Author: Alexandra Salerno, LPC, NCC
The unknown is scary. Period. One of the hardest things; is not knowing what the future holds. We don’t have a crystal ball and we can’t say exactly what is going to happen. And that – is scary.
Whenever fear is present, anxiety tends to be right there with it. Anxiety is an intense, excessive, and persistent worry and fear about a sit...
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Face Your Fears: How to Handle Failure
Author: Alexandra Salerno, LPC, NCC
Imagine you’re minutes away from giving one of the most
important speeches of your career. You’ve prepared for this moment for months;
reviewing and revising your thoughts, clarifying talking points, rehearsing out
loud, and memorizing your lines. All of a sudden, a moment of dread hits and
you think to yourself, “what if I mess up?”
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PARTICIPATION TROPHIES: IS JAMES HARRISON RIGHT?
Participation Trophies: The Good, the Bad, and the Lessons Learned
By Aimee C. Kimball, PhD
Yup. One parent, albeit an NFL player, decides that he doesn’t want his kids to have a “participation trophy” and now the floodgates have opened and every parent who has ever had a little kiddo in sports has an opinion. You just want to know what the right thing to do is so you don...
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