by Dr Aletta | Jan 26, 2012 | Anxiety, Family Matters
Editor’s Note: This article was written by our friend Dylan Broggio, LCSW. Finding out that someone you love is cutting themselves is very painful, shocking, information to hear. Being armed with information and a game plan can make all the difference in getting...
by Dr Aletta | Nov 19, 2009 | Mental Health, Relationships, Self-Esteem
Great name, right? Project Happily Ever After, a website/blog run by Alisa Bowman, a professional writer, was brought to my attention by a reader of this blog. Alisa's readers love her blog about her marriage and life with her family because it's fresh and...
by Dr Aletta | Sep 8, 2009 | Family Matters, Mental Health
On Saturday I was standing in line with my son at Office Depot with about three hundred other parents. We were there with kids of varying heights doing last minute school supply shopping (It never ends!). In the middle of the main aisle, right in front of the check...
by Dr Aletta | Aug 26, 2009 | Family Matters, Mental Health
Guilt hurts so many so much. In my work I often see guilt experienced as a punishment without hope of redemption. When a patient is having a hard time dealing with guilt, I ask them to replace the word ‘guilt’ with the word ‘responsible.’...
by Dr Aletta | Aug 18, 2009 | Family Matters, Relationships
The fastest growing segment of people on Facebook (FB) are those over thirty-five years old. A lot of them are parents. It won’t be long before some very clever hacker will produce Facebook G2: ‘Where your mom can’t find you.’ Why? Because even in the Internet-cell...