How to Use Halloween Fears to Build Confidence in Your Kids

Available for Interviews:  Nadine Levitt

Nadine Levitt is an education advocate, speaker, and the CEO & Founder of WURRLYedu, an educational technology platform. Nadine specializes in the social-emotional curriculum (SEL), and she is also the author of the children’s book, My Mama Says Inside Me Lives a Village. 

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The Opportunity of Halloween to Help Kids Build Confidence
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    • Halloween can be a scary time for kids, imaginations are vivid and there is little distinction between reality and fiction—especially when the world suddenly changes into a horror landscape!
    • But Halloween can also provide a fabulous opportunity to talk about fear, and what it does to other emotions. It is also a great time to distinguish the line between what is real and what is not, and shift the power back into their hands through creativity!  

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5 Simple Mindfulness Tips That Can Give Us More Peace

Available for Interviews:  Julie DeLucca-Collins

Julie DeLucca-Collins shows people how to create simple habits and go from overwhelm to self-doubt to having more peace, purpose, power,  passion, and prosperity. She is the author of Confident You: Simple Habits to Live the Life You Have Imagined.

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Incorporating Mindfulness Into Our Everyday Lives:

Mindfulness is a way to be open and aware of what is happening in the moment—being present both internally and externally. Mindfulness has been shown to improve relationship satisfaction, reduce stress in relationships, and increase empathy. Mindful practices can also help reduce internal stress and anxiety. 

Here are 5 simple mindfulness tips that we can all incorporate into our everyday lives:

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Last-Minute (Digital) Gift Ideas for Everyone on Your Shopping List

Available for Interviews: Trae Bodge

Trae Bodge (“True Trae”) is a national shopping expert, brand strategist, and lifestyle journalist sharing smart shopping tips with consumers on TV, radio, & online publications..

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Last-Minute Gift Ideas:
 

Here’s a broad selection of gifts that can all be given digitally:

Never Fear, Procrastinators!
There’s Still Time

Do you still have people to check off your list? Even this late in the game, there are fantastic gifts you can give that your loved ones will adore. Trae Bodge, Smart Shopping Expert at Truetrae.com is here to share gifts that you can order and deliver in minutes!

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3 Steps to Coping When You Can’t See Family for the Holidays

Available for Interviews: Dr. Colleen Cira:

Dr. Colleen Cira is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women and Trauma, and has worked with hundreds of people struggling with mental health issues.

 

Talking Points from Dr. Cira On Coping Steps
When You Can’t See Your Family for the Holidays

What we’re talking about here is the importance of boundaries. That’s what it means to tell your family that you can’t see them for the Holidays. You are setting a boundary with them. And while it can be normal to feel guilty when you feel like you’re disappointing someone, the degree to which you feel guilt can be helpful data about how comfortable you are setting boundaries. Here are some helpful tips for managing that guilt (and flexing your boundary muscle):

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5 Healthy Tips to Handle Holiday Stress

Available for Interviews: Dr. Alice Fong

Alice Fong, ND, is an integrative naturopathic doctor specializing in stress, integrative medicine, diet & weight loss, and is a business growth consultant for holistic healthcare providers.

 

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Healthy Tips to Handle Holiday Stress:

The holidays are usually a wonderful time of year to spend with family, eat delicious food, put up bright lights and decorations, and engage in fun and festivities. Normally we might be experiencing the stress of traveling, shopping, cooking, and even spending too much time with family. However, this year comes with a pandemic reality and everyone is affected in some way shape or form. Then, for many the dark, gloomy weather isn’t exactly helpful in getting one into the holiday spirit. If the holiday season isn’t all full of joy, cheer, and laughter this year, you might want to consider these helpful tips to get you through the end of the year and through the winter:

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A New Weapon to Fight Covid During Holiday Travel

Available for Interviews: Leonard Butterman

Leonard Butterman is the President of BioSafe Gloves, LLC. Right now we have face masks and rubber gloves for safety but there’s a big problem. Neither kills viruses. In fact, the gloves people use now just move viruses and bacteria around. There is a new tool on the market, BioSafe Gloves. These gloves kill viruses.

[Full News Release]

What Leonard Butterman can say in an interview:

Now is not the time to relax your preventative measures during this second wave and busy Holiday travel. Even though people are “Covid weary,” you still need to fight and keep your guard up. 

BioSafe Gloves is a new product that kills viruses [see news release].

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Going Digital: The Millennials Choice for Last-Minute Shopping

Available for Interviews: Trae Bodge

Trae Bodge (“True Trae”) is a national shopping expert, brand strategist, and lifestyle journalist sharing smart shopping tips with consumers on TV, radio, & online publications.

Trae Bodge can offer some terrific last-minute gift ideas as well as talk about how the millennials are doing their smart shopping this year.

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Millennials & Digital Gift Giving:
 

Because of the pandemic everything surrounding the holiday season will be unlike anything any of us have experienced before. Although millions of people enjoy in-person shopping, not only is it less safe this year because of the pandemic, we are literally running out of time to get our gifts out. We are in the middle of Hanukkah and Christmas is right around the corner. It would be a smart choice to avoid the frenzy altogether, keep safe—and get our gifts to the people we care about on time. Millennials are instead opting for digital gift giving:

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5 Tips on Safe Gift Giving in the Year of COVID

Available for Interviews: Dr. Tammy Penhollow

Dr. Tammy Penhollow is a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, specializing in anesthesiology, pain management, and regenerative medicine. Having over 20 years of experience has helped her to cultivate a passion for regenerative medicine and holistic healing. Dr. Penhollow practices at Precision Regenerative Medicine in the greater Phoenix area.

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Safe Holiday Gift Giving:

1) Shop early. If you’re planning on shipping the gift, shop early and plan ahead. Given the ongoing slowing of multiple shipping options including FedEx, UPS, and the USPS, adding 10-14 days to the estimated delivery time is important to reduce the chances that your gift package will arrive after the holiday.

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Worried About Shipping Delays? We’ve Got You Covered

Available for Interviews: Trae Bodge

Trae Bodge (“True Trae”) is a shopping expert and the national spokesperson for GiftYa, which is an exciting, new way to send gifts to the people we care about. GiftYa is like the Venmo of Gifting. Sending Gift Cards, are old, impersonal, and out-dated. Sending GiftYa by text is new, exciting, can be personalized, can never be lost, and wont lose value.

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Digital Gift Giving:

  • The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and we’re hearing rumblings of shipping delays.
  • No big surprise after online shopping surged over 20% on Black Friday—historically an in-store shopping day! 

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Coping With the Holidays During the Year of COVID

Interview with Dr. Colleen Cira:

Dr. Colleen Cira is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women and Trauma, and has worked with hundreds of people struggling with mental health issues.

There is a lot going on in terms of Psychophysiology when trauma is being felt—or in other words, our brains affect our body and visa versa. This information is imperative when it comes to learning how to calm our bodies and re-regulate our nervous system.

Talking Points from Dr. Cira
On Political Anxiety:

Holiday stress is common this time of year, but this year’s pandemic have made the holidays particularly challenging to our mental health—concerns for our health and the health of those we love, feelings of loneliness with less social interactions, not being to enjoy in-person shopping as much by avoiding large crowds, little to none of the holiday parties with our family or colleagues that we typically enjoy this special time of year, etc. Here a few tips for better managing your emotional health, always, and especially during the Holidays.

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