedia page. It’s a condition that can have fatal consequences, it’s complicated to treat, [...]
Read More eating disorders, eating disorders teenagers, Self Esteem, Teen issuesAbout Eating Disorders If you’re the parent of a young girl, there’s a good chance she’s started struggling with her self-esteem and body-image. All women (and many men) struggle with accepting their bodies and feeling positive about them. But teen girls in particular seem to have trouble with it. Movies, TV, magazines, their peers and [...]
Read More eating disorders, Self Esteem, Teen issuesWhat if facing your fears about Guns would make your family safer? Proper Gun Safety and gun handling skills could save your life! The biggest fear every parent has around guns is that their child might find one and use it to hurt themselves, because they don’t know what the gun does or how the [...]
Read More guiding your teen, gun issues, Gun Safety, guns, Teen issuesAre you truly protecting your teens from Guns by NOT talking about Gun Safety? Americans can’t stop talking about guns, gun safety, gun violence, and gun control. Events like Sandy Hook & Aurora are catalysts for the seemingly never-ending, highly charged debate about gun violence. The dialogue continues because the issue of gun violence is [...]
Read More Gun Safety, Safety, self esteem for teens, Teen Safety and GunsIn my last blog, I talked about the growing epidemic of cell phone addiction. When you feel the compulsive need to constantly check your phone, even if you’re driving, in the restroom, or in a social situation… This is a sign of cell phone addiction. Teens today are the most susceptible to cell phone addiction, [...]
Read More cell phone addiction, technology, teensCell phone addiction is much more common than you might think. Most of us can’t stay away from our phones (or tablets) these days. People will check their phones anywhere, in the middle of conversations, at stop lights, while they’re driving… The list goes on. In some ways, we shouldn’t be surprised that so many [...]
Read More cell phone addiction, technology, Teen issuesStep 1 in combatting self-hate (the same first step I talked about in Part 2 of my Positive Self-Talk series) is awareness. You need to be aware of what’s going on in your mind, and you need to recognize the messages of self-hate when you hear them. Self-hate is a survival strategy that we DON’T need [...]
Read More Self Development, Self Esteem, self-hateSelf-hate is the enemy of positive self-talk. In my previous posts I talked about your inner negative voice, and in this next series of posts I’m going to try and explain the source of that inner negative voice: self-hate. Self-hate inarguably transcends countries, continents, and cultures. You can see examples of it all over the world. This [...]
Read More Self Development, Self Esteem, wisdomThe key to learning positive self-talk is being aware of your own thoughts. Many of us walk around, directed by our own inner negative voice, and accepting what it says as fact… Without ever questioning it, like it’s just a piece of background noise that you can do nothing about. You have to put a [...]
Read MoreIsn’t self talk (especially positive self talk) something that crazy or narcissistic people do? Well it’s not as crazy as it sounds! It’s actually not crazy at all. Because we already talk to ourselves. We have an inner voice, a part of ourself that talks about our life as it happens. It’s us, and we’re [...]
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