Dr. MacDonald speaks on topics for parents, teachers, and business and medical professionals.
Recent lectures:
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Touchy Topics: A better way to talk to your kids about sex, scary stuff, and peer stresses​​
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Her presentations also include:
FOR PROFESSIONALS:
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Is it Me or is it Him? Self-Awareness in Professional Relationships
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A Healer's Heart: Work-Life Balance for Doctors
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Being Captain Winters: What WWII and Tom Hanks can teach us about leadership
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I’m a Dancer: Developing a healthy identity in the world of dance
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Resolving Conflict
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Communication
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Motivation: Why are people the way they are?
FOR PARENTS:
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​Nurture and Socialize: The heart and soul of parenting through the lifespan
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The Top Ten Mistakes Even Really good Parents Make
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The Top Ten Best Things You Can Do For Your Children
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The Parenting Pyramid: Building a Foundation for Thriving
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Respect: Where did it go and how can I get it back?!
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Home Supplies: What kids need to succeed and thrive
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Parenting Your School-Aged Child
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What Children Need: The care and feeding of very young children
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Talking to Kids about Sex
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The Mother-Daughter Relationship
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Your Adolescent: loving, leading, and letting go
FOR EVERYONE:
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Self-Responsibility: Why is it so hard when self-blame and excuses are so easy?
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Dr. Amy’s Guide to Good Relationships in 5 Easy Steps (even if you’ve been hurt in love before)
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Recovering from a Painful Childhood (so it doesn’t keep messing up your life now.)
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Forgiveness: How to be OK when what happened wasn’t OK
FOR TEACHERS;
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Parent-Teacher Communication
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Everyday Psychology for Teachers
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The Noble Profession: Understanding stress, burn-out, and reward in teaching
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Give it to Me Now! Entitlement in schools
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FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH:
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Talking to kids about God
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Where Are You, God? Accessing spiritual resources during a crisis
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It happens and God Loves You: Finding faith when you don’t believe what everyone else believes
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Hope and Faith
FOR COUPLES;
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The Healthy Marriage: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion
FOR WOMEN;
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Women, Food, and Sex: Understanding Women’s Hungers