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The Anxiety of Parenting

October 20, 2016/in anxiety, children, family stress, fathers mental health, happiness, managing stress, motherhood, parenting, relationships, self-awareness, self-care, self-growth, uncategorized/by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

Look around you, do you see us? We’re not hard to notice. We are the current crop of modern day parents doing our best to care for our children while tending to the sometimes overflowing spring of anxiety stirring beneath the surface. (Full disclosure here…as a working mom of two school-aged children, I count myself as one of them.)

For some parents the anxiety seeps out of their pores and is tangible in their aura, for others it’s a little better concealed but nonetheless just as potent and jarring. (Personally … Read More

A Must for Back to School – Increasing our Children’s Emotional IQ

October 18, 2015/in conflict, coping with feelings, emotional freedom, emotional IQ, family stress, friendship, managing stress, mental health, relationships, self-awareness/by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

As we’ve all been busy prepping our kids for going back to school, buying book bags, notebooks and the like, we must not forget the most important preparation of all which doesn’t cost us a dime yet is priceless – teaching our children emotional awareness of and sensitivity towards their feelings and the feelings of others – or increasing their emotional IQ for short.

Educating our children about the range of feelings they can feel, teaching them how to name feelings they or others are having … Read More

SELF-CARE, Important Considerations and What You Can Do Now to Make a CHANGE!

August 6, 2015/in emotional freedom, managing stress, mental health, psychotherapy, relationships, self-awareness, self-care, self-growth, stress/by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

Everybody does it to some extent, yet a vast majority of people continue to struggle with it. And when you’re doing well with it, you may find yourself buoyant, glowing and more satisfied. Yet when it is lacking you may feel ragged, edgy or dour.

The it we are referring to here is that softly spoken and yet seemingly under-valued practice of SELF-CARE and so we decided to devote our summer newsletter to exploring SELF-CARE, why it can seem so elusive and suggest steps … Read More

Reclaiming Psychological and Emotional Freedom

July 27, 2015/in anger, anxiety, conflict, depression, emotional freedom, family stress, grief, guilt, managing stress, mental health, psychotherapy, relationships, self-awareness, self-growth, stress/by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

Even though we live in a “free” country I question how truly free many of us experience ourselves to be. Being a therapist, I spend many hours of my days sitting and listening to different people who don’t exactly feel so free in life.

I hear people express how they feel trapped by debt, financial worries, social pressure and social stigma. They feel hindered by anxiety, fear, anger and depression, and imprisoned in dysfunctional or abusive relationships or personal disillusionment. Everyone it seems is dealing with … Read More

Fatherhood…Consider This:

June 6, 2015/in family stress, fathers mental health, managing stress, mental health, public discourse, relationships, social isolation, stress/by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

by Veronica Vaiti, LCSW-R

FATHERHOOD… How do you think about it? What value do you place on the role fathers and father figures play in children’s lives? What do you know about what it means to be a father in today’s society and the struggles, stresses in addition to the joys that fathers experience?

When the first official “Fathers Day” celebration of record was held on June 19, 1910, the roles of mother and father were much more traditional and straightforward then they are now. Family compositions are more varied … Read More

The Anxiety of Parenting

A Must for Back to School – Increasing our Children’s Emotional IQ

SELF-CARE, Important Considerations and What You Can Do Now to Make a CHANGE!

Reclaiming Psychological and Emotional Freedom

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