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Managing Perfectionism and Pressure in High-Achieving Teens [Podcast Episode]

Do you have a high-achieving teen at home? They’re the teens that stay up late at night, working insanely long hours on homework. They get upset when they don’t get straight A’s. The ones having...

Why Does Parenting Feel So Hard Right Now? [Podcast Episode]

Collectively, we’re coming out of an extremely hard, even traumatic time. We couldn’t wait for life to go ‘back to normal’ but instead of easily sliding back into that ‘normal life’, many of us are...

[REWIND] Mental Health For Young Athletes – Part 2: What Can We Learn From Simone Biles? – With Michael Atunrase

Mental health for young athletes is not getting enough attention in sports training, and we’re not the only ones who think so. Michael Atunrase, founder and head coach of Resilience Fitness &...

[REWIND] Mental Health For Athletes: An Interview With Michael Atunrase

College students struggling with mental health… recently, we’ve been seeing it on the news too often. Sport is an amazing thing but we shouldn’t forget about balance, identity, and a sense of...

Apologizing For Teens & (Young) Adults: How To Actually Do It Right

Apologizing, we do it all the time but it doesn’t always have the effect we hope for, does it? We make a lot of mistakes when it comes to apologizing (yep, us included) and that isn’t beneficial for...

How To Teach Your Kids To Apologize

How do we teach our kids to apologize in a healthier way that helps them feel good about themselves, learn from their mistakes, and improve and repair their relationships? That’s the question we’re...

Suicide Prevention Awareness Month

September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. This awareness month can be difficult for many survivors and suicide prevention advocates. The mental health community has often...

Gender Diversity In Tweens With Oak Reed, Ph.D.

It’s a subject our kids are more knowledgeable and open-minded about than most of us adults are… Today we’re talking gender diversity. Gender Identity develops around the age of 2-3, if not...

Pandemic-Related Grief With Jesse Dice, LCSW

Pandemic-related grief, we’re all experiencing it in our own way. Today, Virginia Family Therapy’s very own Jesse Dice is on the Pod to tell us all about the how and why. Why are we still grieving...

How To Talk To Your Kids About Adult Drinking

Talking to your kid about your own drinking behavior often asks you to get very vulnerable as a parent. Being vulnerable is important for us too, and that’s exactly what we do in today’s episode. We...