by Gina Nelson | Oct 25, 2022 | Teens
Making The Right Decision Today’s young adults are feeling the pressure to really choose wisely when picking a major for their future career. I’ve been seeing more and more young adults afraid of picking the right major and fearful that if they pick the wrong one,...
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 | 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...
