by Katie Gerten | May 14, 2020 | Anxiety, Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Mental Health, Mindset, News & Events, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Toolkit
We aren’t going to sugar coat it here, uncertainty is hard. With COVID-19 and the current state of affairs, there’s an immense amount of uncertainty that we’re grappling with, too. We’re asking ourselves, “What next?” or “Where do I go from here?” The reality of today...
by Katie Gerten | May 12, 2020 | Blog, Children's Mental Health, COVID-19, Featured, Mental Health, Parenting, Trauma
It goes without question that we’re experiencing a difficult period in our nation’s history, thanks to the current pandemic. Truth be told, few would have guessed the epic implications of COVID-19 when it first surfaced in China in November of last year. Few, if any,...
by Katie Gerten | May 12, 2020 | Addiction, Blog, Children's Mental Health, Clinical Resources, Featured, Mental Health, Trauma
Aces Too High News- May 2, 2017 He says: Addiction shouldn’t be called “addiction”. It should be called “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”. He says: Ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the...
by Katie Gerten | May 11, 2020 | Blog, Children's Mental Health, Featured, Foster Care, YDI Highlights
By now, many of us have heard the statistics about kids in the Montana foster care system. The momentous problem has come well to the attention of the media, with advocates and organizations alike hitting the pavement in desperation to find solutions to help our...
by Katie Gerten | May 10, 2020 | Blog, Featured, Parenting, Quotes
Mother’s Day is a time to celebrate and embrace all that it means to be a mom. The truth is, moms work hard, and while we romanticize the role, motherhood is not always easy or pretty. One could say that to be a mom is really the hardest job out there, demanding the...
