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What Can Mindfulness Do For You?
Mindfulness is one of those buzzwords that nonprofits, corporations, and some parts of social media just found out about. And even though it’s really popular right now, not many people seem to really know what it is or which mindfulness techniques to use in their everyday life. Most people seem to think mindfulness is just…
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You Probably Think This Kid Is About You Part 1: Is Having Kids Right For The Relationship?
“So when you having kids?” Having kids has become just one of those things people do. Graduate school. Get a job. Date. Get married. Have babies. Get a house. Die. A checkbox on the list of life. It’s taken for granted that everyone is having kids to the point that people side-eye folks who decide to…
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Finding the Energy to Brush Your Teeth: Hygiene & Mental Health
I got the inspiration to write something about maintaining personal and mental hygiene a year or two ago when someone posted a lifehack article about hygiene on Twitter. I saw a lot of people crack jokes about laziness and “dirty” people and I realized many people aren’t aware of what it’s like to live…
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Corporal Punishment/Public Humiliation Part 2: Alternatives
This is Part 2 of a 2-part series on corporal punishment and public humiliation as child abuse. Here is Part 1, which covers how attempting to discipline children through beatings and shaming actually hurts child development. This part will cover alternatives to corporal punishment/public humiliation and talking about the psychology of how humans learn (Example:…
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Corporal Punishment/Public Humiliation Part 1: Effects on Child Development
This a 2-part prequel to a 4-part Intentional Parenting series I want to start in April and continue 1x a month until July, writing from the perspective of a therapist providing supportive counseling to individuals interested in having or people who already have children. But before I start the series, I want to make sure that…