Therapy • Counseling for Individuals,
Couples and Families
Couples Personalized
Assessment Preparing For or
Enriching Your Marriage
LifeSkills Coach Achieving Your Goals
and Life Dreams
LifeSkills Training
and
Workshops DBT ACT HUGS™
Specialized Personality
Assessments Coping With and
Managing Personality
Disorders
Family Caregiving and
Eldercare Mediation Empowering and
Supporting Families
Ambiguous Loss & Grief Finding Meaning and
Discovering Hope
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LIFESKILLS TRAINING
and WORKSHOPS
Using a Peaceful Mind
to Overcome Depression
Saturday, March 3
9:30 to 11:30 am
Reservations Requested
Fees Apply Some Insurances Accepted
Childhood Affirmations
Helping parents raise resourceful, resilient, and compassionate children
Birth to 6 months: Learning about BEING and TRUST
We are glad you are here, because this is where you belong.
You can grow up at your own pace.
6 months to 18 months: Learning about DOING THINGS
When you explore and experiment, we will support and protect you.
We delight in your discoveries.
18 months to 3 years:Learning about THINKING and FEELING
You can learn to understand your feelings.
You can discover for yourself what you need.
3 years to 6 years: Learning about POWER and IDENTITY
All of your feelings are okay with us.
We enjoy having you explore who you are.
6 years to 13 years: Learning about STRUCTURE and SKILL
You can discover your own way of doing things.
We encourage you to develop your own special talents.
14 years to 19 years: Learning about IDENTITY, SEXUALITY, and SEPARATING
You can be responsible for your own needs, feeling, and behaviors, and still ask for our support.
We look forward to knowing you as an adult and our love is always with you.
20 years and beyond: Integrating All of Life's Lessons
As Erich Fromm states, "Man's task in life is to give birth to himself."
Source: The Childhood Affirmation Program by Arlene F Harder MA MFT and Chris Burdett-Par-- more information can be found at www.childhoodaffirmations.com.
THOUGHT TO PONDER
Without continual growth and
progress, such words as
improvement, achievement, and
success have no meaning.
11900 Wayzata Boulevard
Suite 216G
Minnetonka MN 55305-2035 (directions)
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SPEAKING
ENGAGEMENTS
To Be Announced
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Good News
As adults we can make every second count. We can protect children long enough for a good spell to be cast,
letting the magic of childhood turn
them into resilient and joyful adults.
Most parents these days are doing a great job. Don't let all the negative
press get you down; the current generation of children is by and large quite wonderful. Idealistic, ambitious, sane, hopeful, but a bit worried-these
are words I'd pick to describe today's children. Contrary to what you read in the press and various books, hear on
talk radio, or watch on TV ... It is the standard role of older generations to bemoan the state of the coming generation, and many adults have highlighted the downside of today's youth, but I can't join them. To the contrary, it is my observation that today's children comprise an excellent group. Parents, be glad and be proud.
~ Edward M Hallowell, MD
Instructor at Harvard Medical School
excerpt from What Do I Really
Want for My Children?
www.enotalone.com/article/4672.html
Wise Mind Connection
We worry about what a child
will become tomorrow,
yet we forget that he is
someone today!
Serving Minnesota, the Twin Cities and surrounding area including: Anoka, Blaine, Bloomington, Brooklyn Center, Brooklyn Park, Buffalo, Champlin, Chanhassen, Chaska, Columbia Heights, Coon Rapids, Corcoran, Crystal, Crystal Bay, Deephaven, Eden Prairie, Edina, Excelsior, Fridley, Golden Valley, Hamel, Hopkins, Lake Minnetonka, Loretto, Maple Grove, Maple Plain, Medina, Minneapolis, Minnetonka, Minnetonka Beach, Monticello, Mound, Mounds View, Navarre, New Hope, Orono, Osseo, Plymouth, Richfield, Robbinsdale, Rockford, Shorewood, St Anthony, St Bonifacius, St Louis Park, St Michael, St Paul, Shakopee, Spring Lake Park, Spring Park, Waconia, Wayzata, Woodland
