by Amy Tiemann | May 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
After my years of experience working in a neuroscience lab, I honed a keen sense of curiosity about brain development, and a research-backed belief that positive childhood experiences are very important. My work on child abuse prevention actually comes full circle...
by Amy Tiemann | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
In 2000 when my family moved from California to North Carolina, and I felt like I had been put into a witness protection program. We chose to make a 6-month stay permanent, but this huge change made me feel even isolated as a stay-at-home Mom than I already was. On...
by Amy Tiemann | May 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
After being a teacher and becoming a mother, I thought about my high school students and how I would have liked to have reached them earlier to teach them about personal safety. I wanted to work with younger kids, then younger, and then thought I’d really like to...
by Amy Tiemann | May 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Four key experiences made me who I am now and led me to my latest work. I graduated from Stanford’s neurosciences program in 1996 knowing that lab research was not the right path for me. I had that insight part-way through graduate school, and I was smart enough to...
by Amy Tiemann | May 10, 2018 | Uncategorized
Welcome to my new “Amy Tiemann, PhD in Life” blog. The internet has changed a lot since I started blogging back in 2003 as “Mojo Mom.” It’s hard to look back that far now, but in 2003 there was no YouTube, Skype, Twitter, podcasting, smart phones, or social media!...