Dr. Renee's Tips to Trick Your brain to Keep New Years Resolutions

7 Quick Tips to Trick and Train your Brain to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
By: Dr. Renee Clauselle Imagination-Cafe Blog

Only less than 10% of us will keep our New Year’s resolutions, so how can we break bad habits and replace them with new ones? And stick to them? “Train your Brain,” says psychologist [...]

Teaching Gratitude to our Children for the Holiday Season

With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, celebrating gratitude is easy to remember.  But what about when it’s not Thanksgiving and it’s just an ordinary day?  What part does gratitude play in our lives then?

As we sit in front of our turkey dinner, we may feel grateful for a variety of things: a happy family, robust health, a [...]

Organizational Strategies for Your Children — and You!

It is Back-to-School Time and Dr. Renee has tips to get you ready. For most, staying organized helps to reduce stress as well as build focus and increase task completion. Here are seven tips for staying organized that will work great for both you and your children:
1) Everything has a home.
a. Put items like keys, [...]

Are Social Media Sites Making Us All Self-Promoting Narcissists?

How many times did you tweet today or check your Facebook page? What about your latest YouTube video? Why do we enjoy reality shows like “Real Housewives,” watching those who are self-absorbed? What happened to the story writers and sitcoms with stories that have meaning or a moral? These were the questions asked by researchers [...]

Trick your Brain to Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions

Why do we make New Year’s resolutions?  It is usually about breaking old habits that no longer serve us and creating new, better habits. To do this successfully, we need to understand what is a habit and the neuroscience behind making habits.

A habit is a behavior that is performed so routinely that it becomes almost [...]