Posts tagged trigger
TGIF: Navigating Rejection
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.

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Adolescents, TGIF, Parenting, Relationships, AnxietyKerry Biskelonisattachment, attachment theory, attachment styles, anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, teenagers, teens, trigger, fight, freeze, flee, fawn, people please
(The Real) Modern Mindful Parenting
(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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Adolescents, Parenting, MindfulnessKerry BiskelonisReset Brain and Bodystress, presence, calm, security, awareness, emotional availability, emotions, parenting, parents, mindful, mindfulness, emotional intelligence, busy, tools, strategies, trigger, co-regulation, coregulation
The Trouble with Family Vacations: On FOOA and The Roles We Play
The Trouble with Family Vacations: On FOOA and The Roles We Play

In this week’s TGIF newsletter, Kerry discusses the possibly familiar phenomena of “Family of Origin Amnesia”. The idea that we forget our family of origin dynamics as time goes on and as we’ve created space. What roles do you play in certain dynamics? And how can you maintain your boundaries and space around your healed, and healing, self?

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TGIF, Parents, Trauma, Relationships, Coping Skills, AnxietyKerry Biskelonisfamily, family vacation, parent, childhood, coping mechanism, summer, self-care, tools, reset, roles, trigger