TGIF: How to Handle Back-to-School Anxiety

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS as she answers a reader’s question about supporting their child with back-to-school anxiety.

TGIF, Parenting, Anxiety, Adolescents, Coping SkillsKerry BiskelonisSeptember 8, 2023anxiety, back to school, resilience, advice, motivated, focus, big feelings, temper tantrum, struggling, tools, parent, parenting, connection, movement, breathing

TGIF: Navigating Rejection

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, INNOVATION, GRATITUDE and FEELS as she answers one of our reader’s questions about how to navigate a relationship when your teenager (or anyone) is making you feel shut out and rejected.

Adolescents, TGIF, Parenting, Relationships, AnxietyKerry BiskelonisJuly 28, 2023attachment, attachment theory, attachment styles, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, teenagers, teens, trigger, fight, freeze, flee, fawn, people please

How to Build Resilience Through a Holistic Mental Health Lens

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS as she reflects on her family’s latest cultivation of resilience, based on a holistic approach of: less technology, more self and co-regulation, connection, boundaries and living into values.

TGIF, Parents, Mindfulness, Adolescents, MeditationKerry BiskelonisMarch 31, 2023Reset Brain and Bodyresilience, self-care, boundaries, technology, connection, meditation, co-regulation, regulation, health, holistic health, values

(The Real) Modern Mindful Parenting

Modern mindful parenting is not about being perfect, never yelling, or being with your kids 24/7. Modern mindful parenting is also not about having the perfect kid. In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares a different acronym: PACS. Presence. Awareness. Calm. Security. And how it applies to mindful parenting.

What Are We Doing Wrong?

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry share TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS in regards to why it feels like everyone is struggling right now. Both children and adults are struck with more fear than ever before. Explore Kerry’s thoughts and the resources she shares.

Anxiety, Adolescents, COVID-19, Parents, Stress, TGIFKerry BiskelonisApril 22, 2022Reset Brain and Bodyparenting, anxiety, covid-19, children, fear, anxious, discomfort, resilience, mental health

Who’s Side is My Kid’s Therapist On?

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS about the sometimes complicated, but necessary ways therapists work with their adolescent clients and their caregivers.

TGIF, Relationships, Parents, Adolescents, Counseling 101Kerry BiskelonisMarch 11, 2022Reset Brain and Body

How to Be a Good Person

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry shares TOOLS, GRATITUDE, INNOVATION and FEELS on how we raise the generation of good humans, even in a world that is tired and messy. We do it authentically. And we do it together.

TGIF, Parents, AdolescentsKerry BiskelonisJanuary 21, 2022Reset Brain and Bodyconnection, community, authenticity, self-care, wellness, love, identity, tools, gratitude, happiness, happy, self-improvement, self-connection

Rising to the Challenges of these Times

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry covers Tools, Gratitude, Innovation and Feels around finding the fine balance between self-care and discipline when it comes to our own and our children’s resilience while living in such a complex world.

TGIF, COVID-19, Adolescents, Grief and LossKerry BiskelonisDecember 17, 2021resilience, discomfort, boundaries