by Gina Nelson | Sep 14, 2020 | Anxiety
Learned helplessness was initially identified by Martin Seligman and Steven Maier in the late 60’s after conducting research on animal behavior that involved delivering electric shocks to dogs. Dogs who learned that they couldn’t escape the shock stopped trying to...
by Gina Nelson | Sep 7, 2020 | Codependence
It’s an endless cycle of “I’m never gonna do that again” and “If something doesn’t change, I’m out of here.” I know it all too well. As an adult child of an alcoholic mother, I spent years trying to learn to set boundaries and appropriately emotionally detach from...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 31, 2020 | Anxiety
Schools are starting back up and the online learning scene via virtual zoom platforms has increased the stress level for both parents and teachers. I’ve seen working parents struggle to find assistance in teaching their kiddos, and the options for daycare and...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 24, 2020 | Empathy
Empathy is one of those words that often gets confused with sympathy. Empathy is a term we use for the ability to understand other people’s feelings as if we were having them ourselves. Sympathy refers to the ability to take part in someone else’s feelings, mostly by...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 17, 2020 | Creativity
We all can think back to messages received from either teachers, parents, or friends when we tried our best to put a pencil or pen to paper and get our creative juices flowing. I remember being in 3rd grade and having the ability to copy a very detailed picture of...
