“No one should touch your private parts unless it is to keep you clean or healthy.” I know that this commonly stated sentence is meant to protect and educate our children about sexual abuse, but here is the problem with it: It does not give…
Author: Jessie Shepherd, LCMHC/LPC
Jessie Shepherd is a Mental Health Counselor and owner of Blue Clover Therapy in Utah and Texas. She has a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelors degree in Psychology from the University of Utah. Her focus is treating trauma, eating disorders and adjustment issues in adults, adolescents, children and their families. Jessie is the author of the “What Mental Disorder?” book series and has been featured in print and television throughout the region with regular appearances on Fox’s The Place and Park City Television. On a personal note she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children recreating outdoors. She is also a coach for the Cedar Valley Mountain Bike Team. Jessie believes in individual and family involvement to better the lives of everyone in our community.
Here is why your kids need a ‘Chore Culture’.
Many parents do everything for their kids. And I mean everything. We may think we are being supportive and kind to them by doing all of their laundry, cleaning up after dinner, making their bed, and taking care of their pets- but we are actually…
Want something done? Ask the busiest person you know.
I am so impressed by my kids’ (soon to be) Aunt and Uncle. They are two of the busiest people I know and they still find time to spend with my kids. Plus, when they are with them, they are 100% with them in the…
What is Disassociation?
Have you ever watched one of those nature shows where a lion is eating a zebra while it is still alive and wondered- “How the hell is this zebra dealing with this?!? He is still breathing and they are ripping open his stomach!” The answer…