New Year Aspirations: here's a couple from me One: We're moving to Texas. The literal one. In my area of Indiana, we use 'moving to Texas' as a euphemism for moving…thriveglobal.com New Year Aspirations: Ready to Move How an Indiana Girl on Many Indiana Nights Relocates to Texas

Some Ideas for Motivating Staff...and Working to Avoid the Dreaded De-Motivators This is an article about a combination of my experiences supervising staff, utilizing a strength based approach, and some clinical examples of success stores in supervision and being supervised. Let’s start with a little history: I began supervising staff soon after my 28th birthday, 11 months after giving birth to twin boys.

Going to Europe in 1990-part 1 — My original title was a little misleading. It really was not behind the Iron Curtain. I went to France, and the church that sent me was the Christian Church in which I had been brought up. I grew up attending West St. Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). The governing body…

or: how I was a clown for 3 years in a row — My favorite Halloween costume, without a doubt, was the Clown costume my mom sewed for my sister. It was very loose fitting, so you could fit your whole outfit on underneath it. No matter how cold or warm it was (which can be pretty cold or hot in Indiana), I…

And how that community athletic and academic success helped me with Gender Equality Here I am….talking about gender equality again. It’s a fun topic and something we are making so much progress with. For those who don’t know me, I am a forty-something year old woman who was raised in a community that has few people, with a class of about 150 students…

How those intense feelings can get in the way — A new diagnosis, which has recently been named Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Syndrome, or DDRS was added to the DSM V when it was released in 2013. This diagnosis is a collection of symptoms that previously had not been captured under other diagnoses. Below are some examples to help explain regulation…

I write and talk about trauma a lot. This writing gives a brief overview of trauma and how it relates to memory. There are 2 sides of the brain, the left side and the right side. The two are connected by a ‘carrier’, which is known as the corpus callosum. …

Some Fun Tips for the Attention-ally Challenged — Hi! Ever wonder why you have to repeat yourself so many times to your child? Ever said ‘I told you to do that 5 times and still, here you sit’ Ever been disappointed in yourself for wanting to be productive, but doing something else instead? Since I’m a therapist who has worked worked with kids and adults who could or do have some sort of a diagnosis regarding their attention, I have some thoughts about it.

This is a story that has happened in many places. It is the story of a suburb. A primarily white collar, somewhat wealthy community. It is the story of what can happen, when a child takes a gun to school. …