Free to Be Mindful

A licensed therapist's after school, evening, and morning routine that actually works, the final piece of the back to school runway series.

A licensed therapist's 3-step plan to reset bedtime and screen time before school starts, including the one rule she won't budge on.

I gave my own teenager free rein this summer: late nights, hours on the phone, limited chores most days. If I don't change anything between now and the first day of school, I already know what's coming, a morning where somebody's crying, somebody's yelling, and everybody's late. This happens every single year in my practice too, right around the third week of August. Parents come in already stressed, and the plan is almost always the same: wait until the night before, announce all the new...