Marilyn Wedge's Blog, page 2

Reflections on Alice Miller

Depression, anxiety, and even physical illnesses are often rooted in childhood trauma. A technique called "focusing" can release the vestiges of trauma from our body.

The Inflamed Teenage Brain

In the past few years, integrative medicine, an innovative approach to what we think of as psychiatric symptoms, has been gathering attention.

COVID and the Single Young Adult

What should young people do, facing the COVID 19-induced crisis of social isolation and the resulting loneliness?

COVID and the Teenage Brain

if parents push a teenager too far into conforming to their views, their teen may face identity confusion.

8 Tips to Calm Down Your Child’s Meltdowns

Too often meltdowns result in screaming matches between parent and child. With younger children, these sometimes lead to violence.

Is ADHD a Response to Adversity or a Mental Disorder?

Children who are impulsive may struggle in today’s educational environment which labels impulsivity as a “disorder.” But it might have had advantages in a previous environment.

An Unusual Twist to Exposure Therapy

Milton Erickson not only did exposure therapy in his office. He sometimes arranged for a patient to face his greatest fear in the outside world where the fear occurred.

Shedding Sunlight on the Coronavirus Epidemic

What exactly is vitamin D and how does it prevent or reduce Covid-19 infection? Here's what recent research has found.

Home Education in the Age of Coronavirus

Parents are now having to weigh their fear of the threat of coronavirus infection in traditional classrooms with the challenges of educating their child at home.

Vitamin D and COVID-19

How much Vitamin D should we be taking to help our immune system fight off COVID-19?