Flavia Nazareth

"I Just Want My Kids to Be Happy" There is a quiet story many women carry, a story that sounds responsible, loving, selfless. A voice that says: "My family comes first." And of course, there is beauty in devotion, and there is also a hidden cost when devotion slowly becomes self-abandonment. Something I have noticed over and over again—in my own life, in conversations with women, and in my work with families—is how easy it is for motherhood to become our entire identity. Somewhere along the...

A major new report published in The Lancet this week is once again sounding the alarm on the state of youth mental health around the world. The report highlights what many parents, educators, therapists, and families are already witnessing firsthand: the mental health of adolescents and young adults has been declining globally over the past two decades. Rates of anxiety, depression, emotional distress, loneliness, self-harm, and psychological overwhelm continue to rise among teenagers and...

A story I see more often than we talk about Recently, a family was referred to me about their 5-year-old kid. The concerns sounded familiar: “She doesn’t focus.”, “She doesn’t listen.”, "She doesn't stop!", “She’s disruptive.”, “We’re constantly being called by the school.” The parents were exhausted, the school was frustrated and the child was slowly being defined by her behavior. Her bad behavior. The family came in hoping for something very specific: clear strategies to make their daughter...