By Sylvie Griffiths: The last time I went camping was about 1988. I was ten years old and I accompanied my best friend and her family to a natural spring here in Florida. We camped in a camper, which I have recently learned, is a bit easier than tent camping,...
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Keeping the Kids Safe
By Sylvie Griffiths: “I am afraid to go to school Mommy,” my youngest told me with a tear-streaked face. He had been complaining of a stomach ache every night since the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Even though I know someone directly affected, I had tried my...
#Love for Prevention
A Message from the Turnaround Team Turnaround Life’s February campaign is from the heart. February 17th is National Random Acts of Kindness Day. This special day is celebrated nationally to encourage a random act of kindness or a selfless act performed by individuals to help, support, or cheer up a...
Turning Points: Parenting a Transgender Child Part 2
By Sylvie Griffiths: When you are raising a child you always have some turning points while parenting. Decent grades turn below average and a new crowd of sketchy friends is joined. Puberty, which is enough to get its own sentence! There are so many times, basically, that our kids surprise...
Acceptance: Parenting a Transgender Child
By Sylvie Griffiths: I am certain all parents have anxiety, to some extent, when it comes to their children (fur babies count as well). The stereotypical “worrying mom” is me. It took me years to admit this out loud and I have come to accept there should not be shame...
Each Day Provides an Opportunity to Turn Lives Around
By Jackie Sue Griffin, MBA, MS, BA: The New Year celebration is a wonderful time to reflect on our core spiritual values that shape our humanity. Have you ever asked yourself, “How will I be remembered?” At Turnaround Life, we celebrate our core values through living by power of example,...
Starting Over with Empowerment
By Sylvie Griffiths: Going back to school 12 years after completing half of my undergraduate studies was not an easy endeavor. To say things had changed since my last attempt at college would be an understatement. My first day of classes as a junior at a major university was almost...
Living with Mental Illness
By Sylvie Griffiths: “It might cause a systemic rash.” These were the words my newish psychiatrist was using to describe possible side effects of my new medications she prescribed for me to take daily. She had just told me that I could be within the bipolar spectrum; news I could...
Resiliency: Around the holidays – ways to cope with stressful gatherings
By Jane Smiley When I hear people say how excited they are for the holidays, my body goes through a roller coaster. I want to be excited as well, but because of years of traumatic events surrounding my family and the holidays, I just am left with a pit in...
Resiliency: How gratitude and being grateful are pillars to being resilient
How gratitude and being grateful are pillars to being resilient By Jane Smiley As the mother of a wonderfully smart and inquisitive little girl, who sometimes overindulges in her only child, I often make it a point to talk to her about being thankful and grateful. In addition to our...