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Embrace Self-Compassion: The Key to Effective Goal Setting
Welcome to 2025 - A new year, and often the time when people consider what changes they would like to make to improve their lives. We have just survived the holiday season, and let's be honest - we are exhausted. If you are a parent, then you have just navigated...
Happy Spouse Happy House – How Dads Can Enhance Their Mental Health
As we come to the end of November, I will wrap up my series on mental wellness for dads by highlighting the importance of your mental health. You may have heard the age-old saying "Happy wife, happy life," but I think the more important saying is "Happy spouse, happy...
Choosing to Drink Less – Strategies for Success
Parenting is stressful, and so is balancing work, parenting, and partnership. For many dads, the default way to unwind is to drink. Excessive alcohol consumption creates stress and tension in many families, and many dads are looking for strategies to successfully...
Why Do Dads Beat Themselves Up? Understanding Self-Criticism
Dads, how often have you spent the entire day or night beating yourself up for a mistake you made? Perhaps you yelled at your kid(s) after promising yourself that you would remain calm. Or you forgot your child's mittens, and the daycare staff scolded you for not...
Managing ADHD: Strategies for Dads in a Neurotypical World
In my last post, I wrote about how executive functioning is impacted by ADHD, and how that impacts ADHD dads. Today I am going to share skills and strategies that greatly help ADHD dads manage in a neurotypical world. Some of the issues that ADHD dads experience are...
ADHD in Dads: Understanding Its Impact
Last weekend I attended the BCACC's Regional Workshop, which focused on working with adult ADHD. Although you may think ADHD is a diagnosis reserved for children, the truth is that ADHD impacts adults as well. ADHD is a lifelong type of neurodiversity - meaning that...