Post-pandemic teens need parent support to help teens make friends

Journaling for Kids – Featured on Care.com
Verbalizing is helpful, but the next best step is to physically express and emote ideas, visuals, and interpretations. This is how somatic therapy, play therapy, music therapy, and art therapy have become field norms in counseling. Healing needs and depths of healing are unique. Talk therapy has limitations.

Bounce Back after Break-up (July 2023 Glam Article)
There are relationships where it may make the most sense to chunk the deuce, peace out, swan song, mic drop, sayonara…you get it. For those of you who have had to heal from pain at the end of any relationship, here are 5 ways to bounce back after a breakup.
My Little Library
If you have struggled with self-esteem, identity, purpose, or perceived yourself through a negative lens, consider counseling with a faith-based professional. Bringing these core identity concerns into psychotherapy with an attentive, compassionate, and insightful professional may help assist you in transforming what counselors call Automatic Negative Thoughts.

2023 – One More Year
Cue the confetti. Grab the party horn. Don a festive hat. The time to congratulate, celebrate, and consider JJC’s third summer of service is NOW! Whoop WhoopIf you have followed JJC for any amount of time, you are familiar with Founder, Jennifer Lytle’s personal emphases on specific moments of reflection and rejoicing. This year is …

That Time When My Therapist Was Late
It’s ideal for both client and counselor to help one another adhere to timing . . . and if your counselor is ever late, allow them a good faith effort to address and correct the issue. Otherwise, you’ve simply averted confrontation. That might be the very reason you are in counseling at all. What better time to practice than when your therapist is late?

Kindness Counts: Loving Big in February
The month of February is way more than a commercialized scheme for excess consumerism. Celebrate big with family fun! Want ideas? Read on!

Fog of Indecision
When making a decision is so hard to do . . .

Bootiful Season
The fall season stirs up creative critters and #theartofhomemaking makes a debut. Expect conservative considerations of modern homemaking married to the psychology of space in this podcast. Find it on Spotify.
Snail Face
Beauty in the form of a pill, packet, or snail face lotion might be fun to laugh about unless you think you are on candid camera.