Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft There’s a reason that books that offer advice on achieving success are perennial best sellers: They work! There are many different ways to enhance your performance in your chosen career....
How To Help Children Build Resilience
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft We recently wrote about the potential severe negative consequences in a child’s development when they undergo constant, prolonged stress: Dealing With Childhood Stress In A Healthy Way. The good news...
Dealing With Childhood Stress In A Healthy Way
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft Seeing a child in distress — in tears and sobbing — is a heartbreaking sight for anyone. It’s even more poignant for a parent when that child is their own. That’s why it’s so natural for mothers...
Want To Think Faster? Here’s How.
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Smart young people are justifiably confident in their ability to remember an enormous amount of information and call it up quickly. What’s more, they’re probably confident that they can...
A Very Simple Contributor To Success
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft The subject of success has fascinated people from time immemorial, and people have approached the idea from an incredible range of perspectives. In roughly the fifth century B.C., Sun Tzu...
Seven Ways To Nurture A Healthy Romantic Relationship
Marriage Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft At the end of many fairy tales the closing line is, “And they lived happily ever after.” Of course, there’s a reason that stories that end that way are called fairy tales: they’re not real....
How Much Screen Time For Your Kids Is Enough?
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft It seems like the internet has been around forever. But most people probably didn’t start regularly visiting websites until 2000 or so. And who even knew what Google was back then? Beyond the internet,...
Does Socializing Leave You Exhausted? Or Exhilarated?
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft Getting out and enjoying an evening with friends is one of life’s delights. And that’s true whether you’re young and single or a little older and happily involved in a long-term romantic...
Advice For Parents Of Kids 6-10
Family Counseling Insights brought to you by Patricia McTague-Loft Styles of parenting are almost as individual and unique as parents themselves. Some parents just wing it, figuring that loving their kids and providing for their basic needs is just fine, thank you....
Why We Get Angry And What To Do About It
Individual Counseling Insights From Westlake Village-Based Patricia McTague-Loft In the Disney film Inside Out, Riley — the young protagonist of the film — deals with five emotions: Joy, sadness anger, fear and disgust. In the movie, each emotion actually exists as a...