IS SELF-DOUBT STOPPING YOU FROM LIVING YOUR DREAMS?

Everyone suffers from at least a little self-doubt. It's basic human nature. At the extremes, it can keep you alive. But, in most situations, it only serves to limit you.

14 WAYS TO BE MORE LOVING TOWARD YOURSELF

What would your life be like if you treated yourself like a dear friend? After all, your attitude towards yourself shapes your daily reality.

DO YOU HAVE LOW-SELF ESTEEM?

Do you suffer from low self-esteem and wonder about the source of your feelings of inadequacy? There are many potential sources of low self-esteem. It has been said that we spend the last 60 years of life recovering from the first 18. In many cases, the first 18 years of life give our self-esteem a beating. Adults aren’t immune from self-esteem issues either.

PUT SOME FUN BACK INTO YOUR LIFE

You probably don’t have as much fun as you’d like. This is a common complaint among adults. You're in the right place if you feel like you’ve been missing out. There’s no reason that you can’t enjoy a little fun regularly.

How to define invisible disabilities and how to see the positives.

Being Dyslexic is no longer shameful. Learn how to know your strengths and how to apply them to your professional life by exploring yourself on a deeper level and creating an action plan for your transformation.

If you ask a teacher about one of the constant thoughts, they will probably say protecting their students from a violent intruder. Unfortunately, We know that the violence in schools will not stop soon. So, what can we do to help the ones we love who are in school daily? I have shared tips on what you can do to help your loved ones process their feelings of fear inside their school.

Change is challenging for all of us and causes us anxiety. There is always discussion about the negative behaviors before a long break, but we seldom talk about the behaviors after the break. In this newsletter, we talk about how changes affect how we feel and as adults, we can help kids process their emotions in a healthy, safe way.

Inclusion means to include all and to give access to everyone. How do we know if we are inclusive, and how do we teach inclusivity to our children? We talk about making our community one where others feel safe, supported, and included.

Throughout my life, I have sat at an Individual Education Plan (IEP) table as the student, the IEP case manager who is in charge of implementing an IEP, and as a parent of a child with an IEP. Having these experiences have formed the way I work within an IEP team. In this newsletter, I am sharing from the parent's perspective.

Throughout my life, I have sat at an Individual Education Plan (IEP) table as the student, the IEP case manager, and as a parent of a child with an IEP. Having these experiences have formed the way I work within an IEP team. In this newsletter, I talk about how a student feels in an IEP meeting and how student-lead IEPs can give them a voice to be an active participant in their learning.

In this issue of the Fresh Thinking Newsletter, we continue our talk about the reptilian brain. We look at the process of de-escalation and how to handle various situations. We also talk about how being a support for someone in the fight, flight, or freeze crisis mode takes a toll on you.

Make sure you check out Anna Davidson's The Freedom Project podcast. I speak about what freedom means to me and how it relates to special education!

We have all heard about our fight or flight mode, and we can give examples of different times in our lives when we used this defense mechanism. In this Fresh Thinking Newsletter, we discuss the reptilian brain and how it affects our bodies. We also talk about how to work with kids who are in a state of fight or flight? How to handle a person who cannot think logically when we want to have a rational conversation?

Learn about self-care and what it actually means!