by Gina Nelson | Oct 11, 2022 | Anxiety, Parenting, Teens
Emotional Intelligence One thing I’ve learned over 25 years in this field is that our emotional capabilities and abilities to recognize, name, and feel our emotions is something most of us lack. In fact, whether I’m sitting across from a teen or a 50 something year...
by Gina Nelson | Sep 27, 2022 | Beliefs, Wellbeing
Why I Wanted My Van My husband is much more fiscally conservative and is the kind of man who would like to save and wait for retirement. Yet I lived in the medical world for 20 years and watched countless individuals wait and wait until they finally retired to start...
by Gina Nelson | Sep 13, 2022 | Anxiety, Wellbeing
Compounding Weariness Well, it got me! Yes, despite all the work I do to manage my wellness and self-care and stay in balance, sometimes Anxiety still creeps its way in. It’s sneaky…and even when I think I’m taking all the arrows of life with stride…Bam a rush of...
by Gina Nelson | Aug 30, 2022 | Anxiety, Teens
Anxiety Wasn’t Talked About Growing up, I lived in a pretty normal suburban house with a nuclear family, 2 siblings and a dog. Nobody ever talked about “Anxiety” or gave it that name… but the frenetic energy and buzzing within the home, the expectation of always...
by Gina Nelson | Jul 25, 2022 | Teens, Values
Who Moved My Cheese? Many years ago when I was manager of a social work department in Valencia, CA, I was asked to read this little book called Who Moved My Cheese? by Dr. Spencer Johnson. I was in my late 20s and I was trying to impact a social work department and...
