Family Life Counselling - Denise Horwood

10/06/2022

What helps you when you are feeling overwhelmed?

09/06/2022

⭐️Teaching our children boundaries is so important. ⭐️

mamapsychologists

05/06/2022

💗 Synergetic Play Therapy Institute

26/05/2022

Sketches in Stillness

26/05/2022

Co-regulation, what exactly does it look like?

25/05/2022

A Mighty Girl

A Mighty Girl Pick of the Day: "What to Do When the News Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Understanding Current Events." Whether from TV news reports, the car radio, social media, or discussions by adults or their peers, children are often bombarded with information about the world around them. And even when the adults in their life try to shelter them from frightening news, kids are often exposed to far more of it than parents may realize. With many of the leading news stories focused on disturbing or scary events such as mass shootings, wars, extreme weather events, disease outbreaks, or more dispersed threats such as climate change, children can become frightened and overwhelmed.

Fortunately, parents can help kids put scary events into perspective and learn how to understand and process the messages they hear with the help of this new addition to the bestselling What-To-Do series. It will also help kids become more informed consumers of media by introducing them to media techniques such as reporters' efforts to add excitement to stories which may also make threats seem more imminent and extreme. And if kids start to worry or become anxious about things they've heard, the guide shares tips on how kids can feel calmer and more in control. Hands-on and interactive, it encourages kids to respond to what they are learning by writing down their thoughts or drawing pictures in guided activity sections. This new guide is an invaluable resource for kids growing up in a world that can often feel awash in upsetting news. Highly recommended for ages 6 to 12.

"What to Do When the News Scares You" is available at https://www.amightygirl.com/what-to-do-news-scares-you

Dawn Huebner has also released a similar book for kids 6 to 12, "Something Bad Happened: A Kid's Guide to Coping With Events in the News," at https://amzn.to/3lEjJFV

For parents and educators, there's an excellent guide filled with conversation scripts and tips on helping kids feel calm in an anxious world, "When the World Feels Like a Scary Place" at https://www.amightygirl.com/world-scary-place

For a simple yet powerful picture book that reassures kids that the world is filled with helpful and friendly people -- and serves as a counterpoint to scary news stories -- check out "Most People" for ages 4 to 7 at https://amzn.to/3wKwNzL

For a few helpful books for younger kids on coping with worries, we recommend "The Don't Worry Book" for ages 3 to 5 (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-don-t-worry-book), "Ruby Finds A Worry" for ages 4 to 7 (https://www.amightygirl.com/ruby-finds-a-worry), and "The Whatifs" for ages 4 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-whatifs),

For older kids, we recommend "What To Do When You Worry Too Much" for ages 6 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/when-you-worry-too-much), "Outsmarting Worry" for ages 9 to 13 (https://www.amightygirl.com/outsmarting-worry), and "The Anxiety Workbook for Teens" for ages 13 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/the-anxiety-workbook-for-teens)

For more books to help kids of all ages manage their worries, visit our blog post "25 Books to Help Kids Overcome Anxiety, Worry, and Fear" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=22612

20/05/2022

Yes it's really hard.
Like absurdly hard.
To meet your child's dysregulation with co-regulation.

It's a little easier when they are teeny tiny babies.

It's easier not to take crying personally.

It's easier not to be terrified for their future.

It's easier to see crying for what it is. An expression of the distress in their nervous system.

Lying, stealing, tantrumming, hitting, spitting, cussing, yelling, peeing in weird places...

Those are all expression of the distress in their nervous system.

The distress needs co-regulation (not CALM! and definitely not no boundaries!!!).

And yes. Offering co-regulation to your dysregulated child will feel like trying to hold a ball of fire in your hands instead of reaching for the fire extinguisher and just putting it out.

It's really hard.

We can do hard things 🙂 Sometimes.

Robyn Gobbel - Attachment, Trauma, & Adoption

20/05/2022

If you are a parent, grandparent, foster parent or anyone who is parenting and you are wanting to understand your childs behaviour, then this is a great start point!

Here is a collection of resources and information from Robyn Gobbel - Attachment, Trauma, & Adoption all about regulation.

Yesterday's post generated a lot of questions!!

If you're new(er) to the intersection of the nervous system, behaviors, and trauma, here a resource page with a suggested road-map for where to start with everything on my website.

I'd start with "What Behavioral Really Is" masterclass and then go through the podcasts!

Here's a link to a PDF which means the links will be clickable:https://robyngobbel.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Free-Parent-Resources.pdf

20/05/2022

✅ Everything we thought we understood about behavior is wrong.

✅ Behavior is just what we SEE that gives us some clues about what's happening on the inside.

Robyn Gobbel - Attachment, Trauma, & Adoption

27/04/2022

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Repair is a non-punishment action you can use that offers a lot of benefits. You just have to model the behavior so your kids can start using it.

22/04/2022

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21/04/2022

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