by Valerie | Apr 9, 2024 | Childhood Trauma
How to Help Your Child Work Through Repressed Trauma and Heal Trauma can stick with us if we don’t work through it. Often, traumatic experiences in our childhood can be so overwhelming and threatening that many children (and even adults) repress those memories and...
by Valerie | Mar 26, 2024 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources, School Resources
Motivating the Seemingly Unmotivated Student Teachers deal with students of all kinds, from high academic performers to students who struggle. You may have students who behave well and participate readily and those who seem like they are constantly disrupting class....
by Valerie | Mar 12, 2024 | Parent Resources, School Resources
6 Tips for Becoming a Better Advocate for Your Child While a school’s purpose is to help educate your child, it’s important to remember that a single school is dealing with hundreds of students each day. That is why it is so important for parents to be their child’s...
by Valerie | Feb 3, 2024 | Parent Resources, School Resources
The Emotional Effects of Adverse Childhood Events Traumatic and stressful experiences, in essence, leave behind a scar in our mind. When something scary or traumatic happens to us, it’s hard to forget how it made us feel. Today we are going to look at prolonged trauma...
by Valerie | Feb 3, 2024 | Parent Resources
The Science Behind the Teenage Mind Often when adults talk about today’s teenagers, you hear complaints that today’s teens are worse than when they were young. But practically every generation has said that about younger generations. Even Socrates bemoaned about the...
by Valerie | Dec 30, 2023 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources
Signs of Emotional Abuse in Children and How to Support Their Healing Journey Emotional trauma, or emotional abuse, is just one kind of trauma or abuse one can suffer from. Sometimes it can be difficult to spot the warning signs in the children under your care....
by Valerie | Dec 30, 2023 | Childhood Trauma, School Resources
How to Minimize Disruptive Behaviors in Students When student behaviors disrupt your class, it can be difficult to know how to respond. However, there is science behind these disruptive behaviors and there are some interventions you can use to help the disruptive...
by Valerie | Dec 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Positive Impact of Personal Power in Young Adults Personal power and independence is what helps us get through life. It helps us feel empowered to advocate for ourselves and take control of our own destiny and affect positive change in our lives and the lives of...
by Valerie | Dec 2, 2023 | Childhood Trauma
How to Recognize Toxic Family Dynamics As the holidays are approaching, maybe you’re wondering, “Why don’t I get excited for extended family gatherings? Is there something wrong with me? Am I an unloving person?” Maybe, but maybe not. We grow up in the families we...
by Valerie | Oct 30, 2023 | Childhood Trauma, Parent Resources
What Every Early Childhood Educator Needs to Know About Childhood Trauma Becoming a Childhood Trauma Informed Educator When a child experiences trauma very early in life, it can have a profound impact on their development. Small children with trauma have had their...
