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Tips for Locating an Allergy-Informed Counseling Provider

July 12, 2019  |  Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotions, Epinephrine, FAACT, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Healthcare, Know-The-FAACTs, Parent, Patient, Pediatrician, Psych, Self-Care, Support, Teens, Tips

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC You realize your anxiety levels are rising to a level that impacts your daily life, and nothing you're doing seems to be helping. An anaphylactic reaction occurs, and now you can't stop

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Helping Kids with Food Allergies Build Self-Esteem

June 21, 2019  |  Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Know-The-FAACTs, Medication, Parent, Patient, Psych, Risk-taking, Safety-Tips, School, Self-Care, Support

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC We're all familiar with the term self-esteem, but it can be hard to describe it in a concrete manner.  In the simplest of terms, self-esteem is a positive sense of

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Food Allergy Anxiety in Kids - 5 Tips for Parents

April 15, 2019  |  Adolescents, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Family, Food, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Know-The-FAACTs, Medication, Mom, Support, Teens

by Tamara Hubbard, MA, LCPC Those of us who are food allergy-knowledgeable licensed behavioral healthcare providers will inevitably get calls from parents seeking guidance on helping their child with food

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Navigating Food Allergy Tragedies

March 12, 2019  |  Adolescents, Adults, Advocacy, Allergies, Allergy, Allergy-Awareness, Anaphylaxis, Awareness, Behavior, Blog, Caregivers, Children, Education, Emotional, Emotions, Epinephrine, Family, Food-Allergies, Food-Allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Grandparent, Know-The-FAACTs, Label, Medic-Alert, Medications, Self-Care, Support

Another food allergy-related tragedy recently populated our social media feeds. This story involved a teenage boy, all set to graduate high school, but suffered an anaphylactic reaction to walnuts days before

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Risk-Taking and Teens with Food Allergies

Risk-Taking and Teens with Food Allergies

September 6, 2017  |  Action-plan, Adolescents, Advocacy, Allergy, Allergy-awareness, Anaphylaxis, Anaphylaxis-action-plan, Awareness, Back-to-school, Behavior, Blog, Board-certified-allergist, Civil-rights, Education, Epinephrine, Food-allergies, Food-allergy, Food-allergy-blog, Know-the-faacts, Medic-alert, Medical-alert-id, Medical-id, Medication, Medications, Patient, Readlabels, Research, Risk, Risk-taking, Self-care, Support, Teens

by Tiffany deSilva, MSW, LSW When you were a teenager, did your mother ever ask you the age-old question, “If all of your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump, too?” If adolescents answered this

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