REACTIVE PARENTING: The Link Between Your Nervous System and Your Brain is Key to Reducing Triggers
When we pass a certain threshold of stress our nervous system sends a message to our downstairs brain to take over. 3 steps to practice...
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Tara Powers-Hausmann
- Mar 10, 2022
- 3 min
HOT TOPIC: ASSESSING COLLEGE READINESS
As part of Raising Resilience's focus on mindful parenting, Raising Resilience board member, Tara Powers-Hausmann of College Fit...
April Avey Trabucco
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
Adjusting Expectations Can Increase Happiness
As COVID derails us yet again, a common frustration among parents is the lack of ability to plan. Each time we’re forced to change course...
April Avey Trabucco
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
Keep Calm and Carry On (but communicate first)
Two common themes running through Raising Resilience sessions are Calm is Contagious and Communication is Key. These directives sound...
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
How to use Mirror Neurons to achieve Emotional Regulation
Emotional Regulation highlights from Raising Resilience's CONNECTIONS CAFÉ session on Executive Functioning Skills with The Guidance Team.
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
How to Identify and Manage Re-Entry Anxiety
The pending return to school is an exciting change for some and a daunting one for others. Some have established routines that are...
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
7 Ways to Practice Resilience With Your Family
During this prolonged period of uncertainty our youth need us to practice and model resilience more than ever. How do we do that when...
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
What Resilience Looks Like and How to Build It
Re.sil.ience: noun 1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. The American Psychological Association (APA)...
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 4 min
We Are Raising Resilience Together
We raise resilience year by year, and kid by kid, and it really does take a village
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 5 min
Validating Your Child's Need For Independence
...the independence teens have been working to attain as part of their natural development has been ripped away from them and they are itchi
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 5 min
Building Resilience Through Crisis
...alongside all the terribleness happening right now is an opportunity to build up our capacity to weather other disruptions in the future.
April Avey Trabucco
- Sep 17, 2021
- 3 min
How Do We Build Resilience?
Parents have a physiological response to letting kids take more control of their lives, but it's a necessary part of their development a
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