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Negative self-talk can feel automatic and convincing. Learn how DBT self-validation can retrain your inner voice with compassion, reduce shame, and build resilience.
Practical, compassionate strategies from Dr. Marcus Rodriguez on fostering healthier parent-teen relationships—communication that works, when to step back, and how to repair after conflict.
YFI’s Founder, Marcus Rodriguez, PhD, spoke with Girls’ Voices Now filmmakers about how criticism—in media, at home, and at school—affects girls’ confidence and mental health. Here are the stats and takeaways.
How DBT and validation can help transform intense emotional states, known as ‘emotional dysregulation,’ into more manageable, stable, adaptive, and healthy emotions long-term.
When someone we love is grieving, our first impulse is to try to make it better—after all, who wants to see someone they love suffer? In this article, we discuss how to help a grieving friend.
The Be There Certificate, by Jack.org and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, is a free self-paced course that can be completed in less than 2 hours. Its purpose is to teach you how to support your peers in a real and safe way.
In this article, we discuss why depression isn’t just a “chemical imbalance” and why we should focus on the importance of connection and environment in treating depression.
Negative self-talk can feel automatic and convincing. Learn how DBT self-validation can retrain your inner voice with compassion, reduce shame, and build resilience.
Practical, compassionate strategies from Dr. Marcus Rodriguez on fostering healthier parent-teen relationships—communication that works, when to step back, and how to repair after conflict.
YFI’s Founder, Marcus Rodriguez, PhD, spoke with Girls’ Voices Now filmmakers about how criticism—in media, at home, and at school—affects girls’ confidence and mental health. Here are the stats and takeaways.
How DBT and validation can help transform intense emotional states, known as ‘emotional dysregulation,’ into more manageable, stable, adaptive, and healthy emotions long-term.
When someone we love is grieving, our first impulse is to try to make it better—after all, who wants to see someone they love suffer? In this article, we discuss how to help a grieving friend.
The Be There Certificate, by Jack.org and Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, is a free self-paced course that can be completed in less than 2 hours. Its purpose is to teach you how to support your peers in a real and safe way.
In this article, we discuss why depression isn’t just a “chemical imbalance” and why we should focus on the importance of connection and environment in treating depression.
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