Disclaimer: This article mentions normal life anxiety and is not referring to clinical anxiety disorders. The information is not intended to treat any mental health conditions, and is just a summary of my knowledge of herbs that can help calm the regular stressors and anxieties of life. I don’t think it will come as a surprise to any of you that the world can be a stressful place. Between unhealed family dynamics, parenting stress (IYKYK), relationship complexities of all kin

My journey to the metaphysical was a transformative one to say the least. I've personally experienced many dark night of the soul type transformations. But this specific journey which began 4 and 1/2 years ago was one of the most powerful and completely life-changing. This likely had something to do with the impetus to this transformation, a severe concussion that my oldest daughter sustained. I had to sit by and watch her dark night of the soul at the age of 9 and it was agn

I have, many times in the past, told others that I have not one artistic bone in my body. At that time, I had a very black and white mindset about what an artist was. I knew that my drawings did not look like real life, and that was all I was going off of. In fact, I would always introduce my oldest daughter as the artist in the family. Even during my formal training I opted to get a Bachelor's of Science in Psychology because a Bachelor's of Art seemed too fluffy at the time

I have quite literally given and interpreted a thousand intelligence tests since 2006. The test I tend to administer the most is the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC-V) and the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition (WAIS-IV). These are well rounded intelligence tests and I am able to look at not only areas (indexes) of general ability but also cognitive processing. What does the General Ability Index include? On the adult test there ar

When people envision a child with ADHD they tend to think of a child who can’t sit still, blurts out answers, and tends to act without thinking. When the symptom criteria for ADHD was created, it is almost guaranteed that it was written by men, for men (boys). As it turns out, females also have ADHD, it just looks quite a bit different. Here is a quick cheat sheet for what a female with ADHD might look like, or have a history of. Of course, every individual’s presentation loo

Web Resources: Gut Bacteria Might Guide The Workings Of Our Minds (info on the gut-brain connection) Study: Diet May Help ADHD Kids More Than Drugs (the impact of food sensitivities on ADHD) Parents report gluten-, casein-free diet helps some kids with autism (the impact of food sensitivities in autism) All About Autism (great website, check out the sample menus for dietary considerations) The Biggest Medical Discovery of Our Lifetimes: Finding the Cure for Chronic Disease

When I started my career as a school psychologist I was working with students ranging from elementary to high school, often struggling...