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Oxygen Mask – Adult First, then Children … Why?

Maria Sikoutris Di Iorio

Oxygen Mask – Adult First, then Children … Why?

As you were growing up, you may not have learned how to take good care of yourself. In fact, much of your attention may have been in taking care of others or on just getting by. “People Pleasing” is a term that refers to taking care of others’ needs rather than taking care of ourselves. People often confuse “people pleasing” with being unselfish, and make comments such as “I am not a selfish person”. However, always putting other people’s needs before your own can exhaust

Helping Teenagers Deal with Prom Night Stress

Maria Sikoutris Di Iorio

Helping Teenagers Deal with Prom Night Stress

Prom can be one of the most exciting times for your teenager but at the same time one of the most stressful. It can also be very stressful for parents as they prepare themselves to accept that their teenager is graduating and soon going away to school, while planning a weekend away after prom night. Going to the Shore for the weekend or somewhere overnight has become more of the ritual for prom night than the prom itself. There tends to be a lot of anxiety in the preparation

Dropping Off Our Kids At College – Learning How To Adjust

Maria Sikoutris Di Iorio

Dropping Off Our Kids At College – Learning How To Adjust

Whether your kid is a freshman entering college for the first time or returning back to college, there are so many emotions we experience as parents. There are differences in a parent’s reaction to the departure of a first child, an only child or even the last child. Feelings of sadness, anxiety and depression are normal and expected responses. It is a new phase in life for us and them that represents transition and change. For many college kids, once they leave for schoo

Stop Your Critical Inner Voice

Maria Sikoutris Di Iorio

Stop Your Critical Inner Voice

The critical inner voice usually comes from early life experiences that are internalized and taken in as a way of thinking about ourselves. Everyone has a critical inner voice. No one can escape that. People with low self-esteem simply have a more vicious inner voice. Your inner voice compares you to others, sets impossible standards, relives failures and ignores your strengths and calls you names. Your critical inner voice could be your mother, your father, a spouse, your bo