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Pregnancy & Pain During Sex
Pregnancy can cause many changes in your life, including your sexual activities. You may notice that you desire sex more frequently or that you have little interest in this pastime. While your increasing level of certain hormones may make you want to sleep more, your changing body shape can cause discomfort during sex. Knowing what is normal during pregnancy, as well as understanding the difference between painful sex and sexual discomfort, can help you know what to expect and when to call your doctor.
Eating Disorders – What To Look For and How To Help Your Child
Through my own struggle with an eating disorder for nearly a decade, and now my expertise in working with patients suffering from eating disorders, I can’t stress enough the important role families and caregivers play during the discovery, treatment and recovery of eating disorders. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. […]
Talking to Your Teen with Autism
Before beginning a new teen club, we had to have an intake before the first session. The intake involved an intake specialist, my child, and myself and my husband. We had to sign off on some of the rules for the club and discuss expected behaviors and participation. What is this teen club? This teen […]
Helicopter Parents – And Their Longterm Consequences
It’s bad enough being a kid with helicopter parents. They can hover over your childhood and adolescence, warping the normal process of growing up, and inflicting enough damage for decades of therapy. In October 2015, the website Reddit asked readers what was the “worst or most embarrassing” thing their parents had put them through. The […]
How Can We Talk To Our Kids About The Massacres In Paris On Friday?
As we all know, and most of our children know, 132 people were brutally murdered in Paris on Friday night, allegedly by ISIS terrorists. Everyone shot was an innocent bystander, unconnected to ISIS or the ongoing unrest in Syria and other parts of the Mid East. They were killed attending a restaurant, a nightclub, and […]