Self-esteem is so important and yet not really understood by most of us. Brett and I are here to lay the path for you to improve your self-esteem.

If you argue about facts, then you are arguing about lies. Every persons' reality (their facts) is from their perspective. Even if that perspective is different from yours. They believe theirs over yours. Even science has come to the conclusion that there may be no objective reality!

https://interestingengineering.com/new-physics-experiment-indicates-no-objective-reality 

It is something that most of us parents have to do most days...schlep the kids to school. Of course, we love our children and mostly we do this with joy in our hearts and a song on our lips. But sometimes...sometimes things go wrong. If you have even wondered if you are a bad parent because you pulled a gun on another parent in the drop-off line... let me state that irrevocably... YES, YOU ARE.

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/hazelwood-parents-bring-gun-school/63-858a7bac-0311-4c92-8471-c2770c2c7716 

After war has ravaged a country, what is left is the indigenous population. Most of them didn't want the war and may not have even been on one side or the other, but they are left to try and pick up the pieces of their lives. The physical devastation to their environment is a major hurdle but so too is the psychological trauma. The article linked here is long but really paints the picture of the hardship and struggle that is life in the aftermath of war. 

https://www.apa.org/international/united-nations/un-matters/rathi-war.pdf

Alfred Adler was a part of Freud's inner circle along with Carl Jung until the three began to form very divergent ideas and split. Adler formed a theory of psychology based on the concepts of advantage/disadvantage and superiority/inferiority. As with all psychodynamically influenced theories, this is an example of motivational-based psychology. The concept of birth order being an important influencer of an individual's personality development also comes from Adler. 

https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/adlerian-psychology

Brett and I discuss the nature of wisdom as well as new evidence from the neuroscience of depression.

https://cathywild.com/understanding-depression-a-woe-that-is-wisdom/

https://www.psypost.org/2021/08/family-history-of-depression-associated-with-altered-brain-connectivity-during-a-social-cognition-task-61726

The title says it all. 

Systems theory is a belief that we cannot separate the individual from the system because we all influence and are influenced by the system we operate in. From family to peers to the community, the country to the world, we all operate in an ever-expanding web of systems that can impact us. 

https://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/family-systems-therapy

We may have all thought that the pandemic was over at the end of May/June. But now in August, it seems like things are worse than ever. It's hard to keep up mentally with all the vacillations. So it may be time for each of us as individuals to start thinking about what we want our own worlds to look like post-pandemic!

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-blog/2021/july/how-to-create-the-life-you-want-post-pandemic

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/11/our-post-pandemic-world-and-whats-likely-to-hang-round/

According to the DSM 5, the prevalence of ADHD in society is expected to be 3.55% reported by the National Institute of Health (NIH). But way more than 3.5 percent of the population is diagnosed with ADHD. So understanding what ADHD is and what it isn't is super important!

NIH report on ADHD

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4301194/

Resource for Parents

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/health-issues/conditions/adhd/Pages/Understanding-ADHD.aspx