By M Katie Helle, CPA – Today, many young adults do not understand the power of a good savings habit. I started working as a young teen and loved getting a paycheck. To me, earning money meant freedom (SHOPPING!!). At the time, I did not realize how valuable it would ...
By Caitlin Alfonso, LMSW --- Recently, I had a student tell me: “I heard when you learn to love yourself, you lose a lot of friends in the process… because they do not love themselves and so they cannot accept you loving yourself”. Just sit with that for a second. ...
By Brett Andersen, PsyD, SSP, ABSNP, NCSP --- You have many reasons for feeling overwhelmed: parents, siblings, school, homework, distance learning/in-person learning/hybrid model, extracurricular activities (or lack thereof), friends, enemies, dating, and the list goes on. You feel that the world is crumbling around you and there is no way ...
By Elizabeth Fedrick, PhD, LPC --- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself” – Coco Chanel We are constantly exposed to the societal standards of “beauty.” We are bombarded by messages from television, magazines, and social media telling us exactly how we should dress, how our hair, makeup, ...
By Kristen Donia --- What do you feel when you see someone who is a different size than you? Be it bigger, smaller, shorter, taller, what do you feel? Does pity come up? Does envy knock at the door? Are you immediately critical of the lifestyle choices of that person? ...