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Summertime, Kids, and Mental Health
Mindful Media: Family Dynamics Edition
Mindful Media is all about reintegrating mental health into our modern lifestyle, and we’ve got some tips to help you discover how to accomplish them in the midst of dynamic family relationship. Social media is synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business...
Parents and Adult Children
For better or worse, family relationships shape our well-being and mental health for our whole lives. Interestingly, as life expectancy has lengthened, so too has the relationship between parents and their children evolved and changed over time. With more parents and...
Mindful Media: Back-to-School Edition 2023
Mindful Media is all about reintegrating mental health into our modern lifestyle, and we’ve got some tips to help you discover how the summer break offers a great opportunity to do just that. Social media is synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business...
Back-to-School and Mental Health
The back-to-school season affects everyone. Maybe you’re a student overwhelmed with excitement and nerves for a fresh school experience, or a parent desperately trying to get their kids back on schedule. Perhaps you’re a teacher stepping back into your superhero suit,...
Trickle Up and Down Stress
We all know what stress feels like, and nobody would say that it’s very fun. With back-to-school season comes bouts of chaos and stress as schedules boost into overdrive and life picks back up in intensity for kids and adults who have any connection to school. Thus,...
Summertime, Kids, and Mental Health
Summertime, kids, and mental health are all intertwined. Realizing just how influential this exciting season is on children’s mental wellness is extremely beneficial in regards to mindful behavior management. Summer break is often lauded as the most fun time of the...
Mindful Media: Summer Edition
Mindful Media is all about reintegrating mental health into our modern lifestyle, and we’ve got some tips to help you discover how the summer break offers a great opportunity to do just that. Social media is synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business...
“Parenting” is a Red Herring, and Kids’ Mental Health is Suffering
Let’s start with the definition of parenting. After 16 years as a psychiatrist, Dr. Dixon defines parenting as “providing basic food, shelter, clothing, and education.” That’s it. Curating the scaffold for your child’s coping skills and subsequent social development...
Mindful Media: Back-to-School Edition
Social media is now synonymous with overreaching advertising. From a business perspective, it’s an extremely efficient marketing tool. But from the mental health standpoint, social media has morphed into a behemoth of toxic addiction that causes depression and...
Adult Summer Camps? YES!
Summer is upon us! For kids, that generally means a break from school, more time to go to the pool, a chance to hang out with friends, and even go on vacations or summer camps to have blissful fun and make lasting memories. But as a whole grown-up with a job and...