Calming the Chaos: Practicing Distress Tolerance Skills for Parents and Teens
Constant news updates, closures, cancellations, social distancing, and all the unknown we are currently dealing with has many of us feeling overwhelmed and not at all in control. As parents, you are working hard to create normalcy and structure for your kids among this chaos, while also managing your own anxieties. In my sessions, I often tell my clients the problems they cannot change or control, are the most frustrating ones. I also tell my clients that when they are faced