
How to Connect With Your Teen (Even in Tough Moments)
Five ways to reach your teenager during an emotional spike, starting with modeling calm instead of matching their intensity.

Five ways to reach your teenager during an emotional spike, starting with modeling calm instead of matching their intensity.

A Just Mind workshop on why your child’s big emotions land so heavily on you, and how to move from chaos to connection. Event details inside.

A Just Mind parenting workshop on reducing power struggles with defiant kids and calming sibling conflict. Tools you can use that same night.

A four-minute video and a grounding practice for the moment right after you get triggered, when reasoning with yourself is not working yet.

Perfectionism is usually fear wearing a more acceptable outfit. How the two feed each other, and how to loosen the grip of getting it right.

Positive discipline is not permissiveness. What it looks like in a real moment with a real kid, and why limits land better taught than punished.

You cannot optimize everything at once. Why trying to means the trade-offs pick themselves, and how to choose what you are solving for.

Why anxious attachment develops, what it looks like early in dating, and what actually helps when the waiting-for-a-reply spiral starts.

A therapist on the quarter life crisis: why your twenties can feel like falling behind, and what to do when the plan stops making sense.

Just Mind partnered with UT to offer lower-cost counseling in Austin. What it costs, and the counselors you would be working with.

Skip the reinvention. A gentler approach to the new year: reflect on the year you actually had, then set intentions rooted in it.

How trauma shows up between two people rather than inside one, the questions worth asking each other, and how couples build resilience together.

Attraction gets a marriage started. Whether it keeps one going is a different question, and the honest answer is more complicated than yes or no.

Moderation is a skill, not a personality trait. How to practice it when your instinct is all-or-nothing, and what balance actually looks like.

A Just Mind networking happy hour at Meanwhile Brewing for Austin clinicians. Why it is worth attending, plus the date, time, and location.