by Nathan Swaringen, LCSW | Apr 10, 2020 | Hope, Mental Wellness
Anxiety and depression are hard to overcome under any circumstance, so when there is a global pandemic, their impact can be so much greater and even harder to manage. How do we communicate our feelings when we’re told not to leave our homes? How do we get fresh...
by Nathan Swaringen, LCSW | Mar 20, 2020 | Mental Wellness, Parenting Tips
“At many times throughout their lives, children will feel the world has turned topsy-turvy. It’s not the ever-present smile that will help them feel secure. It’s knowing that love can hold many feelings, including sadness, and that they can count on the people they...
by Nathan Swaringen, LCSW | Feb 27, 2020 | Community, Trauma-informed
Halfway through the fourth year of It’s About T.I.M.E., it is important to remind ourselves that change takes time (pun intended). Healing brains, wired for survival rather than educational and social-emotional success, require patterned and repetitive experiences of...
by Nathan Swaringen, LCSW | Jan 24, 2020 | Community, Trauma-informed
In November, It’s About T.I.M.E. (Trauma Informed Movement in Education) consultants Nathan Swaringen, LCSW and Stevie McBride, LMFT arrived in Denver, Colorado to attend Beyond Consequences Institute’s Trauma Informed School Conference. Educators, clinicians and...
by Nathan Swaringen, LCSW | Nov 22, 2019 | Community, Trauma-informed
This November 20, I celebrated my fortieth birthday. Only this year, something was missing; something I usually dreaded, but now in hindsight, utterly took for granted. Every year on my birthday, I’d inevitably receive a phone call with the caller-ID, “Grami.” I knew...
