Meditation Can Help Ease Anxiety and Frustration

Everyone experiences frustration from time to time. Many children who have special needs frequently feel frustrated. If their special need includes a tendency to have low impulse control, this is going to make their lives more difficult. Learning how to meditate can help these children learn to self calm. Meditation is an ancient practice that has been used to help clear the mind and calm the body. It can help reduce feelings of anxiety. It is a practice that people can spend their entire lives working on. Even so, meditation can be something that a complete beginner can quickly pick … Continue reading

Sleep Deprivation or as I Like to Call It…Perimenopause

If you look up the symptoms of perimenopause, you will see that sleep disturbance is one of them. Sleep disturbance is too a nice a phrase for what’s going on with me. It’s more like sleep twister. Or maybe sleep turbulence. If I am lucky enough to get to sleep, I wake up in the middle of the night then toss and turn until the clock goes off. Last night (I woke up at 3:02 am) was better than the night before (I woke up at 1:14 am). For the first time in my life, I am having trouble getting … Continue reading