Welcome to our site! Let me introduce myself. I am Sister Theresa Marie Elitz. I am a professional mental health and chemical dependency counselor. I am also bilingual. I speak Spanish and English, and so does all my staff.
I had a fair amount of parents coming to me asking me for services to help their children who had ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). One day I received a brochure in the mail from a therapist named Howard Glasser. Howie (as his friends know him) was a therapist who had ADHD as a child. When he became a counselor for children, he came up with his own approach, and found it highly successful. He originally called it the Nurtured Heart Approach. The children didn’t even have to use medications! Yet, both parents and children were happy with the results they found from his approach. I was interested. I went to one of his workshops and was sold on the idea.
I came back from the workshop bubbling with enthusiasm! I introduced the parents who came to me to the approach. They were having great success with it and wanted to share it with others. We started classes with the parents themselves giving the classes. Again, it was highly successful. The parents wanted some kind of follow-up, but were too busy to come to support groups.
Then, the Spanish version of energyparenting.com was created. In Spanish we call it Corazon Alimentado, because it is a heart to heart approach. It can be found on the web under energyparenting.com. If you want the Spanish version, just click on “en español.”
Children who are raised with these methods make good choices in life. It has been shown that they stay away from drugs, make wiser choices in choosing friends, say “no” to gangs. When it has been used in the juvenile detention system, recidivism decreased. We also have had some success using it with persons addicted to drugs and alcohol, and are now trying to use it in the adult world to improve relationships, and address a number of mental health and addiction problems.
My staff and I would like your comments as you read this blog. Any ideas you have for our classes, the website, or this blog, would be greatly appreciated. We would be glad to answer your questions. We want to know what you are interested in. You can contact us at corazonalimentado.com. Welcome aboard!
I had a fair amount of parents coming to me asking me for services to help their children who had ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). One day I received a brochure in the mail from a therapist named Howard Glasser. Howie (as his friends know him) was a therapist who had ADHD as a child. When he became a counselor for children, he came up with his own approach, and found it highly successful. He originally called it the Nurtured Heart Approach. The children didn’t even have to use medications! Yet, both parents and children were happy with the results they found from his approach. I was interested. I went to one of his workshops and was sold on the idea.
I came back from the workshop bubbling with enthusiasm! I introduced the parents who came to me to the approach. They were having great success with it and wanted to share it with others. We started classes with the parents themselves giving the classes. Again, it was highly successful. The parents wanted some kind of follow-up, but were too busy to come to support groups.
Then, the Spanish version of energyparenting.com was created. In Spanish we call it Corazon Alimentado, because it is a heart to heart approach. It can be found on the web under energyparenting.com. If you want the Spanish version, just click on “en español.”
Children who are raised with these methods make good choices in life. It has been shown that they stay away from drugs, make wiser choices in choosing friends, say “no” to gangs. When it has been used in the juvenile detention system, recidivism decreased. We also have had some success using it with persons addicted to drugs and alcohol, and are now trying to use it in the adult world to improve relationships, and address a number of mental health and addiction problems.
My staff and I would like your comments as you read this blog. Any ideas you have for our classes, the website, or this blog, would be greatly appreciated. We would be glad to answer your questions. We want to know what you are interested in. You can contact us at corazonalimentado.com. Welcome aboard!
