Stuck in a Virtual Reality
I’ve always loved books and reading. As a kid, I could lose myself for hours in an exotic faraway place, transported by the combination of someone else’s written word and my own imagination. There was...
View ArticleBaby Steps Toward Healing
Perhaps you are a single mother who is working full time. Your kids are with a babysitter or in day care all day. You feel angry, bitter, guilty. Or, maybe you’re a pastor or youth worker in a church....
View Article7 Tips for Diagnosing Your Child’s Brain Disorder
Over the last two decades, the number of brain disorder diagnoses in general has increased exponentially. While some of this increase is due to kids being diagnosed with disorders they don’t have,...
View ArticleSigns Your Son Has A Technology Addiction
Boys have a hard enough time concentrating, contemplating, and reflecting — all executive functions centered in the prefrontal cortex of the brain, an area where teenage males are naturally not as fast...
View ArticleHow To Raise a Happy, Healthy Teen
Whether you have a teenage girl or a teenage boy, there’s a lot going on physically in that body and brain. As a parent, you can create some simple physical conditions to help support your teen’s...
View ArticleManaging the Love Affair with Technology
Getting a novel gadget or using technology in a new way is much like entering into a new relationship. I remember when I got my first computer: I was in love. I remember when I first discovered the...
View ArticleHow To Become a Life-Giving Person
As Mahatma Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped from his foot and landed on the track. The train was already pulling away from the station, and he was unable to retrieve his...
View ArticleWhole-Person Approach to Treating Depression
In a whole-person treatment approach, the entire body is recognized as an important component in depression. The whole-person approach accepts the body as a complex organism and looks for systemic...
View ArticleStudying Your Son’s Multitasking and Critical Thinking
As you consider measuring the impact technology has on your son, be sure to carefully study your son’s ability to multitask, including when his brain gets over-stimulated from too much multitasking....
View ArticleUnderstanding Acute and Chronic Stress
Acute stress is the slam-on-the brakes kind of stress. It’s tied to a specific event that is perceived as either dangerous or demanding. Your body rallies around the emotional reaction of alarm and...
View ArticleCreating an Action Plan for Your New Exercise Routine
Oftentimes, a decision to start exercising is made in desperation and disgust. Desperation says, “Start now and start hard.” Disgust says, “You deserve to feel bad.” These twin voices come from...
View ArticleThe Rise in Prescription Antidepressants
While there is no dispute that the incidence of depression is growing, the response to this growth is changing. The trend has been away from traditional psychotherapy and toward a pharmaceutical...
View ArticleMental Health Expert Calls For National Debate On System That is Failing Boys
PRESS RELEASE April 28, 2015 Media ALERT Mental Health Expert Calls For National Debate On System That is Failing Boys; Discusses Latest in String of School Shootings at North Thurston High School in...
View ArticleDr. Gregory Jantz Advises to Acknowledge Super Bowl Grief, but Avoid...
PRESS RELEASE February 2, 2015 Dr. Gregory Jantz, Founder of The Center • A Place of HOPE in Edmonds and a Big Seahawks Fan, Advises to Acknowledge Super Bowl Grief, but Avoid Over-Identifying Media...
View ArticleCreating Healthy Relationships with Intention
As you work to create a healthier life, it’s important to look at ways you can strengthen your relationships. Strong relationships should be the main source of comfort and gratification in your life....
View ArticleMentor and Monitor Your Child’s Relationships
As your child grows, he or she will come into contact with more and more people outside your family and circle of friends. They will meet coaches, teachers, other parents, other children, and other...
View ArticleThe Quintessential Meaning of Intimacy
In one of the most moving books I’ve read, entitled Letters to an Unborn Child, David Ireland, disabled, confined to a wheelchair and terminally ill, wrote a series of letters to the unborn child he...
View ArticleAnxiety: Accept the Small Stuff
One of the mistaken beliefs surrounding anxiety is that everything that happens centers around you. This mistaken belief can take on a life of its own when you are in anxiety overload. You become a...
View ArticleHelping Children Make Healthy Choices with Technology
The American Association of Pediatrics put out a statement about how parents should interact with media, or what we call technology. Read the list of suggestions from the AAP, and determine when you...
View ArticleKeeping Relationships on Neutral Ground
It was all the computer’s fault, actually. If the computer setup at the campaign headquarters had been better, Jim never would have suggested that he and Tracy go to his place to work on the leaflet....
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