Mind Matters

Building a family that supports and encourages one another takes energy and time, But worth doing! Here are simple tips for you to consider trying: 1️⃣ Be kind to one another. Kids learn through experiences and modeling. Show acts of kindness in everyday life like opening the door for someone, putting away dishes without being asked or by hugging mom or dad when he or she gets home from work. 2️⃣ Eat dinner together. Mealtime is an excellent place to share your day with your family. The dinner table should be a time where open communication takes place. Congratulate each other on accomplishments and encourage those who had a bad day. Kids who regularly eat meals with their families have higher academic scores and reduced use of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use. 3️⃣ Experience life together. Do things as a family. Go for a hike, bike ride, or attend a concert. Kids who participate in activities with their families have a higher sense of belonging and higher self-esteem. 4️⃣ Enjoy a family...

Morning Affirmations To Start Your Day Our thoughts play a big and important role in our overall success and happiness, it’s important to find ways to improve our mindset. Affirmations are a powerful way to improve your mindset on a daily basis and research have shown that they can increase our feelings of As Dr. David Schechter, author of Think Away Your Pain and The Mindbody Workbook explains: “Just as we do daily physical exercise to get stronger, affirmations can be thoughts of as exercise for our mind/brain.”   Positive self-talk is a research-backed method of rising to the upper echelons of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: self-esteem and self-actualization. Social scientist Claude Steele was the first to propose the theory of self-affirmation, where if people can feel relatively positive about themselves in one arena, they can better tolerate a threat to their self-integrity in another. More recently, MRI evidence suggests neural pathways are increased when people pr...