The Paradox of Parenting
Kira Roerig, a Family Therapist at Anasazi Foundation, talks about the “paradox of parenting” and how parents can best help their children. Transcript of The Paradox of Parenting: When a child is really struggling, parents often wonder: ‘Am I good enough? Am I doing enough as a parent?’ And I think, one of the great paradoxes of parenting is that your influence as a parent matters so much and yet, at the same time, no matter what you do—even if you are the perfect parent—you may or may not be able to—your child may not change in a way that you’re hoping, or at least in the timing that you’re hoping. And often the journey is a lot longer than we hope to see some of those changes come. It’s a little bit like a seed. We talk at Anasazi a lot about Seeds of Greatness. We feel like our…
The Legend of the Moccasins
Kira Roerig, a Family Therapist at Anasazi Foundation, shares the Native American legend of the moccasins and talks about the importance of parents allowing their children to have their own journey. Transcript of The Legend of the Moccasins: So, something that I often share with parents: there’s this old Native American story about a father and a son. And, in this story, the son is walking about the face of the earth. And he’s stepping on rocks and things that are pokey and prickly and thistles and thorns. And so, this loving father, out of love for his son, covers the earth with leather to help his son’s journey. And, as his son goes on, walking about the face of the earth, he continues to get poked and pricked by the thistles and thorns and so the father lays more leather over the earth. And then, eventually, the father realized…
What Is Wilderness Therapy?
Kira Roerig, a Family Therapist at Anasazi Foundation, talks about wilderness therapy and why it is so effective at helping individuals heal. LEARN more about Anasazi Foundation. READ The Seven Paths. TRANSCRIPT of Video: At Anasazi, we use a wilderness therapy approach where, basically, nature is sort of one of the “teachers,” one of the main teachers of the children who come through the program. So, one of the reasons that we feel like wilderness therapy is so effective is because we often say that it’s an opportunity to disconnect. It’s a chance for kids to disconnect from their friends back home that might be, kind of a challenge, or an opportunity to disconnect from social media, or video games, or pornography—whatever is going on in their lives that’s challenging—and then, but really, more than just an opportunity to disconnect, it’s an opportunity to reconnect. So, they get to go…