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Samuel Young 12/29/23 Samuel Young 12/29/23

How To Make This New Year Your Child’s Best Ever!

Real life can be really hard and raising a neurodivergent child certainly presents no shortage of challenges.

While our minds can often shift to the negative, it's important that we make a conscious effort to look for the positive. This doesn't always come easy and might take real work for you to get the hang of it, but it's worth it!

Just as you would want with your kids, our goal as adults is to aim to be strength-based and talent-focused as possible.

As we pivot into the New Year, this is an important time…

Amber K Willburn 12/11/23 Amber K Willburn 12/11/23

When All the Pieces Fall

Once upon a September… I went through an intense depressive lull. For those of you who have depression or love someone who does, you know that it can be cyclical or seasonal.

Depression can look like a thousand things. My depression looked like a dark tide creeping in.

Once my depression hit, I felt like I was underwater. This was not a tide – it was a tsunami, and I could not catch my breath.

But depressive lulls, like tides, have an ebb and a flow.

The thing we can’t see in the middle of depression is that so many of the things we thought were broken or irreparably harmed are just...

Amber K Willburn 6/20/23 Amber K Willburn 6/20/23

Kids Who Shine – Helping Children Avoid Burnout: Part 2

Every year, businesses spend millions of dollars trying to apply the best practices and newest research into employee productivity, far more than education dollars spent on children and burnout.

There is so much research out there on the things adults can do to avoid burnout in their professional lives. We are applying some of that hard-earned research to help our children thrive.

Each of the steps on the Path to Shine includes strategies to help your child build resilience and avoid burnout. This week, we’ll cover the last four steps….

Samuel Young 11/18/22 Samuel Young 11/18/22

Thankfulness = More Happiness ⬆️

Societal pressures often have us focusing on what we don’t have… Whether it be social media, advertisements, catching up around the watering hole, keeping up with the Joneses, etc.

Focusing on what we don’t have naturally causes us to feel down and out.

Did you know one of the best ways to combat this?

Regularly inventorying your thankfulness/gratitude can lead to more happiness and confidence!

Want to give it a try? 😄

Go ahead! Grab a piece of paper/open a doc and write down one/all of the following:

Samuel Young 11/22/21 Samuel Young 11/22/21

Thankfulness + Reflection= More Happiness

In The Spirit of Thanksgiving

“Energy flows where the mind goes” -Unknown

Society often has us focusing on what we don’t have… This naturally causes us to feel down and out. Subsequently, we become more susceptible to consumer behavior to fill the void. We look externally for our answers.

Did you know one of the best ways to combat this?

Regularly inventorying your thankfulness/gratitude can lead to more happiness and confidence!

Want it give it a try? 😄

Grab a piece of paper/open a doc and write down one/all of the following:

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