On this weeks episode of Get Yourself Together: So, your kids are hitting that time in their life where you need to give them “The Talk.” What do you do? Well hopefully you’ve discussed it plenty before. We have social worker and host of the…
Author: Jessie Shepherd, LCMHC
Jessie Shepherd is a Mental Health Counselor and owner of Blue Clover Therapy in Utah. She has a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of Utah. Her focus is treating trauma, eating disorders and adjustment issues in adults, adolescents, children and their families. She utilizes Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Play Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
The phenomenon of the forgotten spouse after parenthood.
When my children were born, I forgot I had a husband. I simply lumped him into ‘the family’ and stopped noticing that I was also in a relationship. It is embarrassing to think how long I felt this way and did not realize it. So…
Foolproof ways to avoid road trip hell (from someone who has made all the mistakes).
Some people love road trips- those people generally don’t have kids. Why you ask? Because road trips are essentially a mobility restricting patience marathon, where the people in the car have no concept of time. Spring break is around the corner, which is one of…
Stop holding grudges.
We have all been there- we feel we have been wronged and we simply can’t get over it. The problem with grudges is that they impact our daily lives. We change the things we do, we see the world more negatively, and may even have…