by Helen Kain | ADHD, Anxiety, Attention Deficit Disorder, Changing our Minds, Flourish, Flourishing, High Performance, Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Stress, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
The Swedes have long had a name for children who bloom where they’re planted – whether in well-tended garden or a sidewalk crack – “dandelion children”. Thomas Boyd, a University of Arizona developmental psychologist and Bruce Ellis, a developmental pediatrician from...
by Helen Kain | Anxiety, Career, Coaching, Finance, Optimism, Relationship with Money
Does thinking about money make your stomach clench? When your spouse mentions your credit card balance, do you change the topic as quickly as possible? Is money the main thing you and your better half fight about? Want to change that? Read on. The Perfect Pointe Book...
by Helen Kain | Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Pessimism, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
My aunt Pat was something of a dish. Lively and humorous, with a caustic wit that rarely failed to entertain, she augmented the very restrictive rations available to Britons during WWII with “two shilling teas” to which she was escorted by a bevy of besotted...
by Helen Kain | Changing our Minds, Conflict, Learning, Stress, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
My husband Glenn is a car guy, and one of the apples of his eye is his 2003 Morgan, which lives at our place in Cape Cod. Our daughter Kirsten and her fiancé Michael, shown in said car, are tying the knot next month here in Canada and we thought it would be fun to...
