by Dr. Melisa | Dec 12, 2023 | Her Moods & Mind
Those moods. As a parent, you watch them morph as your daughter cartwheels into adolescence and then slams the door in your face. Sometimes she’s her “usual” self. 😊 Sometimes she’s so … 👹 🐍 🥊 🎭 🛸 🗯 🤷🏾♀️. There’s no doubt it worries you. We hear it all the time,...
by Dr. Melisa | Nov 1, 2023 | Her Moods & Mind
Recently, I found something helpful – really helpful. I landed on some work by Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., a health psychologist who is re-engineering the way we should think about stress. She does a beautiful job translating neuroscience research into practical...
by Dr. Melisa | Aug 10, 2023 | Her Moods & Mind
Real quick – Tell me what word you would use to label this group of emotions: happy, joyful, confident, excited, victorious 😁 Ok, how about these? angry, jealous, sad, lonely, scared 😭 Did you use positive and negative? Good and bad? Healthy and unhealthy? When...
by Dr. Melisa | Dec 15, 2022 | Her Moods & Mind
If you were to take a few minutes before bed every night for a week to ponder and write down “Three Good Things” from your day, research says you’d experience an increase in happiness, hope, and optimism. If you were to stick with it longer, you’d grow resilience and...
