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School Assessments: Tools For a Child's Success

School assessments help identify a child’s strengths, challenges, and needs, guiding meaningful support at school and home. When families and educators work together, these evaluations become powerful tools for growth, not labels for a child’s future.

Rebekah Taussig on What Disability and Ableism Mean and What They Don’t

Author Rebekah Taussig shares her experience growing up with a disability, navigating depression, and learning to understand herself in a world shaped by ableism. In this conversation, she reflects on identity, motherhood, and the shift from seeing herself as deficient to recognizing systemic barriers.

Isaac Fitzgerald’s Family Story of Substance Use, Violence, Mental Illness, and, Ultimately, Love

Author Isaac Fitzgerald reflects on a childhood shaped by substance use, violence, and mental health struggles, including the loss of his mother to suicide. Despite these challenges, he shares how love, literature, and community helped guide him toward healing and a more hopeful path.

When Young Children Show Aggressive Behavior

Aggressive behaviors like hitting or biting can be difficult to navigate, but they are often a child’s way of communicating unmet needs or overwhelming emotions. By understanding the root cause and responding with consistency, modeling, and positive reinforcement, caregivers can help children build healthier ways to express themselves. Early support makes a lasting difference.

Ashley C. Ford on Making Sense of Her Mom, “The Mother”, and a Dad in Prison

Author Ashley C. Ford shares her experience growing up with a mother who was both loving and abusive, while her father was incarcerated for most of her life. In this conversation, she reflects on making sense of those complex family dynamics and how they continue to shape her identity, relationships, and healing as an adult. It’s a powerful look at understanding where we come from, and how it impacts who we become.

TV’s Paul Scheer Never Fought With His Girlfriend. That Was a Red Flag.

Actor Paul Scheer reflects on his childhood with an abusive stepfather and how those experiences shaped his relationship with anger, conflict, and identity. Through therapy and conversations with his wife, he began to understand the lasting impact of that trauma and how it showed up in his adult life. He shares how he’s working to break those patterns and build a healthier relationship with himself and his family.

It’s Spring – So Why Aren’t You Happy?

Loneliness is on the rise, and rebuilding meaningful connections can feel harder than ever. As social habits shift and relationships take more effort to maintain, loneliness can quietly become the norm for youth and adults. So how do we begin to recover? It starts with a simple idea: “do then feel.”

Joel Kim Booster’s Parents Found His Diary And Everything Blew Apart

Actor and writer Joel Kim Booster shares his journey growing up in a deeply religious adoptive household where his sexuality and mental health struggles were not accepted. After his parents discovered he was gay by reading his journal, Joel left home at 17 and began building a life on his own while later navigating a diagnosis of bipolar II disorder. In this candid conversation, he reflects on self-acceptance, boundaries with family, and the path toward reconciliation and stability.

Frank Cobbe and His Mom Team Up to Unlock Both of Their Mental Health Mysteries

At just 22, Frank Cobbe has already done significant work to understand his mental health and support others. After being diagnosed with bipolar II disorder and later discovering he is on the autism spectrum, Frank and his mom began a journey that helped them both better understand their mental health. In this episode, Frank shares how family support, education, and self-discovery helped him make sense of experiences like hypomania and psychosis, and why he now advocates for young adult mental health.