Posts tagged parents
TGIF | Navigating the Pleasure-Pain Paradigm: Protecting Our Children in the Digital Age

In this week’s TGIF, Kerry revisits the hard, sometimes uncomfortable, often scary - but crucially important topic of social media, technology and children. Explore resources, research and tools for navigating social media and tech with your kiddos.

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(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.

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How to NOT Traumatize

It feels like the pandemic finally woke the world up to the fact that trauma is not a dirty, shameful kept secret but actually ubiquitous in the human experience.

We’ve all been traumatized. Big events and chronic behaviors inflicted on us cause trauma… but I want to clarify a bit more about how trauma actually gets cemented in our systems and what we can do about it.

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Cultivating Softies: On Men, Shrill and Botany

In this week’s TGIF newsletter, Kerry discusses how we all have trauma that is valid of exploring and understanding, how we need to eliminate phrases like “man up” and “be a man” and encourage vulnerability, and her most favorite recent book that is changing her viewpoint on all things.

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How to (and not to) Speak to a Pregnant Woman

There are supportive ways to speak to a pregnant woman, and then there are unwelcome, unnecessary and seemingly harmless ways that invalidate someone’s individual experience. Read this article, be mindful and check yourself before you unintentionally make someone feel worse than they already may.

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