Putting Relationships Back Together

Isolation during the pandemic impacted all types of relationships. Friendships were put to the test, dating relied on technology more than ever, and couples had to navigate abrupt shifts in work and home life. Join Marjorie Morrison and Paul Deger on this episode as they explore the impact the pandemic had on our relationships.

“I think we really have to revisit our relationship with work to balance the other things–and have an expectation that it is equally, if not more important, for my family to be healthy, for my relationships to be healthy, for me to be in a healthy communion with others.” – Dr. Bita Rivas

Marjorie and Paul hear from Dr. Bita Rivas about valuing relationships, using our energy and time to prioritize what is important, and choosing quality over quantity in our engagements.

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Dr. Bita Rivas is a faculty member in the Counselor Education program at California State University Sacramento, specializing in marriage, couple, and family counseling; clinical mental health counseling, and addiction counseling. To read more, click here:

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Whether or now not (or how) to treat a child with ADHD is an understandably sharp resolution for many other folks. My mom made up our minds to, and faced (as many other folks attain) judgement for her choices. Here’s what I want to assert to her, and each mother or father who finds themselves accused of “drugging” their childhood.

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And for many who had been one of many other folks that had been injure or offended by Nicole Arbour’s video (if now not, it’s now not worth observing/giving her views, it’s obliging one of her conventional misinformed rants),
A ideal clarification of why she’s defective:
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Thanks to my Patreon supporters, for the sake of preserving this video immediate and shareable I did now not attain my normal intro or wrapup, but I would maybe maybe additionally now not bag performed this with out all of you.

By the capability, in case any individual is queer -- I purchase Vyvanse now, but I started on Ritalin.

Transcript of video:

What I want to assert to my mom, who "drugged" me:

Thanks. Thanks for listening when I told you I was struggling. Thanks for standing up for me when my dad tried to brush off what I was going thru as "standard." I now understand ADHD is extremely genetic and it's seemingly he felt that capability attributable to he presumably had ADHD himself.

Thanks for taking me to derive a honest overview so I understand my brain's differences and do not feel admire it's obliging all my fault. Thanks for taking me to a psychiatrist, month after month, to safe a therapy and dose that labored for me. And for taking me assist month after month after month after month -- I do know you had been busy, and but I never ran out of medication attributable to you took the time to purchase me to every appointment.

Thanks for ignoring the other folks that judged you. I do know there were many.

Thanks for understanding that there used to be a distinction between my sister as soon as almost as we train forgetting her homework and me losing or forgetting something almost each day. Thanks for understanding that whereas all childhood would maybe maybe additionally additionally be fidgety or impulsive or derive distracted, I struggled capability bigger than the assorted childhood my age. I now keep in mind the truth that is attributable to ADHD brains make in a different arrangement.

You did now not know that, you hadn't performed the be taught I essentially bag, but you listened to me when I told you I wanted assist.

Thanks to you, I received the therapy I wanted, I did better in faculty, I felt more confident and able to achieve my likely. Thanks to you, I never had to self medicate admire so many ADHDers I do know. I never sank into despair. I never gave up on myself. I never felt misunderstood. You understood. You believed me.

And whenever you presumably did, whenever you took me to a health care provider who would maybe maybe additionally account for to me what used to be happening in my brain, you took away so worthy disgrace.

Thanks, mom.