Grief and loss is a process that, unfortunately, everyone goes through. This is a phenomenon that has crept into my life just recently, but as an outsider looking in. My…
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Based on Brene Brown’s research empathy is the key component in fighting shame. The majority of the girls I work with have shame-prone thinking. Shame-prone thinking is highly correlated with…
If your child is engaging in risky behaviors as a parent who loves them, you naturally want them to change their behavior to be safer. You coax, bribe, lecture, and…
Staff Spotlight Charli has been changing lives at Sunrise for 4 years and is an incredible asset to our team. She’s an innovator, motivator, high-achiever, life changer and a wonderful…
We’d like to start a new series spotlighting the integral members of our team here at Sunrise. We know that without each of the member of our team, we could…
Understanding Boundaries Cows are funny creatures. When a cow is initially placed in an enclosed pasture, for the first few weeks the cows will stick to the perimeter of the…
Stress. Modern life. The two have almost become synonymous. It seems everywhere we go and everywhere we turn in life today there are more stressors ready to pile on our…
It can be hard to know how to communicate with your teenage daughter. This is especially true if your teenage daughter is struggling emotionally or behaviorally. When this happens it…
Empathic Listening is defined as an active process to discern what a person is saying. We know that lasting change comes through relationship based treatment. Empathic listening is an essential…
Students come to Sunrise with a variety of struggles: anxiety, depression, self-harm, substance abuse, defiance. However, for many of our students all of these issues are related to the same…
