Checking once a week because your child’s teacher recommends it is just staying informed. It’s not the checking itself, it’s the frequency, the why behind it, and what it’s doing to your mental health. If you’re struggling to control your ability to check, here are some questions to ask before you do it again. ...
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Joanna Hardis
About the author
Joanna Hardis, LISW, is a cognitive behavioral therapist and Gestalt-certified coach. A mother of three, she combines her personal parenting with her 20+ years of professional experience. She breaks down the evidence-based research into down-to-earth guidance and support.
Her specialties are treating adults and children who have anxiety disorders or obsessive compulsive spectrum disorders, are going through life transitions (like life after divorce), or who would like help with their parenting skills.
She also offers coaching services for those who want help reaching their goals. Coaching generates change by creating awareness and then offering a different way of being and doing.
Joanna lives in Cleveland Heights with her three children and their, dog Giggsy.
Learn more about Joanna at joannahardis.com
Follow Giggsy on Instagram: @giggsy.annyong.the.dog
Joanna Hardis Posts
As parents, we want to prepare our children to tolerate uncertainty and learn how to ride out our feelings. We want to teach, model and practice staying in the “what-is” versus the “what-if.” Currently, that means not going into every possible catastrophic situation that could happen, but sticking with what is true in this moment. ...
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