Christine Triano, LCSW

01/30/2024

When self-care is everywhere, it’s easy to overlook why and how we all need it. So excited to be part of the amazing group putting on this event, where you are guaranteed to have real tools and your own personalized plan in your hands before lunchtime🙌.

Eventbrite link below or visit https://www.foothilltherapycollective.com/events for more info.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-science-of-self-care-for-parents-caregivers-tickets-789814024007?aff=ebdsshios

11/22/2022

All our kids can play a part, SO important to help them develop the life skills needed to put dinner on the table, whether it’s Thanksgiving or just another Thursday night.

10/02/2022

So pleased to appear in Grown & Flown, my favorite site about parenting teens and young adults (and a great newsletter follow for parents of older kids)! For those who can relate, how’s your empty nest working out?

It's hard to see your kids go, but maybe even harder for single moms. Here is how this mom made peace with the newly empty nest.

12/30/2021

Truth

As several teachers of mindfulness have said, “Thoughts aren’t facts.” And thoughts aren’t acts. They’re just thoughts, part of the passing mental landscape. Thoughts moving through your mind are like clouds moving across the sky. They are not the sky, and the sky remains unchanged by them. The way to be with them is just to watch them go by. That’s not generally how we experience our thoughts, but that’s what you’re working toward.

Image by Matt Blease

12/10/2021

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11/17/2021

Love this. Be you!

Too often, parenting is reduced to a set of techniques and strategies to get our kids to go to sleep, eat their vegetables, not hit their brother, do their chores…

Imagine if a partner sought out techniques and strategies to get you to sleep with them, lose weight, or keep the house clean.

It’s deeply disrespectful and dehumanizing!

Let’s stop seeing parenting as behavior management and manipulation and learn to have relationship instead. 💗



HT on IG

10/27/2021

Never too much…

Self-Compassion Phrases ✨

• May I be kind to myself in this moment.
• May I accept this moment exactly as it is.
• May I accept myself exactly as I am in this moment.
• May I give myself all the compassion I need.

09/23/2021

Not surprising after working with teen girls for many years, but still stunning to see the negative impact of Instagram quantified like this:
“Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the researchers reportedly wrote.

The company is in the process of making a version of Instagram for kids.

08/27/2021

SO MUCH good advice here for those of you (like me🥲) sending your kid off to college!

07/12/2021

Phrase of the day=“collective effervescence.” May your week deliver it in abundance!

We find our greatest bliss in moments of “collective effervescence.”

07/08/2021

Loving everything about this piece and the way the biological anthropologist authors explore mental health: “Taken together, the authors posit that anxiety, depression and PTSD may be adaptive responses to adversity.”

What if mental disorders like anxiety, depression or post-traumatic stress disorder aren’t mental disorders at all?

06/18/2021

New blog for all the parents of teens out there, and those who know and love them:

Why your relationship with your teen is worth the hard work of change.