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Weight Loss & Executive Functioning
What does losing weight have to do with executive functioning? As it turns out, lots. For me, executive functioning is all about understanding my brain’s needs so that I have maximum control over
Continue readingInspiration for Executive Functioning: Mind Mapping
Planning is an executive functioning skill of the brain. It affects our ability to take the actions necessary for completing multi-step goals requiring future planning. It also affects our ability to do
Continue readingA Story of Executive Function: Hansel & Gretel and Working Memory
My working memory is pretty awful. It is likely that a concussion on the playground way back in early elementary school is a big factor in this executive functioning deficit. Alas, what is truly scary
Continue readingThe Courage to Change
When I work with people who struggle with executive functioning deficits during Seeing My Time sessions, I am keenly aware of what they are asking of themselves. By working with me, they are taking a
Continue readingAn Inspiring 6th Grader
One of the reasons I love my work helping individuals and families with their executive functions is that I am often surprised and inspired by my client client’s responses to the prompts in their Seeing
Continue readingDeveloping Executive Functioning in Babies
As I read Brain Rules for Babies, by John Medina, I kept sighing, wishing such a book had existed when I was a new mother. Here are the clues for developing executive functioning as you parent. This is
Continue readingMental Flexibility and Success
Mental flexibility is an essential executive function. I crashed into my own inflexible thinking recently and was surprised because I think of myself as a pretty flexible thinker. For the time-challenged,
Continue readingThe Family Meeting: Four Steps for Executive Functioning Success
It is very typical for one parent in a family to be the Family Calendar Keeper, what I call the “executive functioning machine” for the whole family. By the time that family gets to my table for their
Continue readingSplit Families: Strategies and Tips to Support Executive Functioning and Lower Conflict
Lately I’ve been impressed by some split families who’ve come to my table to rally around their struggling child. It is inspiring to have these parents set aside their differences for the
Continue readingExhausted? A Tech Tool for Sleep Hygiene
The other day at about 2:15 in the afternoon, my twenty-year-old client’s head was drooping lower and lower to the table. He yawned and apologized, saying “I’m just so tired.” Our session turned
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