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Greenwood & Indianapolis, IN
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Building a Career Without Losing Yourself: Early-Career Burnout
For many young professionals, the first few years of a career are exciting. They’re filled with new opportunities, new responsibilities, and the satisfaction of finally seeing years of education and…
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After-School Meltdowns: Why Kids Fall Apart at Home
A lot of parents experience the same confusing moment after school. Their child walks through the door and completely falls apart. Maybe they start crying over something tiny. Perhaps they…
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Back-to-School Challenge No One Talks About: Social Anxiety
When adults think about back-to-school stress, academics usually get most of the attention. But for many kids, the social side of school is actually much harder. Friendships carry enormous emotional…
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Why Back-to-School Season Is Hard on Parents Too
Back-to-school season isn’t just stressful for kids. Parents feel it too. In fact, many parents walk into August already mentally exhausted. It feels like a fresh start, but there is…
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The Emotional Backpack: New School Year, New Fears
As summer winds down, we receive the school supply list from our kid’s school. Parents start shopping for backpacks, lunchboxes, notebooks, pencils, and crayons. But as a mental health counselor,…
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Listen to Your Body: Use Body-Based Practices for Self-Reflection
When we think about self-reflection, we often picture it happening from the neck up journaling, thinking, praying, processing. And those things are effective and helpful. What we don’t often think…
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What This Season of Change Is Trying to Tell You
Life has a rhythm. Children grow up and leave. A new baby arrives. A wedding day comes and goes. A child steps off the elementary school bus for the last…
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Using Change as an Opportunity for Growth
Change is one of the few constants in life, yet even positive transitions can feel deeply unsettling. A new relationship, career shift, move, becoming a parent, children leaving home, divorce,…
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Understand Life Transitions Through Lens of Systems Theory
Life transitions have a way of reshaping everything around us. Some changes arrive by choice (marriage, a new career, becoming a parent) while others emerge unexpectedly through grief, illness, separation,…
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Slow Down and Give Yourself Some Margin
Ask most parents and spouses what they wish they had more of, and the answer is almost always time. Time to connect. Being able to breathe and actually being present…