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When is it too early to start talking to children about sex, drugs, alcohol, suicide, and mental illness? We are already behind. The train carrying technology and social media has long left the station, and instead of debating whether children should be exposed to certain topics, we are now faced with a far more urgent reality: they already are. While adults hesitate, whisper, or place difficult conversations in the “too-hard” basket, technology has not paused. Everything is

Once passion is ignited, it can be difficult to rein it in. It has a tendency to run wild, sometimes faster than our reasoning can keep up. Yet despite the risks, passion is essential. We all need something in life that lights us up. Some people have more than one passion; others struggle to find even one. But to have none at all suggests that we have never truly felt the magic in what we do—and if that is the case, it may be time to move on. Suppressed passion cannot produce

Aristotle identified the elements of circumstance through the essential WH  questions. Of these, the most important were What  and Why . When we understand what we want and why we want it, we gain the power to create or change our circumstances. In doing so, we become the element  within our own lives. An element is an essential or defining part of something abstract, and it is within this abstract space that art therapy operates so effectively. In art therapy, the abstract h