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Emotionally Supporting Our Children During The Pandemic

Emotionally Supporting Our Children During The Pandemic

I think we can all agree that in order to be a better version of ourselves, we need to know how to navigate the world of emotions gifted to us.

In other words, to become the best version of ourselves we need a sense of emotional safety and that is exactly what Dr. Michelle Natinsky and I dug deeper into this week on The Stress Less Show.

For parents, this looks like creating an emotional foundation for our children so that they…

Setting Standards vs Expectations

Setting Standards vs Expectations

There was a concept brought forward this week on the Stress Less Show that is absolutely life changing: standards versus expectations.


All of us ask the people in our lives for x, y & z. Favors. Requests. Once we’ve made these requests, we have these secret expectations that we hold of them. Maybe we don’t even always realize it, but once we ask someone to do something, in our minds, we have some specific…