by Dana Basu, PsyD | Feb 13, 2021 | Childhood Mental Health, Coping, Development, Feelings
How to Teach Your Kids About Emotions At any given moment, can you identify what you’re feeling? And not just “bad,” “ugh,” or “like crap,” but I mean really put a word to your emotional state? Words like “guilty,” or “lonely” or “vulnerable,” or even...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jan 23, 2021 | Anger, Anxiety, Coping, Depression, Emotional Regulation, Parent Mental Health, Resilience, Thoughts
How to Get Unstuck Using The Power of Thought Ever had one of those days? Or weeks… or maybe even years? One of those periods of time when everything feels hard as hell. When it feels like the walls are closing in on you and there’s no way out. Most of us have been...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Dec 28, 2020 | Coping, Parent Mental Health
2020, man. If nothing else, this is the year that we have learned just how essential self-care is to our sanity. And, for most of us, we’ve learned it by default… by taking away those habits and seeing what kind of chaos happens as a result. Sounds like a risky...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Sep 30, 2020 | Anger, Childhood Mental Health, Coping
Think back to the last time you lost your sh*t. Was it with your partner? Your sibling? Your coworker? Your kid? Pull this memory up into your mind, as vividly as you can now. Remember the adrenaline coursing through your body. The thoughts spinning around in your...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Sep 5, 2020 | Anger, Childhood Mental Health, Coping
Many parents struggle when confronted with their children’s feelings, but no issue seems to be so universally confounding as their children’s anger. It’s no wonder, given the high stakes of uncontrolled anger (i.e. aggression), which can lead to suspensions and...
by Dana Basu, PsyD | Jul 29, 2020 | Coping, Parent Mental Health
How to Find a Therapist So, you’ve made the empowered decision to find a therapist (woo hoo!), but now what? Once you make the decision to go see someone, the next big step is to try to figure out who you are going to go see. So, how, exactly, do you find a therapist?...
