Self-love can sound like a pie-in-the-sky idea but it turns out this simple concept affects our entire life. A poor relationship with ourselves affects our mental, emotional, and physical state. So where does it start? How do we nurture self-love in our teens? And what about us? How does our own relationship with ourselves affect our lives, our family, and our parenting? Expert Paula Galli shares [...]
Children’s emotional and physical health are one and the same. The health of the body impacts our emotions and thoughts. Conversely, our thoughts and feelings impact the body. As our teenagers grow up they experience intense emotions and may even have thoughts of suicide. Actually, 17% of high school students have thought about suicide. Fortunately, parents are in a position to help. Dr. Lia [...]
It’s common to hear college students joking about pulling all-nighters and drinking truly unwise amounts of caffeine to get through classes and clubs and survive that one irritating professor who likes assigning ten-page papers every week. However, this trend of increasingly sleep deprived teenagers is not limited to college students alone; in 2018, the CDC declared a global public health [...]