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6 Benefits of Mindfulness for Teachers
When teachers learn mindfulness, they not only reap personal benefits such as reduced stress and burnout, but their schools do as well. In randomized controlled trials, teachers who learned mindfulness reported greater efficacy in doing their jobs and had more emotionally supportive classrooms, as well as better classroom organization based on independent observations. Solid scientific…
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South Asian Senior Women Have A Place
Desi Senior Women’s Group in OC This group is for women 55+ coming from India, Bangladesh & Pakistan, dealing with loneliness & language barriers. Regardless of the facts of a person’s isolation, seniors who feel lonely and isolated are more likely to report also having poor physical and/or mental health. Connecting seniors with social resources,…
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Multicultural Issues and Transitions
Going to school and growing up in a different environment from your familial and cultural background can be a struggle for young people. At times you can feel conflicted, perhaps smothered at home or pressured by your peers. Sometimes, you just can keep up with all the new societal rules and manners outside your…
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Parenting & Empty Nest
Parenting Helping teens goes hand in hand with helping their parents. Having been a Counselor with California public schools for 10 years, I have an extensive background in educational support services for both parents and students, helping children with learning disabilities, academic underachievement and behavioral issues, treating struggling children or adolescents and their families. I…
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Academic Underachievement
Underachieving students continue to perplex parents, educators, and sometimes themselves. What they often don’t know is that they will be most successful in school when stress is low and they are highly engaged. I help students to understand this and learn how to recognize when they are having difficulty engaging in assignments and identify when…
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Current Groups
Please get in touch about group schedule and signing up. Weight Escape Group for Teens Do you feel like the way you look is just not good enough and food is the culprit? This group is about bridging the psychological gap between what we want to do and what we actually do. We will put…
