Being connected to those around us improves the physical and mental health of both us parents and our kids. But many parents lack this sense of community or feel like they have to work incredibly hard to develop one. This is especially true for folks who move around a lot, like families of US Foreign […]

Happy Holidays! You all, most of you know that I sort of stumbled into Virginia Family Therapy because I wanted to help families through the pandemic. Children and parents were devastated and looking for support while, at the same time, my clinician friends were looking for more flexible, collaborative ways to help. What originally brought […]

Let’s stick with the topic of relationships for a little longer! Today, Caroline and Sarah are joining me to talk about the value of developing intergenerational relationships: the relationships we develop with folks who are of different ages than us. In our culture, it’s not always encouraged but we promise there’s so much to gain […]

We’ve been talking a lot about community on the Active & Connected Families podcast recently. How getting connected to our community can help us through trauma, that working mothers are struggling with burnout because we have less people to rely on and how social psychology researchers are highlighting the relationship between our individualistic Western culture […]

There is a mental health crisis among kids and teens that was only accelerated by the pandemic. In fact, in the United States, emergency room visits for suicide attempts by adolescent girls in early 2021 rose 51% compared to the same period in 2019. In this pod, we will be covering the signs of suicidal thinking […]