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How to Stop Overfunctioning in Relationships

How to Stop Overfunctioning in Relationships

Overfunctioning looks like being the responsible one. It usually means carrying what is not yours. How to spot the pattern and step back from it.

Understanding the Window of Tolerance

Window of Tolerance

Hyper-arousal, hypo-arousal, and the zone between them. What the window of tolerance is, and how to tell which one you are in right now.

How to Connect With Your Teen (Even in Tough Moments)

How to Connect with Your Teenager

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

Why Your Child’s Big Emotions Feel So Heavy (and How to Handle Them)

Why Your Child’s Big Emotions Feel So Heavy (and How to Handle Them)

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.

Parenting Workshop for Defiant Kids & Sibling Conflict Strategies

Parenting Workshop for Defiant Kids & Sibling Conflict Strategies

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

How to Calm Your Nervous System After Being Triggered

Ways To Calm Your Nervous System After Being Triggered

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

The Relationship Between Fear and Perfectionism | How To Let Go Of The Fear Of Not Being Perfect

The Relationship Between Fear and Perfectionism

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: The Power of YES | Examples of Positive Discipline Parenting for Elementary Age Kids | Just Mind Counseling

The Power of Yes

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.

Why Everything Is an Optimization Problem (Especially with ADHD)

Why Everything Is an Optimization Problem (Especially with ADHD)

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

Dating With Anxious Attachment: What Actually Helps From an IFS-Informed Perspective

Dating with Anxious Attachment: Internal Family Systems

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

How to Handle a Quarter Life Crisis: A Therapist’s Advice

Young adult thinking about life direction (quarter-life crisis concept)

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.

We partnered with UT to offer affordable counseling in Austin

Navigating the Holidays: How to Handle Difficult Family Dynamics

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

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