Shealah West Therapy, LLC

12/31/2025

CDC-Led Report on Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy and Cannabis Retail Sales

“The American Journal of Preventive Medicine has published a CDC-led report that used national survey data to assess how implementation of legal sales for non-medical cannabis might influence alcohol use during pregnancy… Implementation of legal non-medical cannabis retail sales was significantly associated with a 4.96 percentage point increase in binge drinking during pregnancy.”

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12/29/2025

My 5pm and 6pm clients have seen this a few times! 🤣😂🤣

12/29/2025

We value our bodily autonomy but tend not to extend the privilege to children. If I'm feeling "off" and struggle to get back on track, I can usually get away from the situation, take a walk, go get a drink, etc, but we label this behavior "elopement" in children. If safety is a concern, evaluate the need behind the feeling for escape and alleviate the problem so they can get back on track instead of punishing.

12/27/2025

YES! Gaming, boredom, irritability and BRAIN chemistry!!

12/26/2025

Endless emotional validation without limit setting, constant praise without correction, continual attempts to "fix" a child's feelings of disappointment, frustration or anger, rather than teaching emotional regulation through difficult situations WILL result in an entitled child and burned out parent who become increasingly angry and resentful with each other.

12/22/2025

I rarely see real change in a child struggling with significant behavior or emotional challenges unless parents are in their own therapy, either couples or individually. If you want your kid to get the most out of their therapy, go get the support you need as well. Your child's therapist can be supportive and empathetic, but they aren't your therapist. Unloading your struggles on your child's therapist takes away from both your child's healing journey and yours and you deserve your own support. They need to see your ability to regulate through whatever life brings.

12/21/2025

Elopement is: A DESPERATE NEED TO COPE WITH AN EXPERIENCE. Start there before insistence of defiance or non compliance. What is the child desperately trying to cope with???

IEP goals for elopement should teach safety and self-regulation—not just reduce incidents. Here’s how to write goals and get real support that works.

Link in first comment.

12/19/2025

Yes, stop going to therapy just to vent. Go to learn valuable tools, challenge unhelpful thought patterns, own your emotions, take responsibility for your actions, regulate your nervous system and process trauma. Go to this lady for medication that can help make all of that more manageable.

12/17/2025

Yes!!

12/12/2025

This!!!

12/12/2025

PERSPECTIVE. Then throw in ADHD prefrontal cortex and tell me what you get!!

12/07/2025

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CgkH3khN9/ MAKE BABY BOTTLES WITH UNOPENED WATER FOLKS!! Too many people will be swilling liquor under the guise that its H2O.