Why Your Helping Isn’t Helpful and What To Do About It
Cindy Picht Cindy Picht

Why Your Helping Isn’t Helpful and What To Do About It

Sometimes we help our loved ones so much they don’t have to help themselves. Sometimes we want them feeling better more than they want to be better. When this happens, our help isn’t helping. Additionally, we are hurting ourselves.

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How Parents Can Help Regulate Their Child’s Emotions
Cindy Picht Cindy Picht

How Parents Can Help Regulate Their Child’s Emotions

We often assume our children deliberately choose to behave or misbehave. We don’t recognize that many of our children’s behavior is their body’s reaction to stress. A good amount of a child’s behavior emerges from unintentional, subconscious, and automatic responses to stress.

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False Guilt Holds Us Back from Healthy Relationships
Cindy Picht Cindy Picht

False Guilt Holds Us Back from Healthy Relationships

There’s a difference between true and false guilt. Often, we don’t recognize the difference. When we don’t recognize false guilt, we treat it like it’s true. We believe we have done harm and we beat ourselves up. We put extra pressure on ourselves. We aren’t always sure what to do and how to fix it.

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