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The Single Most Important Parenting Strategy | Becky Kennedy | TED Everyone loses their temper from time to time — but the stakes are dizzyingly high when the focus of your fury is your own child. Clinical psychologist and r...

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6 years ago today, we saw our very first client at ThinkWell!

Evolution is a reason our brain is wired to go to the negative. The good news is, we can help ourselves to have a different outlook. One thing that can help is to spend a few minutes each morning identifying 3 things you look forward to for the day. This little task will give you a little dopamine hit to start your day. ThinkWell can help you take a more mindful approach. Give us a call!

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Why Our Brains Are Hardwired to Focus on the Negative The brain has a built-in negative bias that causes us to focus on bad things. This negativity bias can have an impact on our behavior and decisions.

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The foundational aspects of emotional agility address “going to” your thoughts, emotions, and values, and being open to what they have to tell you.

This entails asking questions like “How are you feeling?” and “How are your thoughts and emotions impacting you?”

With that base of self-knowledge, you can then graduate to skills that center on “going through” or moving on—the stage in which you apply the insights gained from your emotions.

It involves questions like “Which action would be values aligned?” and “What are some options for dealing with this emotion?”

I don’t get to say this often, but as we welcome a new therapist, we have openings for new clients that are teens or adults. Feel free to refer your friends and family members that maybe looking for mental health counseling.

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“We can’t promise you’ll go from hating the holidays to Buddy the Elf, but mitigating how challenging the season is for you is def possible.”

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You're Not Weird or Broken If You're Dreading the Holidays If this time of year leaves you feeling more blah than fa-la-la-la-la, you’re not the only one internally screaming, "I hate the holidays."

When I ask clients to consider if they have too much screen time, I also ask them to look at how that screen time is used. It can be useful, but also can be harmful. Learning to differentiate what the role is in your life is important to mental health.

Screen Time for Adults: What is Too Much & Ways to Reduce Your Screen Time - Recommended Screen Time by Age | Discover Brillia Find out the effects of excessive screen time for adults, recommended screen time by age, and how to reduce your use of screens.

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ADHD and Anger: How They Are Connected ADHD can include symptoms of anger, frustration, and irritability. We'll break it down.

SNAPCHAT: Does your child use Snapchat? It's a popular app with teenagers used for creating multimedia messages referred to as "snaps" that consist of a photo or a short video, and can be edited to include filters and effects, text captions, and drawings. While the premise behind the app seems innocent, it can lead to problems if used inappropriately. With school about to start, be sure you are up to speed on all that snapshot offers(good and bad).

Snapchat offers extra protections for 13-to-17-year-olds, including requiring teens to be mutually connected or in their respective phone contacts before they can start communicating.
Please follow the links below to learn more about tools parents can access to learn more about Snapchat safety:

➡️Snap has a set of in-app parental tools called Family Center. The goal of these tools is to help parents get insight into how their teens are using Snapchat, including who they are communicating with and what public content they are viewing. https://values.snap.com/safety/family-center

➡️Easily report concerning accounts to Snap’s 24/7 Trust and Safety team. You can learn more here: https://values.snap.com/safety/safety-reporting

➡️Here is a list of important actions to help protect your teens on Snapchat.

❗️FAMILY AND FRIENDS ONLY: Tell your teen to only invite and accept Friends on Snapchat if they are friends in real life or family members. Encourage them to check their Friends List regularly to make sure they still want to be in touch with each friend.

❗️LOCATION AND PRIVACY SETTINGS: Talk to your teen about their location and privacy settings. At Snapchat, privacy settings are turned on by default, so people can only see the things you want to share, for as long as you want to share them.

❗️IN-APP REPORTING: Make sure your teen knows how to use our in-app reporting tools and that we don’t tell Snapchatters who reported them. These reports go directly to our 24/7 Trust and Safety team to investigate and take appropriate action. We also offer reporting tools on our website for those who don’t use Snapchat – which any parent can easily use.

❗️THINK BEFORE YOU SEND: Remind your teen that, as with sharing anything online, it’s important to be really careful about sending anyone – even a partner or close friend – personal or sensitive images and information. Snaps and Chats may delete by default, but there are ways to capture images from a phone or other device without a person’s consent. This is true despite Snapchat sending a notification in some instances when a screenshot is taken.

❗️JOIN FAMILY CENTER: Make sure you and your teen are signed up for Snapchat’s Family Center.

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A psychologist says these 7 skills separate successful kids from 'the ones who struggle'—and how parents can teach them Thrivers are raised, not born. Through her decades of research, psychologist and parenting expert Michele Borba found seven traits kids need in order to become resilient, mentally strong and self-aware adults. Here's how parents can teach them.

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These habits can cut the risk of depression in half, a new study finds — NPR New evidence shows that people who maintain a range of healthy habits, from good sleep to physical activity to strong social connections, are significantly less likely to experience depression.