3 Ways to Stop Fighting with Your Teen
3 Ways to Stop Fighting with Your Teen by: Jazmin Gutierrez Adolescence is characterized by striving for independence during a stage in which the majority of their life is out of their control. Teenagers are frustrated by this, and often try to gain a sense of control in any way they can. Parents serve as […]
Simple Strategies for Investing in Your Relationships, Money Edition
“Finances are generally not the main reason for divorce, but they’re a huge part of the conflict that can lead to divorce.” – Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT The SIMPLE Money Edition series, Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT, and Erik Garcia, CFP® provide you with a simple, practical, and tactical strategy for overcoming your […]
Simple Strategies for Investing in Your Relationships
Every week Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT and Erik Garcia, CFP® end the show with the encouragement to “Invest in Your Relationships.” But how? How do you invest in something that feels intangible? It’s SIMPLE. The Simple series provides you with simple, everyday, practical, and tactical strategies for investing in your relationships and Building Us. […]
Feeling Upside Down? Helping Kids Thrive Through the Pandemic…One Year Later with Dr. Laura Hernandez
One year later, “Feeling Upside Down?”, the poem Dr. Laura Hernandez penned to help kids cope with the pandemic, is still relevant. Read her poem. “I think the mindful piece of it is that big pause button has helped us to reevaluate and be mindful of the things that either we need to add into […]
The Kids are Alright
A recent study found that teens fared fairly well during the pandemic slow down while schools shut down. Their parents struggled, with adult symptoms of depression and distress ascending (three-fold increase as compared to 2018 and 2019). Meanwhile, teen mental health improved according to the study. That’s right, a major US study found that teen […]
Smoothing Out the Mother/Daughter Relationship
“It isn’t even about giving advice. It’s about letting them talk and hearing them from a non-judgmental zone, from a non-zone of wanting to interject, from a non-zone of trying to fix it and just be present. What a gift we can give to them when we can do it.” – Giselle Armantrout Navigating the […]
Adjust Your Work-Life Balance
“You hear the attitude of gratitude, and that’s really what it was for us is changing the perspective and being able to pivot.” – Ben Dichiara In this episode of the Building Us podcast, co-hosts Erik Garcia, CFP® and Dr. Matt Morris, LPC, LMFT interview Ben Dichiara, Chiropractor and Manager at Allied Chiropractic and Wellness. […]
Couples & Covid-19 – what helps?
How is Corona virus affecting couples and families? And how can couples stay strong? Those questions were recently posed to Dr. Matt Morris How is covid-19 affecting couples and families? “We’re not exactly sure, but we’re certain that the Covid-19 quarantine is affecting couples and families in unique ways.” Couples are spending hours, days, and […]
Self-Care & Coronavirus
50 Self-Care ideas for the Sequestered… Not a title I ever thought before about writing, but here we are. Caring for yourself is essential to living well through stress and caring well for others. Here’s a few of our favorite ideas: Start your morning with silence and solitude. Take some deep breaths, remember we’ll get […]
Boundaries in Families
What are they, and why are they so important? Boundaries are often talked about, and frequently misunderstood. Boundaries in families are like the checkpoints along the border of a country. The boundary allows some things in, but not everything, and some things out, but not unregulated. In relationships, boundaries are the visible (skin, clothes, doors, […]