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Happiness At Home: Managing The Stress In Your Life

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, friendship, mental health, newsletter, stress

In the last newsletter, we discussed what stress is and what causes it. In this issue, you will learn how to manage the stress in your life and protect yourself against it. [...]

Express Yourself

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, friendship, happy families, keeping kids out of trouble, parenting, self esteem, stress, teens, tweens

I spend a lot of time with my psychotherapy clients focusing on communication. I’m not sure that I’ve ever had a couple come for couples therapy that has NOT brought up “poor [...]

Happiness At Home Newsletter: You Can Build Your People Skills

Andrea Ramsay Speers

communication, couples, friendship, happy families, marriage, newsletter, parenting, teens, tweens

How would you like to get along even better with others in your personal relationships and in the workplace? Getting along well with people sounds kind of general and is [...]

Surviving Sleep-Overs

Andrea Ramsay Speers

friendship, parenting, Pet Peeves, tweens

Sleep-overs are an important rite of passage for teens and pre-teens. But any parent who’s ever hosted one will tell you that the potential for disaster (spills and [...]

Conversation Basics

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, communication, friendship, happy families, parenting, Pet Peeves, self esteem, tweens

I think every parent wants to raise a polite child. Sometimes how that is defined varies from family to family, but overall, there are some things that we have as a culture [...]

Meeting New Friends

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, friendship, parenting, school, self esteem, teens

Switching schools or classes in the middle of the school year can be hard for younger kids, especially when they don’t know anyone in the new place yet. Work with the [...]

Lonely or a Loner?

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, communication, friendship, keeping kids out of trouble, nagging, parenting, school, self esteem, stress, teens

If you are a social butterfly, but you’ve got a kid who’d rather play alone than attend a party, it can lead a parent to wonder if there’s a problem. The [...]

BFF – Or Not Anymore

Andrea Ramsay Speers

bullying, communication, friendship, parenting, school, self esteem, teens

Friendships matter to kids. They matter to adults, too, but sometimes we can forget that the perspective we have isn’t shared by our children. It can be heartbreaking and [...]

Surviving High School

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, communication, friendship, parenting, school, self esteem, teens

Starting high school is a biggie. Now that I spend a lot of my days working with teens, let me pass on some of the practical tips I’ve come across through my work, that might [...]

In Praise Of Girlfriends

Andrea Ramsay Speers

anxiety, communication, friendship, gratitude, parenting, self esteem

Where would we be without our girlfriends? We go through cycles in our lives, and I think are friendships are no exception. When we first have kids, we tend to gravitate [...]