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April 21, 2020

By Andrea Haffner Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Secure Beginnings Senior Clinical Advisor In this extended time of social distancing, you and your family may be experiencing a huge range of feelings, and those feelings may change from day to day and minute to minute. There may be times in which you feel greater quiet, appreciation,...

The Magic of Stone Soup

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April 8, 2020

By Carol Castanon Secure Beginnings Parent Consultant Sheltering in place has been a dramatic reminder of the power of meaningful connections. We might be plenty worried about others, or not, but the shifts in our daily lives revolve around the change in the proximity of relationships. Relationships at the market, the playground, work, school, childcare, or...

Support for Families during Shelter In Place

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March 20, 2020

By Carol Castanon Secure Beginnings Parent Consultant I’m wondering how you are holding up? Like yours, my family has elders, working parents, childcare, young children, and pregnancy. Some of my family have health challenges and some of my family and dear friends are in senior communities. I’m thinking about our threads of human connection and how we uphold our family’s...

The Doing vs. Being of a ParentCare Volunteer

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August 29, 2019

by Ellen Nightingale “What does a ParentCare volunteer do?” is a frequent question both a soon to be parent and a potential ParentCare volunteer might ask. It was the first question I asked when I landed at the Nan Tolbert Nurturing Center in 2013; 31 weeks pregnant with my second child and the ParentCare program was...

First Steps to a Healthy Relationship with Sleep

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March 28, 2019

by Carol Castanon and Andi Metlzer For many people, there is nothing better than falling into bed after a long day. For adults, the idea of a cozy bed can make them giddy with joy as they think about laying their head on a fluffy pillow and snuggling down into their comforter. But, before a restful...