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Amanda Marshall

@JourneyToWholeness

Joined Mar 2022

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Therapist 🗣 Adoptive Mom 👩‍👦 Book Nerd 📚 World Traveler 🛫 I love helping others achieve ...View more

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@MotivationForSuccess

The Role of Self-Parenting in Healing Trauma

Like so many others, my brother and I went through a lot as kids. When I was five my father suffered a severe head injury and emigrated to the US shortly after. This was incredibly traumatic for my mother who was forced to raise two rambunctious boys singlehandedly.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Relaxation Tools to Improve Your Mental and Physical Health

We all encounter stress, whether it comes from work, relationships, communities, or a global health crisis. Some degree of stress is normal—it can drive us to inspire productivity and creativity. However, too much can overwhelm us and lead to poor physical and mental health.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Tips for Overcoming Parental Guilt

Whether you’re a mom, dad, or other caregiver, chances are you’ve dealt with the weight of feeling guilty. Studies have shown a dramatic increase in parental guilt over the past few years, due in part to the impact of Covid and a shortage of quality childcare.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Tips from the Trenches: Advocating For Your Child with Special Needs at School

When it comes to navigating the complex system of IEPs, accommodations, and supports for a child with special needs, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. The reality is that many parents feel they are fighting a never-ending battle to get their child the services they need.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Supporting Your Child with Special Needs: Understanding IDEA

If you have a child with special needs you need to know about IDEA. In 2004 congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to ensure all children with disabilities receive a free, appropriate public education that meets their unique needs.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Tips to Transform Your Thinking: Using CBT to Challenge Negative Thoughts

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has been proven very effective at relieving depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and even substance abuse. The trick is to transform your thinking. CBT starts with identifying negative thought patterns.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Thinking Patterns That Bring You Down

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has become a standard for helping alleviate depression, anxiety, substance use, anger, and eating disorders. It is rooted in research that shows our thoughts can determine our emotions and teaches us to change negative thought patterns.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Managing Your Moods with CBT

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (or CBT) can be a wonderful tool for managing anxiety, depression, substance use, eating disorders, and anger. It is based on the idea that our feelings are determined by our thoughts and actions, and focuses on challenging negative thoughts.

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@TomButlerBowdon

What's been the biggest revolution in treating depression?

Rates of depression differ around the developed world, but the incidence of depressive illness has risen dramatically since 1900.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Discovering Compassion for Yourself

Often the way we respond to our own pain, suffering, and mistakes is very different from the way we would respond to a close friend or family member. Instead of being supportive, we can be highly critical of ourselves. The Self-Compassion Break can help alleviate this.

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@WorkingOnWellness

What this ex-convict can teach you about the power of self-worth…

On New Year's Day 2015, Craig Stanland sat in the library of a federal prison and pictured how he’d end his life: by putting a bullet in his own head. The vision seemed so clear that he could practically taste the cold steel of the pistol…

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@WorkingOnWellness

How to communicate with your child in a way that works

Building a shared sense of cooperation and respect starts with one endeavor: learning to be open and flexible.

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@PodcastPro

Top 10 Most Listened Episodes of "Stuff You Should Know" podcast

10. The Dark Origin of Fairytales: Fairy tales are for kids right? Well not at first they weren't. They were dark tales of murder, rape, incest, cannibalism and mayhem geared toward adults. What changed? Chuck and Josh will drop that knowledge and more in this episode. 11/3/2015

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@Piyush

9 Netflix Movies Students Should Watch to Get Inspired

Becoming Join former first lady Michelle Obama in an intimate documentary looking at her life, Michelle Obama tells her story and encourages us to do the same. The documentary shows the events that made her a strong woman!

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@JourneyToWholeness

How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Relationships

Recently mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword. It has been introduced in everything from therapy to elementary schools as a way to promote wellbeing, increase distress tolerance, and improve self-regulation. However, mindfulness can also help improve our relationships.

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@JourneyToWholeness

Using Mindfulness to Improve Your Life

Mindfulness is one of the best tools to help improve your well-being. It has been proven to lower anxiety and depression, increase focus and memory, and improve emotional control, flexible thinking, and relational satisfaction. It has even been shown to improve physical health.

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@noorniamat

John Gottman’s emotion coaching for children

Dr. John Gottman, famous relationship researcher, studied parenting styles for decades. His process of “emotion coaching” helps develop the child’s nervous system properly, helping them connect with parents and build emotional awareness, confidence, and resilience over time.

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Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)

In 1995 a CDC & Kaiser study of 17,000+ adults showed that the negative things people experienced as children held lifelong implications. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) were linked to decreased physical & mental health, negative behavioral outcomes, and premature death.

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A Mother’s Gift: The Power of Healthy Attachment

When asked what gift they treasure from their mother, some may describe life lessons, meaningful objects, family traditions, or even physical characteristics. But the first and most important gift from our mothers is our attachment style.

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7 Things Your Child's Therapist Wishes They Could Tell You About Your Divorce

In the US 44% of all marriages end in divorce according to a study in 2019, and statistics show that one in two children will have divorced parents. Studies show that children of divorce are more likely to experience problems with academics, behavior, and mental health.

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8 Tips for Helping Kids When the News is Scary

Over the past few weeks headlines have been filled with violence and trauma. All of this can lead to feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and depressed. Managing this as a child can be even more complex. These tips will help you support the children in your life as they process trauma.

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Feeling Out-of-Sync? Sensory Processing Disorder Might Be to Blame

Look around a classroom and you’re bound to notice children who are struggling—they may crash into others, flop on the ground, fidget, or yell. For years adults looked at these behaviors and assumed they were just misbehaving. But the reality is more complex.

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How to Implement a Sensory Diet: Hold the Lettuce, Add the Trampoline

Diets usually conjure up images of unpleasant experiences high on vegetables and low on dessert. However, a sensory diet is a completely different type of diet that has nothing to do with food and everything to do with helping you feel happy and in-sync.

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