Posts tagged child counselor st. louis
Letting Go to Grow: Prioritizing Friendships that Uplift

When certain friends become less present in your life, focus your energy and time on the things you can control.

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Help Your Child Regulate Emotions With A Calming Space

To help children self-regulate, create a space in their home where they can calm down and press the restart button when feeling overwhelmed.

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Taking Control: The Importance of Healthy Boundaries

Boundaries not only keep us safe, but they also assist us in meeting our own needs.

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The Transformative Journey of Counseling

I like to use imagery to explain how counseling works. In this article, I explain to you in a very simple way how counseling can not only improve your emotional wellness, but it can also physically change how your brain.

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The Power of Childhood Experiences: Shaping Our Stories and Realities

Our childhood experiences lay the foundation for who we are, what we believe, and where we are going in life. It is during childhood, that we come to understand ourselves in relation to others. What we learn as a child becomes the basis of what we call normal. Through our experiences, we create a story of who we are and what we deserve in life.

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Tackling Excessive Screen Time: A Guide for Parents

When children take part in excessive online gaming, they are training their brains to use the lower level functioning part of their brains, a part of their brain that all animals have, rather than the higher functioning part of brain that is unique to humans. As a result, rather than stopping and thinking before acting, they are training their brains to react with survival instincts.

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